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Business has role to play in Voice debate

This opinion article was co-authored by Tim Reed, president of the BCA; Jennifer Westacott, chief executive of the BCA and Danny Gilbert, managing partner of Gilbert+Tobin and BCA board member and was published The Australian Financial Review on Thursday, 3 August 2023....

Why is Labor attacking the right to work casually for higher pay?

This opinion article by Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott AO was published in The Australian Financial Review on Thursday, 6 July 2023  Higher take home pay and the flexibility to work when Australians want could be at risk under...

Why the government’s proposed IR shake-up risks our economic credentials

This opinion article by Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott AO was published in The Australian on Tuesday, 20 June 2023  We all want Australians to have safe, high wage, sustainable jobs, and to be rewarded for their hard work...

Australia’s investment environment has gone seriously wrong

This opinion article by Business Council chief economist Stephen Walters was published in The Australian Financial Review on Thursday, 8 June 2023  Wednesday's National Accounts confirmed that Australia’s investment drought is not over. Capital spending by private businesses did rise...

A tax on business hurts all

This opinion article by Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott was first published in The Herald Sun on Thursday 25 May 2023 I know it sounds simple to increase taxes on business but let me assure you it doesn't work...

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