Tax Burden’s a Barrier to Competition
Herald Sun, 16 December 2006: Business tax reform is central to economic competitiveness, Katie Lahey argues.
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Paying the Price for a Tiered System
The Courier-Mail, 4 December 2006: Our federation can be a co-operative or a takeover, writes Michael Chaney.
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Collaborate to Compete
Business Review Weekly, 30 November 2006: Steve Vamos explains why Australia must recognise and elevate innovation to a national priority.
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A New Approach to Innovation Depends on Much Stronger Collaboration
www.theage.com.au, 22 November 2006: Innovation capabilities will help Australia maximise the contribution of its people to economic and social progress and prosperity, writes Steve Vamos.
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Act Together or Kiss the Federation Goodbye
The Australian Financial Review, 22 November 2006: Michael Chaney argues that for co-operative federalism to work, we actually need co-operation.
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Services the Key to China FTA
The Age, 20 November 2006: Bringing down barriers to exporting know-how is vital for our future, writes John Denton.
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Prosperous Australians Reach for the Stars
The Age, 26 October 2006: There is an emerging shift in the community – a shift that brings the potential to lift the nation to a new trajectory of economic growth and community achievement – providing it's recognised and nurtured.
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Folly to Shackle Growth
The Australian, 19 October 2006: A call by the ACTU last week for a raft of workplace regulations and conditions to be mandated highlights what has become a fundamental debate about the future direction of Australia's economy.
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Water Scarcity Is a Myth
The Australian Financial Review, 18 September 2006: Australia, the driest inhabited continent on Earth, is running out of water so we should cut back our water use and accept that we may have to put the brakes on growth until the rain comes. Right? Wrong.
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Red-Tape Removal Gets Green Light
The Australian Financial Review, 24 August 2006: The BCA applauds the federal government’s decision last week to accept most of the recommendations in the Banks taskforce report on reducing business red tape.
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COAG Must Stay Focused on Its Agenda
The Australian Financial Review, 3 August 2006: The true measure of the sincerity of commitment to the COAG reform agenda will be whether governments agree to be held to account for their reform progress.
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Focus on Big Picture
The Age, 3 August 2006: The interest rates rise should be a timely reminder to cast ahead to the longer term and consider the challenges Australia faces to sustain strong economic growth in the years ahead.
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Three-Step Plan for a Better Federal System
The Canberra Times, 27 July 2006: There is no doubt the federal–state contract is clearly under significant stress and the results are evident in nearly every part of our community.
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Doha Deal Crucial to World Economies
The Age, 21 July 2006: Breaking the Doha Round impasse is the key to reducing poverty and improving the financial health of the world.
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Business Plan to Relieve Red Tape Burden
The Advertiser, 21 July 2006: There is growing evidence that on a broad level, Australia’s ‘contract’ between the Commonwealth and the states has broken down.
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Children of the Contract Revolution
The Age, 13 July 2006: Long-term and coordinated planning is needed by governments to facilitate infrastructure investment on the scale and quality that business and the economy requires to support future growth.
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Make a Federal Case of It
The Australian, 10 July 2006: Will our federal system help Australia advance as a nation and economy in the 21st century, or will federalism continue to be a barrier to sustaining prosperity?
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R&D OK, but There’s Much More to Do in an Innovative Aussie Way
The Canberra Times, 3 July 2006: The ability of Australian businesses to innovate will be crucial to the country's future capacity to compete and prosper.
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Letter from BCA President regarding Workplace Relations Reform
The Age, 1 July 2006: The unions’ campaign against WorkChoices is based on the misleading premise that the legislation is revolutionary in its effect.
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Letter from BCA President regarding Workplace Relations Reform
The Australian Financial Review, 30 June 2006: For the past two years, the Business Council of Australia has advocated the importance of reform in four key areas of the economy to sustain current levels of economic growth into the long term. Workplace relations is one of the four areas.
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Doha Failure a Disservice to All Parties
The Age, 28 June 2006: Europe remains at the heart of blockages within the Doha round of trade negotiations centred on agriculture. At risk is the expansion of international trade in services and industrials.
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Labor Shows Its Lack of Credibility
The Australian Financial Review, 14 June 2006
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Is the AGM Dead?
National Accountant, June/July 2006
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$300 Payment Feels Like a False Step
The Age, 1 June 2006: In some areas, the age-old divide between good policy and good politics is seemingly still alive and well.
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Innovate or Detonate: Let's Talk Turkey
The Age, 26 May 2006
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Reform Must Anticipate Change, Not React To It
The Australian Financial Review, 12 May 2006
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Keeping a Permanent Watch on Australia's Tax System
Lawyers Weekly, 5 May 2006
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Tax Reform Always Work in Progress
The Courier-Mail, 5 May 2006
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Australia's Inevitable Reforms
The Wall Street Journal Asia, 2 May 2006
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Tax Reform Key to Our Future Growth
The West Australian, 28 April 2006
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Complex Tax System Needs Modernising
The Advertiser, 26 April 2006: Bad or outmoded tax policy spreads its way through the economy like a worm in an apple.
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Doha Round: Time for Tough Decisions
Financial Times, 24 April 2006: Unless a breakthrough is achieved in the days ahead, the deadline will lapse and the window of opportunity to conclude the Doha round will close. Business and community interests the world over will suffer.
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R&D's Place in Innovation
The Australian Financial Review, 21 April 2006: Business has a pragmatic view that genuine innovation must result in something that is delivered to and is utilised and valued by businesses, public organisations or consumers, or all three.
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The Need for Corporate Tax Review Is Urgent
internationaltaxreview.com, March 2006: Taxation rates and structures play a fundamental role in providing the right environment for Australian businesses to operate effectively and efficiently, improve productivity and take advantage of market opportunities in an increasingly competitive world.
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Smarten up Our Act on Innovation
The Australian Financial Review, 16 March 2006: Australia needs a new national debate on innovation policy, and not just because of the potential gains innovation can contribute to growth and productivity when the nation’s productivity levels are lagging.
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Action Urged on Crucial Infrastructure
The Australian, 23 March 2006: Implementing a major infrastructure reform program over five years will deliver an extra 2 per cent to GDP a year. But each year’s delay in implementing COAG’s decisions on infrastructure reform will cost about $10 billion in lost growth.
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Please Keep It Much Simpler, Stupid
The Age, 9 March 2006: Society cannot operate without clear and strong rules – but we do not need regulation which is poorly conceived, as it imposes unnecessary costs and restrictions on our community and on business.
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Australia's Prosperity Rides on Tax Revamp
The Age, 28 February 2006: We need faster, better ways to review and improve the tax system before it becomes a barrier to competitiveness and growth, writes Katie Lahey.
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Getting the Measure of Unis’ Output
The Australian Financial Review, 20 February 2006: Research impact is measurable, despite what critics say, and we must include impact measures as well as quality, and recognise that one cannot exist without the other.
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COAG: Standing Still Is Not an Option
The Age, 10 February 2006: We can choose to lock in Australia’s prosperity by moving on a new round of reforms in key areas of the economy, or we can allow the economy to stand still and be overtaken by our competitors.
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Struggling with a Tangle of Red Tape
The Advertiser, 10 February 2006: Red tape diverts valuable time and resources into box-ticking and form-filling. This means energy that should go into growing businesses and employing people is being wasted. Ultimately this means a sluggish, less productive economy.
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Shooting Messenger on Budget Accuracy
The Australian Financial Review, 8 February 2006: No one is suggesting that forecasting national economic outcomes is an easy task; what the BCA is suggesting is that the job can be done better, with less conservatism, to the benefit of politicians considering tax reform.
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COAG's Choice: Foresight or Failure
The Australian Financial Review, 6 February 2006: Failing to address the structural imbalances and underlying barriers to growth now will make inevitable reforms more difficult and less palatable.
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Needed: One Push-Start to Doha Round
The Age, 2 February 2006: Despite delivering great economic benefits over the second half of the 20th century, multilateral trade liberalisation is at this moment in danger of grinding to a halt.
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We Must Act Now on Tax Reform
The Age, 30 January 2006: A fundamental shift in tax policy is needed to lift Australia beyond its currently slowing growth curve.
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The Great Tax Debate – How Should the Government Spend Our Surplus?
The Sunday Herald Sun, 15 January 2006: Australia has a choice. We can do nothing – or we can face the future and our competitors with confidence. A better, more competitive tax system is a big part of meeting that challenge.
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Prosperity Depends on Further Reform
The Australian, 23 January 2006: This year should be remembered as a unique chance for real reform that was fully grasped, not a golden opportunity squandered.
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Business Gets Personal: Why Australian Business Supports Personal Tax Reform
The Tax Policy Journal, 2006
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