Chairman takes swipe at red tape TRANSFIELD chairman and Wesfarmers director Diane Smith-Gander has criticised the excess regulation of Australian business and Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has claimed the biggest threat to new resource projects is the current "Australian philosophy" on approvals. Backing calls by Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce for a review of regulations in the aviation industry, Ms Smith-Gander said too many Australian regulators took an approach that had more appropriate application in bigger international economies.