Australia has been at the forefront of global market liberalisation in recent years. Market liberalisation has provided Australian enterprises with the opportunity to enter new markets, grow their businesses and contribute to higher levels of domestic growth and higher living...
The BCA has long promoted the need for a national framework for OHS regulation. The key objective of OHS regulation should be to establish an equitable and efficient system that: focuses on the prevention of workplace injury and disease;...
Innovation by Australia’s businesses, governments and research institutions has delivered many economic and social achievements. But we need to continually improve and adapt to a fast-changing global environment. Businesses that operate in open and competitive markets are the key to...
Because health is so fundamental to social and economic prosperity, the BCA supports the view that health is everybody’s business. For too long health policy decisions have been seen as a matter for governments and the health sector. But as...
Work–family issues are integral to Australia’s future economic and social prosperity. The BCA has previously highlighted the need for Australia to maintain the level of workforce participation if living standards are not to decline as the population ages, and has...
In its submission to the 2007–08 federal Budget, the BCA set a goal for Australia to lift its living standards into the top-five band of the world’s developed economies by 2012 and in the process, provide additional opportunities and the...
Submission to the Senate on the Inquiry into Australian Expatriates
Supplementary Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on the CLERP (Audit Reform and Corporate Disclosure) Bill
Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties regarding the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement