The Australian By Katie Lahey Chief Executive Business Council of Australia Latest Treasury figures this week showing company tax receipts continuing to climb and underpinning yet another healthy surplus might suggest this is as good as it gets for...
The Australian By Michael Chaney President Business Council of Australia It takes a very significant risk to the economy for business groups representing the smallest of enterprises through to our biggest and most successful companies to band together to express...
The Age By Glen Boreham CEO and Managing Director IBM Australia and New Zealand A quarter of a century ago, Australians made a pact to reinvent their economy, from one that was insular and protected to one adept at embracing...
The Courier-Mail By Katie Lahey Chief Executive Business Council of Australia Recent heavy rains across much of the east coast of Australia have brought welcome relief for many farmers and urban residents. Water catchments in many parts of rural and...
The Australian Financial Review By Geoff Allen Chairman, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs Late last year Harvard management guru Michael Porter breathlessly proposed to a Sydney business audience “a new way to look at business and society”. This was, he...
The Australian Financial Review By Rod Sims Director Port Jackson Partners Limited All Australian businesses now need to plan on a future with emissions trading, which will be a fundamental change for many of them. The federal government and opposition,...
By Katie Lahey Chief Executive Business Council of Australia The Prime Minister’s announcement that Australia will establish a comprehensive ‘cap-and-trade’ emissions trading scheme by no later than 2012 poses an important question: what are the necessary steps for government...
The Courier-Mail By Katie Lahey Chief Executive Business Council of Australia An unlikely political consensus has been delivered following the announcement by Prime Minister John Howard last weekend that the federal government would put in place an Australian ‘cap-and-trade’ emissions...
The Age By Rod Pearse CEO, Boral Limited Chairman, BCA Sustainable Growth Task Force These days, few doubt the imperative to tackle climate change. In addition to its considerable environmental impact, climate change poses risks to the market and economy that...
The Courier-Mail By Michael Chaney President Business Council of Australia This year’s federal election will be one of the most important in many years in determining the direction of the country's future. Policies outlined will bind future governments to critical...