This is a submission to the Labor Party’s Better Budgeting discussion paper. The ultimate goal of government spending must be to improve community living standards through the provision of crucial services such as education and health care, public infrastructure, national defence and...
This is the Business Council of Australia’s submission to the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman’s inquiry into payment times and practices. The inquiry was set up to examine concerns raised with the Ombudsman by small business suppliers about...
This is an additional submission to the Senate Economics References Committee Inquiry into Corporate Tax Avoidance and Minimisation after the committee resolved to broaden the scope of its inquiry to include Australia’s offshore oil and gas industry. The Business Council...
Our immediate focus must be on restoring the security, reliability and affordability of our energy systems. However, we cannot ignore the need for a more sustainable system as we transition towards a lower emissions economy. Clear, stable energy and climate...
In our Budget submission, we set out a responsible five-pronged strategy to promote stronger growth, better services and increased value from government spending, with the ultimate goal of achieving higher community living standards: an architecture for embedding a systematic approach...