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Brighter Super awards $50m mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... can produce strong returns for Brighter Super's members whilst contributing positively to Queensland's economy and productivity." Last year, Brighter Super announced its Queensland Investment Strategy focused on investing an additional $500 million in ...

Treasury opens consult on non-compete reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... eradicating such clauses could lift the wages of workers by up to 4% or $2500 a year, based on median wages. Meantime, the productivity boost could add $5 billion or 0.2% to the GDP annually. "Non-compete clauses, by their design, restrict an employee's ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
The Productivity Commission says the nation should adopt a "growth mindset" by embracing artificial intelligence (AI), boosting human capital and rejigging corporate taxes to boost static productivity levels. The report, Growth mindset: how to boost ...

McKell Institute calls for CGT 'circuit breaker'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
... up to 130,000 additional homes built by 2030. The McKell Institute said it would be submitting the proposal at the productivity roundtable. "Labor has resisted change to the CGT discount for too long," co-author of the paper and McKell chief executive ...

How will Trump's tariffs impact the RBA?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... retaliatory measures against US tariff impositions will mitigate any inflation fallout." Miller added that while productivity growth and elevated labour cost growth may be sticking points for the RBA, he believes there are other data points that suggest ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... performance and expectations for the year ahead. "Australia, like much of the developed world, is grappling with stagnating productivity growth and GDP per capita," Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon said. "Fiscal imbalances are obvious ...

Superannuation is Australia's 'productivity engine': ASFA

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2025
... there is more that needs to be done. ASFA has released The Impact and Opportunity of Superannuation on Australia's Productivity report, conducted alongside Economic Reform Roundtable, with the focus on productivity growth. The report revealed that high ...

RBA delivers 'confounding' rates decision

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
... spending still supporting the economy, our biggest economic challenge remains boosting business investment to lift productivity. This provides a clear case for the continued easing of monetary policy." Meanwhile, Treasurer Jim Chalmers expressed his ...

Trade war could have positive impact on Aussie GDP: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2025
New modelling from the Productivity Commission (PC) in its annual Trade and Assistance Review (TAR) shows that proposed US trade policy measures will have a marginal direct impact on the Australian economy, but the risks and uncertainty they bring may ...

Chalmers opens economic reform consultation

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2025
... representative group that we're asking to provide ideas and build and advance consensus around them." Those invited include Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood, representatives from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Business Council of ...