The Australian Financial Review 6 November 2012 By Rohan Mead Group Managing Director, Australian Unity Largely hidden by the glare of attention on whether the recent Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has Australia on track for a surplus...
The Australian Financial Review 15 October 2012 By Jennifer Westacott Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia As a member of the judging panel for this year’s Indigenous Governance Awards, I’ve learned a lot from seeing how Indigenous organisations manifest their...
Herald Sun 12 October 2012 By Jennifer Westacott Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia. Next week is Anti-Poverty Week, an initiative that aims to improve public understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty, and encourage actions to deal with...
The Daily Telegraph 24 September 2012 By Tony Shepherd President, Business Council of Australia In the past two weeks we’ve seen some very tough decisions made by state governments in an effort to rein in spending and control the size...
The Australian 21 September 2012 By Jennifer Westacott Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia. This is an edited extract of a speech titled ‘Restoring a High-Performing Public Service’ by Business Council of Australia Chief Executive Jennifer Westacott to the Institute...
The Australian Financial Review 12 September 2012 By Tony Shepherd President, Business Council of Australia The Australia in the Asian Century White Paper should attach a high priority to what governments can achieve by working with the private sector to...
The Australian 7 September 2012 This is an edited extract of a speech Business Council of Australia Vice President Graham Bradley delivered to the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia conference. Asked about the implications of falling commodity prices this week in the...
The Australian Financial Review 24 August 2012 By Tony Shepherd President, Business Council of Australia We have seen a number of announcements this week about scaling back or deferring investment in major mining and capital projects. While we should not...
The Australian Financial Review 26 July 2012 By Tony Shepherd President, Business Council of Australia Changes to media regulation being considered by the federal government highlight the risk of reactive and ill-conceived regulation, go beyond the role of government in...
The Australian 20 July 2012 By Jennifer Westacott Chief Executive, Business Council of Australia Business wants to work with government to raise wages by boosting productivity AUSTRALIA’s workplace relations system needs to come to terms with the changing nature of...