Our work

2024 - 2025 policy platform

The Business Council will anchor its policy advocacy in the following key policy platforms:

• Competitiveness and productivity
  Driving the national competitiveness and productivity discussion, promoting policy that supports private enterprise, free markets and innovation.
• The energy transition to Net Zero
  Facilitating a coordinated transition to net-zero by 2050 while supporting Australian industries, driving investment in clean technologies, developing new exports with our international partners and supporting energy security, reliability and affordability.
• Tax reform
  Creating a tax system that drives investment and rewards ambition, is intergenerationally fair and can sustainably fund the services Australians need.
• Regulation, planning and infrastructure
  Developing the physical and regulatory environment that allows business to thrive, while supporting entrepreneurial ambition, delivering the infrastructure and housing we need, enabling investment and meeting community expectations.
• Workplace relations
  Advocating for a workplace relations system that drives productivity, flexibility and inclusivity, benefitting employees while allowing businesses to thrive.
• Skills, education and research
  Ensuring Australia continues to be a global leader in talent through world class education, skills and research – complemented by a targeted skilled migration program – so we can meet our current and future workforce needs.
• Future technologies and industries
  Leading the policy discussion to capture the opportunities and manage the risks of adopting new technologies across our economy, including in digital technologies, AI and cyber security.
• Global engagement
  Enhancing Australia as an open, competitive trading nation to support national prosperity, with close international ties that drive investment, free enterprise and trade.
• Participation and diversity
  Fostering an economy that enhances economic participation for all Australians and thrives on diversity, including by empowering Indigenous Australians.