MELBOURNE, Australia – Australia's medical device regulations are undergoing the most extensive changes to the regulations in the last three decades, a top Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) official told the AusMedTech conference. That revolutionary rate of change, however, ground to a halt in the last five weeks leading up to the country's national election, with the government now in "caretaker mode," TGA Health Products Regulation Group Deputy Secretary John Skerritt said.