The Business Council of Australia today launched a roadmap for infrastructure reform to address current and future challenges faced by the Australian economy to maintaining and building on prosperity. Infrastructure: Roadmap for Reform, developed for the BCA by Rod Sims...
The BCA strongly backs the Owen Inquiry’s key recommendation for the New South Wales Government to divest itself from ownership of the state’s retail and generation sectors. The BCA also supports the Owen Inquiry’s finding that unless retail and generation...
The BCA today warned that the introduction into the Senate of new predatory pricing amendments to trade practices laws ran the risk of significant impacts on business competition and for consumers. “The introduction of these changes to the Bill at...
The Business Council of Australia has welcomed the establishment today of an Australia–China CEO Roundtable. A memorandum of understanding setting out the arrangements for the Australia-China CEO Roundtable was signed by the Hon. Alexander Downer MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and...
The BCA acknowledges changes to the ALP’s workplace relations policy are an important first step in recognising the needs of a flexible workplace relations system for a modern economy. Nevertheless, there remain significant shortfalls in both the policy and practical...
Too many young Australians are being left behind by our school education system, a discussion paper released today by the Business Council of Australia has found. The paper highlights that Australia is at risk of falling behind countries such as...
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Big and small business have taken the unprecedented step of launching an advertising campaign to highlight the benefits of workplace reform and the costs of turning the clock back on this key driver of future prosperity. The alliance of business...
Australia needs to undertake a fundamental policy rethink on how to improve its flagging performance in services exports, according to a new discussion paper released today by the Business Council of Australia. The paper, Underserviced: Why Australia’s Services Economy Deserves...
Policies needed to sustain Australia’s current prosperity, and in particular the benefits of maintaining a flexible workplace relations system, will be the focus of any potential advertising program by the Business Council of Australia, the BCA said today. BCA President,...