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Australian investment in venture capital lags: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... reduce reliance on the Age Pension. SMC is also calling for the government to commission a fresh fast-track Productivity Commission review of regulatory compliance costs and inefficiencies to deliver more money into the retirement funds; enable super ...

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 ...

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
... 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 Australia chief executive ...

Productivity woes endure in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... was stagnant in the March quarter and declined over the year, according to the latest figures from the Productivity Commission. Productivity Commission deputy chair Alex Robson said Australia's productivity problem is no flash in the pan, calling it ...

Labor proposes changes to ancillary funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... is the greater of $11,000 or 5% of the fund's net asset value. The proposed reforms are off the back of Productivity Commission's recommendations in the Future foundations for giving final report and the Blueprint Expert Reference Group in its Not-for-profit ...

COVID 'masked' issues at core of productivity problem: PC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... record high between January 2020 and March 2022 before returning to pre-pandemic levels in June 2023, the Productivity Commission (PC) has revealed. New research from the PC investigated the causes of the bubble and found that it "only served to mask ...

Small construction firms drag productivity: CEDA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
Australia's laggard construction productivity and deepening housing crisis have been made worse by the small businesses that dominate the sector, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) says. While several factors have contributed ...

Productivity Commission identifies priority reform areas

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
The Productivity Commission (PC) has identified 15 priority reform areas for further exploration under the five productivity inquiries commissioned by the government. The five productivity inquiries were around creating a dynamic and resilient economy ...

Global economic uncertainty the main priority: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2025
... licensing, changes to non-compete clauses and reviving national competition policy. "We commissioned from the Productivity Commission five big pieces of work on the main drivers, the main pillars of productivity in our economy. We'll see that in ...