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2008 Reports and Papers
Fresh Approaches to Communication Between Companies and Their Shareholders
The Business Council of Australia has released a discussion paper outlining a number of new approaches Australia’s listed companies might adopt to strengthen or improve their communication and interaction with shareholders. The paper, Fresh Approaches to Communication Between Companies and...
Beyond the Horizon: Short-Termism in Australia
21 October 2004 The Business Council of Australia has called on federal and state governments and the private sector to consider a range of measures to counteract excessive short-termism in Australia. The recommendations are part of a BCA paper, Beyond...
CEO Turnover in 2003: Governance and Succession Planning
23 November 2004 Although the rate of CEO turnover in Australia declined in the past year, local CEOs are more likely to leave their jobs because of poor performance than their global counterparts, according to a study by international management...
Expanding the Possibilities: A Vision for a Prosperous and Sustainable Australia
December 2004 This draft document was prepared by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) for discussion by BCA Sustainable Growth Task Force. The contents do not represent BCA policy.
Anticipating Success
7 April 2008 BCA President Greig Gailey has challenged the Australia 2020 Summit to be the catalyst for articulating a new bold, collective vision for the nation. Launching the BCA’s submission to the summit, titled Anticipating Success, Mr Gailey said...
Engaging our Potential: A Checklist to Reduce Barriers to Workforce Participation
4 April 2008 Over the next twenty years Australia will face the dual challenge, arising from the ageing of the population, of an increasing number of dependants against its declining taxpaying workforce. Both issues demonstrate the new opportunities and challenges...
Towards a Seamless Economy
17 March 2008 Australia’s state and federal governments must attack the growing tangle of business red tape and put in place a single, seamless set of rules for all businesses by 2010. Regulatory fragmentation creates a range of unnecessary burdens...
BCA Budget Submission 2008–09: Budgeting for Prosperity
24 February 2008 There is a real opportunity and challenge for the new federal government to undertake major fiscal reforms in the 2008–09 federal Budget to pave the way for greater future prosperity, Business Council of Australia President, Greig Gailey,...
A Charter for New Federalism
18 December 2007 The BCA has launched a charter that it argues should be adopted by the Council of Australian Governments as a key first step to improving Australia’s dysfunctional system of federal–state relations and delivering a revitalised national reform agenda. ...
Research and Development Investment by Australia’s Leading Businesses
13 December 2004 Business innovation is the result of a range of commercial and business strategies and not just R&D spend, a survey of BCA Members has found. The report showed that process adaptation, applications of new technologies and capital...