“We welcome the Senate voting to bring forward the transition to the new Building Code,” Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott said after the passage of the Building and Construction...
The Business Council's submission to the review of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) cautions against short-sighted changes. The Business Council believes companies must meet their tax obligations and do...
Valuable new Asian export markets are in jeopardy if the Parliament does not pass the Government’s enterprise Tax Plan in full. This was the message from National Farmers Federation chief...
"We firmly support the Turnbull government's move to bring forward the transition to the new Building Code," Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott said today. "We have long supported the...
This opinion article by Rohan Mead, group managing director of Australian Unity and chairman of the Business Council's Healthy Australia Taskforce, was published in The Australian on 9 February 2017....
Read moreThis opinion article by Jennifer Westacott was published in The Australian Financial Review on 2 Febuary 2017 When a highly respected senior member of the Fair Work Commission such as...
Read moreThis essay, published in The Weekend Australian on 28 January 2017, is the first in a series exploring the challenges for Australian prosperity. Australians who travel to New Zealand, as...
Read moreThis opinion article by Tim Reed, chief executive of MYOB and chairman of the Business Council Innovation Task Force, was published by Business Insider on January 18. When Malcolm Turnbull...
Read moreThe Business Council's submission on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Misuse of Market Power) Bill 2016 disagrees with the Turnbull government's proposal to introduce an "effects test". The current law works...
The Business Council is calling for COAG to commit to reform major project planning approvals systems in the States and Territories. Competitive Project Approvals report sets out a best practice...