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Thursday
24 June 2010
Statement by
Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
I have today, on
behalf of members of the Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry and
the wider business community, conveyed
our congratulations to Julia Gillard
on her election and appointment as
Prime Minister of Australia, and on
Wayne Swan's election as Deputy Prime
Minister. I have reaffirmed the commitment
of ACCI and the wider business community
to working with the Australian Government
and its political leadership on our
economic, workplace and social challenges.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
24th June 2010
195th Survey
of Industrial Trends – June
Quarter 2010
The June quarter 2010 ACCI-Westpac
Survey of Industrial Trends showed
a marked softening of manufacturers’
General Business Sentiment for the
second half of 2010, amidst softening
domestic demand projections, RBA rate
hikes in April and May, and growing
concerns over the global outlook following
the European debt crisis.
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more on our designated news page.
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23 June 2010
The
NSW Business Chamber has welcomed the
further reductions in workers compensation
premium rates announced by the NSW Government
today. Read
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Thursday
3 June 2010
Today
Fair Work Australia handed down its
2010 annual wage review increasing
adult award rates by $26.00 and the
adult minimum wage by $26.12 to $569.90
(or $15.00 per hour).
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
21 June 2010
Business Council of Australia President
Graham Bradley yesterday co-hosted the
first meeting of the Australia–China
CEO Roundtable in Canberra. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
11 June 2010
Statement by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief
Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, has welcomed today's
decision by a Full Bench of Fair Work
Australia on trade union right of
entry into workplaces under the government's
new industrial relations laws. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
11 June 2010
Statement
by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry today renewed
calls for Australia’s banks
to make a greater effort to understand
and meet the needs of the small business
sector following the release of the
Export and Investment Corporation’s
(EFIC’s) Global Readiness Index
(GRI) yesterday. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday 10 June
2010
NSW’s largest business organisation,
NSW Business Chamber, said the Opposition
announcements about economic reform,
infrastructure and affordable housing
was a comprehensive package indicating
a broad economic agenda. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
9 June 2010
Statement by Mr Peter Anderson,
Chief Executive
Australian business
faces a growing skills gap according
to the Australian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry’s (ACCI) Employment,
Education and Training (EET) Committee
which met in Perth today. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday 9
June 2010
NSW’s largest business organisation,
NSW Business Chamber, is encouraging
employers and their employees to start
discussing leave options for the 2010
FIFA World Cup to avoid “sickies”
from late night matches.
Match Date
& Time (Aus EST) Impact on Business
Australia V Germany Monday 14 June,
4.30am Queen’s Birthday Public
Holiday Australia V Ghana Sunday 20
June, 12am Weekend game
Australia V Serbia Thursday 24 June,
4.30am Thursday - working day Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
8 June 2010
NSW’s largest business
organisation, NSW Business Chamber,
said the 2010-11 Budget provided the
state with workable policies designed
to improve the long-term competitive
position of NSW. Welcomed
initiatives in the 2010-11 State Budget
include: Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
7 June 2010
NSW’s largest business organisation,
NSW Business Chamber, has welcomed the
NSW Government’s announcement
to cut NSW’s payroll tax rate
by a further 0.05% in tomorrow’s
budget. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
3 June 2010
Fair Work Australia's
(FWA) decision today to increase the
minimum wage and more than one thousand
award wages by $26 per week, is irresponsible,
potentially damaging to the economy
and a stark reminder of how the centralised
wage system fails to cater for those
employers that can afford large rises
and those that can't. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
2 June 2010
Statement by Robert Milliner, Chair
of the BCA Business Reform Task Force,
on the Henry Taxation Review and the
Resource Super Profits Tax The
BCA has today released a statement
on the government’s response
to the Henry tax review. The proposed
Resource Super Profits Tax does not
rate well against the BCA’s
high-level principles for tax reform.
Of most concern to the BCA is the
failure of the RSPT to meet the principle
that the taxation framework be characterised
by stability and predictability, with
any change prospective so as not to
adversely affect existing investments
or create perceptions of sovereign
risk. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
2 June 2010
Statement
by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The release of the
Fair Work Ombudsman’s (FWO)
Guidance Note on transitional provisions
in modern awards makes it clear that
the cost of doing business in Australia
will increase from 1 July 2010 when
the regulatory clean-up and phasing
in of the new awards will commence.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
1 June 2010
Statement by Greg Evans,
Director, Economics & Industry
Policy
The Reserve Bank
of Australia’s (RBA) decision
to leave official interest rates unchanged
is a reprieve for the Australian economy,
business and consumers.
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more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
1st June
Statement
by Blake Briggs, Senior Workplace
Policy Advisor
Fair Work Australia's
Minimum Wage Panel will hand down
its first National Wage Review decision
at 11 am Thursday 3 June 2010. NSW
Business Chamber will be providing
a summary of the decision and its
application to modern awards generally
immediately following the decision.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
1 June 2010
Statement by
Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The reality that
the transition to modern awards means
increased costs of employment, including
increased penalty rates, allowances
and changes to regulated employment
standards particularly in service
industries is dawning on employers
today with the release of the Fair
Work Ombudsman’s (FWO) Guidance
Note on the transitional provisions
in modern awards.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday 28 May
2010
NSW’s largest business organisation
is calling for the abolition of NSW’s
small business minister after an analysis
revealed that there have been seven
small business ministers over the last
three years with an average term of
just six months.
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more on our designated news page.
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27
May 2010
NSW’s largest
business organisation, NSW Business
Chamber, has expressed its disappointment
that Unions NSW would oppose cuts
in payroll tax that would encourage
employers to create more jobs, especially
given the $2.7 billion improvement
in the NSW Budget bottom line.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
21 May 2010
Statement by Mr Nathan Backhouse,
Manager Trade Policy and International
Affairs
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry’s (ACCI’s)
Trade Policy and International Affairs
Committee, representing more than
20,000 Australian export trading companies
in State Chambers of Commerce and
Australia’s major national Business
Councils, held its second meeting
for 2010 in Adelaide.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
21 May 2010
Statement by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief
Executive
Australia's largest
employer body, the Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, is continuing
to resist the Australian Government's
push to force a $20 billion per year
increase in employer superannuation
payments from 9% to 12% of payroll.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
19 May 2010
The
May ACCI Small Business Survey shows
a marginal improvement in Small Business
Conditions over the March quarter, with
this index rising to 52.9 – the
highest level since the December quarter
of 2007 and around 2.5 points above
its five year average of 50.4. Small
businesses expect their business conditions
to improve further over the June quarter.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
18 May 2010
NSW's largest business organisation,
NSW Business Chamber, said that an NRMA
survey that shows businesses are paying
up to $10,000 in extra wages and fuel
costs as a result of traffic congestion
reinforced the need for a Transport
Tsar to implement a traffic demand strategy
for Sydney's transport network. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
17 May 2010
PETER
ANDERSON:
The Annual Wage Review being conducted
by Fair Work Australia is part of the
new industrial relations system established
by the Government.
The Government says that its system
will get the balance right, and that
its system will deliver fairness. Fairness
in the workplace is not just an issue
for employees, it’s an issue for
employers as well. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
14 May 2010
Statement
by David Gregory, Director Workplace
Policy
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, has given evidence today
to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation
Committee hearing into the Government's
National Paid Parental Leave Scheme.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
14 May 2010
Statement
by David Gregory, Director Workplace
Policy
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, has given evidence today
to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation
Committee hearing into the Government's
National Paid Parental Leave Scheme.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
12 May 2010
NSW’s largest business organisation,
NSW Business Chamber, has welcomed the
introduction of legislation into the
NSW Parliament that will allow for independent
costing of election promises. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday 11 May 2010
“This Budget sees a sooner-than-expected
return to surplus and the government
meeting its own fiscal rules, but it
introduces a huge question mark over
future growth,” BCA Chief Executive
Katie Lahey said. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
12 May 2010
PETER
ANDERSON:
Tonight’s budget serves up a
sweet and sour dish to the business
community.
Sweet because the Government is trying
to get the deficit down and there
is some small business tax relief
and good new investment in skills.
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more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
11 May 2010
Statement by Stephen Cartwright,
CEO NSW Business Chamber
NSW’s largest
business organisation, NSW Business
Chamber said the changed economic
projections contained within the 2010-11
Federal Budget represented good news
about Australia’s immediate
economic prospects. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
11 May 2010
Statement
by Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The Federal Budget
projects an optimistic yet realistic
view of the growth prospects of the
Australian economy and wisely commences
the process of bringing the Commonwealth
budget into repair after 18 months
of substantial stimulus spending.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
10 May 2010
Statement
by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, says that recent instability
in overseas financial markets arising
from sovereign debt issues in Europe
should be used as a basis for attracting
foreign capital to Australia and support
the provision of finance to local
businesses, in evidence at this morning's
Senate Economics Reference Committee
hearing in Canberra, which is conducting
an Inquiry into Access of Small Business
to Finance. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday 7 May 2010
Statement
by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, supports the proposed
small business tax concessions outlined
in the Government Response to the
Henry Tax Review, and has called for
them to be included in the forward
estimates of next week's Federal Budget,
in order to prevent them being a political
football caught up in the debate over
the Resource Super Profits Tax. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday 6 May
2010
TOPICS:
RETAIL AWARDS, YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, RESOURCE
SUPER PROFITS TAX
PETER
ANDERSON:
No young person should be denied useful
work that pays award rates because
of the new Industrial Relations laws.
That proposition is going to be tested
today in Fair Work Australia. It is
going to be tested in the Retail Industry
Awards because since 1st January we
have seen retailers have to deny employment
to young people, indeed dismiss some
young people from their jobs, because
of the inflexibility in the minimum
engagement rule
in the Retail Awards. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
6 May 2010
Statement
by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, has welcomed the establishment
of a new national automotive industry
body – the Australian Automotive
Industry Association. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
6 May 2010
Statement
by Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, says that today's arbitration
by Fair Work Australia of minimum
engagement provisions in the retail
industry is a significant test of
whether the new ‘fair work’
industrial relations laws have ‘got
the balance right’ as intended
by the Government. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday 4 May 2010
Statement by Mr Peter Anderson,
Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry has welcomed
today's release by the Government
of exposure draft paid Parental Leave
Bill but expressed caution at the
unnecessary level of administrative
compliance that could be imposed on
employers and small business. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
4 May 2010
Statement by
Mr Peter Anderson, Chief Executive
Reserve Bank interest
rate increases are always difficult
for business and all borrowers across
the economy. Today’s tightening,
will not be welcome news for individual
businesses. With six increases in
eight months, including three successive
rises and a combined 150 basis point
adjustment since October 2009, ACCI
considers that there should now be
a pause before any further rate hikes
in the current cycle. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
4 May 2010
Commonwealth
Bank – ACCI Business Expectations
Survey
The May 2010 Commonwealth
Bank – ACCI Business Expectations
Survey has found that all business
actual indicators improved over the
March quarter, except for the index
of Sales Revenue. Nonetheless, most
of the expectations indicators are
plateauing after the strong rebound
recorded in the preceding three quarters.
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more on our designated news page.
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Monday 3 May
2010
TRANSCRIPT Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
PETER ANDERSON
- ACCI CHIEF EXECUTIVE
The Australian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry indicated yesterday that
the Government response to the Henry
Tax Review is a mixed bag for business,
and indeed it is. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
3 May 2010
Statement by Mr Peter Anderson,
Chief Executive
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Australia's
largest and most representative business
organisation, has moved to clarify
the exposure employers and small business
have to changes to superannuation
taxation and company taxation in the
Government response to the Henry Tax
Review. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Sunday
2 May 2010
The
Henry review into Australia’s
Future Tax System makes an historic
and significant contribution to the
economic reform debate in Australia.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Sunday
2nd May 2010
Statement by Mr Peter Anderson,
Chief Executive
The Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Australia’s largest and most
representative business organisation,
says that the Government Response
to the Henry Tax Review is a mixed
bag for the business community with
welcome steps towards a lower corporate
tax rate and small business concessions
on depreciation cancelled out by tax
hikes on
employer superannuation and a new
tax on the resources industry.
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more on our designated news page.
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1
January 2010
The highly anticipated redevelopment
of Chatswood Mall is set to commence
on Monday 15 February 2010. The upgrades
will see Chatswood Mall rejuvenated
into a modern and vibrant café
and retail promenade offering more dining
space, outdoor seating and areas for
events and entertainment.The construction
works will be undertaken in stages to
maintain public thoroughfare and access
to the shops and services located in
Chatswood Mall throughout the 10 month
construction period. Read
more on our designated news page.
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