Growth Key to Emissions Plan

Business will provide the base for the successful move to a low-emissions economy, argues Greig Gailey in The Age.
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• Australia’s Emissions Trading Scheme: An Opportunity (speech)

Holistic Review Is the Holy Grail

Australia needs a thorough analysis of taxation’s role in the economy, writes Robert Milliner in The Australian Financial Review.
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Region Holds Key to Our Prosperity

A new framework to enable investment in the region is needed, writes John W. H. Denton in The Australian Financial Review.
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Give Our Teachers Lures and Rewards

The present teaching system won’t get top results from teachers or students, writes Katie Lahey in The Age.
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A National Perspective to Benefit All

The renewal of Australia’s infrastructure and reform of infrastructure markets are two of the key challenges the federal government must address, writes Rod Pearse.
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Boldness Will Put Us on Top by 2012

Everything should be on the table when it comes to tax reform, urges Greig Gailey in The Australian.
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Better Education Tops the List

Future prosperity rests on the success of the school system, writes Angus James in The Australian Financial Review.
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We Can Make a Difference in East Asia

There’s a new role for Australia in regional engagement, writes John W. H. Denton in The Australian Financial Review.
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Essential Reform That Time Forgot

From a business perspective, Australia is not one market, it is nine, Greig Gailey writes in The Australian Financial Review.
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• Download the ‘seamless economy’ paper

It’s a Different Economy, Stupid

We need to re-think federal budgets to avoid frittering away our prosperity, argues Greig Gailey in The Australian.
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• BCA Budget Submission 2008–09: Budgeting for Prosperity

Budget Gives the Government a Golden Opportunity to Reform Fiscal Policy

Given the outlook for inflation, strong discipline is needed now, writes Greig Gailey in The Age.
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• BCA Budget Submission 2008–09: Budgeting for Prosperity

Education Overhaul Will Open Door of Opportunity

A comprehensive and co-operative approach is needed to improve learning, Hutch Ranck writes in The Age.
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Unwieldy System Must Go

Op-ed by Tim Cox, PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax Partner, on the need to reform business tax, as published in The Australian Financial Review, 29 November 2007.
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• Tax Nation: Business Taxes and the Federal–State Divide

Stakes Too High To Turn Back

We need to embrace a new round of economic reform, writes Greig Gailey in The Australian.
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• Listen to Greig Gailey discussing the election outcome
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A Time to Improve Social Prosperity

In a real sense, Australia’s hardest economic challenges are just beginning, Katie Lahey writes in the Herald Sun.
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• New Thinking Needed to Find Jobs for Those Who Want Them (news release and paper)

Make Sure We Don’t Waste Our Wealth

The Advertiser, 26 October 2007: In the midst of so much prosperity, it is easy to overlook the many Australians who continue to confront a vastly different reality, Michael Chaney argues.
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• Growing Social Prosperity in a Growth Economy

These Are Good Times, But Not for All

Economic reform must continue so all can join in Australia’s prosperity, writes Michael Chaney in The Age.
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• Growing Social Prosperity in a Growth Economy

Need to Rethink Employment Policy

The Age, 22 October 2007: Australia needs all hands on deck to tackle lower growth prospects, writes Charlie Lenegan.
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• Engaging our Potential: The Economic and Social Necessity of Increasing Workforce Participation

Be Prepared for Emissions Trading

Business cannot afford to sit back and wait for the scheme to start, writes Katie Lahey in The Age.
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Infrastructure Is a Road Half Travelled

World-class infrastructure won’t happen without competitive national markets, rational pricing and more private ownership, op-ed argues.
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• Infrastructure: Roadmap for Reform

Opportunity Too Good to Waste

The Australian Financial Review, 4 September 2007: Enabling investment and trade among its members should be APEC’s top priority, writes John Denton.
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As Business Fills Canberra’s Coffers, We Need to Move on Tax Reforms

The Australian, 24 August 2007: Despite Treasury indicators of a strong economy, this is no time for complacency on tax reform, Katie Lahey argues.
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• Time to Review the Dead Weight of Australia’s Business Taxes (news release)

Injection of Facts into the IR Debate

The Australian, 9 August 2007: By debunking union myths about workplace reform, business groups are fighting a threat to the economy, argues Michael Chaney.
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A Commodity Just Too Valuable to Miss the Export Boat

Australia’s prosperity depends on providing services to the world, writes IBM’s Glen Boreham.
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National Approach to Water

Nature can only do so much to alleviate water shortages; the rest is up to us, writes Katie Lahey in The Courier-Mail.
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The Mutual Benefits of Giving

Geoff Allen of the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs discusses the release of the ACCPA–BCA report, ‘Corporate Community Investment in Australia’ in an op-ed in The Australian Financial Review.
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Willingness Needed to Establish Emissions Trading Scheme

Governments and businesses must work together to establish a national emissions trading scheme, Katie Lahey writes.
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Warming to a Vital Task

A market-based, national emissions trading scheme is key to Australia’s effort to reduce greenhouse gases over the long term, Katie Lahey writes in The Courier-Mail.
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Good Start on Greenhouse Plan

The Australian Financial Review, 4 June 2007: Emissions trading is now a business reality, Rod Sims writes.
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Five-Pronged Approach to Climate Change Challenge

The Age, 11 May 2007: Australia has to protect its economy in the transition to a low-emissions world, writes Rod Pearse.
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The Vote to Secure our Fiscal Future

The Australian, 18 April 2007: Sound reform, not petty politics, will sustain our prosperity, says Michael Chaney.
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Next Election Vital for Future Prosperity

Business puts lifting living standards as the goal of the reform agenda, writes Michael Chaney in The Courier-Mail.
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Australia Must Keep Moving Forward

Australia cannot afford to go backwards on workplace reform, writes Charlie Lenegan.
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Unions Want to Turn Back the Clock

Labour market reforms underpin our prosperity, writes Michael Chaney in The Australian Financial Review.
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The Tax Attack: Governments Hit Companies

There is a compelling case for a major rethink of Australia's business taxation system, Katie Lahey writes.
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Climate Solutions Must Be Genuinely Global

Australia’s economy needs to be strong in a changing world, Michael Chaney writes in the Herald Sun.
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A Blueprint for Preserving Prosperity

In this election year, election policies must be focused on the longer term, Michael Chaney writes in The Australian Financial Review.
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CSR Belongs at the Very Core of Business

We can’t sustain a first-rate economy with a second-rate community, writes Katie Lahey in The Age.
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Doha Round Needs Strong Leadership

International trade reform needs to be given a much higher priority or a vital opportunity to lift economic growth may be lost.
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Official Response to Drought Just Doesn’t Hold Water

Does it make sense for Australia’s major cities to be on long-term water restrictions as a key solution to managing our water requirements?
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Australia’s Golden Opportunity

We can do more to depart from previous economic cycles and lift our living standards further, Michael Chaney writes in The Age.
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