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Thursday
December 8, 2011
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry offers its congratulations
to the 75 finalists in this year’s
Australian Export Awards.
This year’s
awards, the 49th Australian Export
Awards, will be presented at the Brisbane
Convention and Exhibition Centre on
Thursday –December 8, 2011.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday
December 7, 2011
The Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry challenged
the major banks today to explain their
delay in passing on yesterday’s
interest rate cut to both household
and business customers. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
December 6, 2011
Australia's largest
and most representative business organisation
welcomed the launch today of the Australian
Apprentice Ambassador Program by Employment
Minister, Chris Evans, in Melbourne.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
December 6, 2011
Statement by ACC's
Director of Economics and Industry Policy:
Grag Evans. The
Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry—Australia’s largest
and most representative business organisation—urged
the banks to pass on today’s
interest rate cut to their business
customers as soon as possible. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
5 December 2011
Business Council of Australia President
Tony Shepherd has welcomed this morning’s
announcement of a concept to transform
Sydney Airport, saying the plan is a
fine example of private sector investment
in crucial economic infrastructure that
will boost confidence and employment.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Saturday 3 December, 2011
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (ACCI), Australia’s largest
and most representative employer organisation,
urges employers on this International
Day of People with a Disability to focus
on the many abilities people with a
disability may have. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
29 November 2011
Statement
by BCA President Tony Shepherd
The announcement by the federal government
of a fiscal strategy that returns the
Budget to surplus in 2012–13 is
the right economic policy for the times.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
November 29, 2011 The
business community welcomes expectations
the budget will be returned to surplus
in 2012-13 and supports the thrust
of the savings measures announced
today by Treasurer Wayne Swan. However,
the $6.8bn dollars in expenditure
cuts over the forward estimates period
may still not be enough to return
to sustained surplus. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
November 24, 2011
Twenty
six representatives of the nation’s
leading employer bodies, meeting as
the General Council of the Australian
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, today
took the exceptional step of signing
a resolution of protest at the decision
yesterday by the House of Representatives
to legislate seven increases to the
employer funded superannuation levy,
raising it from 9% of payroll to 12%.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
November 24, 2011
Statement by ACCI
Chief Executive Peter Anderson
Victorian businessman
and leading figure in the Chamber
of Commerce movement Richard Holyman
has been elected President of the
Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry at ACCI’s Annual General
meeting, held today in Canberra. Read
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Wednesday
23 November 2011
The passage of the Minerals Resource
Rent Tax Bill through parliament should
not be a template for future tax reform,
Business Council of Australia Chief
Executive Jennifer Westacott has said
in a statement today. Read
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Wednesday
November 23, 2011
Transcript,
Peter Anderson, Sky TV Afternoon Agenda
Interview with David Speers
Tuesday 22 November 2011
JOURNALIST
Peter Anderson thank you for
your time. What is your major concern
about the increase in the Superannuation
Levy? Read
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Monday
21 November, 2011 In
the wake of a report today by the
House of Representatives Economics
Committee, the Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry has called
on the Parliament to
de-couple the Superannuation Levy
Bill from the Mining Tax Bills. Read
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Sunday
November 20, 2011 A
national meeting of more than twenty
leading employer and business organisations
in Melbourne has affirmed the need
for changes to Australia’s fair
work laws, and called for the review
to be independently conducted by the
Productivity Commission. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
November 7, 2011 Joint
Statement by Ged Kearney, President,
Australian Council of Trade Unions
and Peter Anderson, Chief Executive,
Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday 17 November 2011
The Business Council of Australia 2011
Annual Review outlines how top business
leaders from across different industries
seek to influence government policy
for the greater prosperity of all Australians.
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more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
15 November 2011
The Business Council of Australia welcomes
the plans by Prime Minister Julia Gillard
to change Labor Party policy to open
the way to sell uranium to India with
important safeguards. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
November 15, 2011
The November 2011 ACCI Small Business
Survey shows that small business trading
conditions and confidence continued
to deteriorate over the September quarter,
with all the actual and expectation
indicators for small business falling
below their five year averages over
the quarter. Moreover, all actual small
business indicators were in negative
territory in the September quarter,
except the actual indexes of Wage Growth
and Non-Wage Labour Cost. . Read
more on our designated news page.
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Friday
11 November 2011
Last night the Business Council of Australia
announced the election of Tony Shepherd
as its new president for a term of two
years. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wedneday
9 November 2011
The Business Council of Australia has
released its third annual survey of
members’ Indigenous engagement
initiatives. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Wednesday November 9, 2011
Last
week the Australian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry urged Australia’s
commercial banks to pass the benefits
of the cut in official interest rates
onto business. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
8 November 2011
The
Business Council of Australia has
issued a statement from Chief Executive
Jennifer Westacott saying the Clean
Energy Future Package legislation
passed by parliament today has the
potential to significantly increase
risks to Australia’s economic
growth and competitiveness. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
3 November 2011
Business Council of Australia Chief
Executive Jennifer Westacott has released
a statement on the deliberations underway
at the G20. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
November 3, 2011 At
this time of real uncertainty about
the Industrial relations climate,
the Australian Chamber of Commerce
and Industry finds it extraordinary
that the Government is now prepared
to fuel that fire by introducing legislation
to replace the Australian Building
and Construction Commission. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
November 3, 2011
The
Australian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (ACCI), Australia’s
largest and most representative business
organisation, is pleased to release
the report, “From Apprenticeship
to a career” as a guide to employers
and employees on a positive approach
to moving from training to full-time
work. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Thursday
November 3, 2011
Statement by Greg Evans - Director
of Economics and Industry Policy
The Australian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry has welcomed
the move by most of Australia’s
banks to fully pass on the official
rate cut in the pricing of their variable
rate home loans. Read
more on our designated news page.
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Tuesday
1st November, 2011
The decision
of the Reserve Bank Board to cut rates
to 4.5 per cent is a welcome relief
to businesses struggling in those
sectors of the economy that aren’t
benefitting from the mining boom.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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Monday
22 February, 2011
“It is time
for both political parties to stop
the uncertainty in the lead up to
the election, and make a firm commitment
to completing the Chatswood to Parramatta
Rail Link,” said Willoughby
City Mayor, Pat Reilly.
Following the recent
federal election promise on the rail
link, Willoughby City Council is concerned
the project might be abandoned or
delayed by the Opposition and the
necessity of the link to the Chatswood
CBD might get overlooked once again.
Read
more on our designated news page.
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