Malcolm Turnbull resorts to a ready metaphor - "it's a bit like knocking the barnacles off your boat" - when it comes to describing progress towards an Australasian single economic market. "When business says there is some obstacles and some regulations where we can improve things ... let's just keep fine-tuning." Forging a single economic market between New Zealand and Australia is "getting closer" he says. In a Herald interview he cites the mutual recognition agreement of the Australian Trusted Trader programme and the NZ Secure Exports Scheme which will strip out compliance costs and increase efficiency for ... (full story)