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Businesses asked to participate in international tax treaties: Coonan

The Department of the Treasury has sought comments from the Australian business community on the status of Most Favoured Nation (MFN) obligations, on the eve of tax treaty negotiations to be held between Australia and Norway in Canberra next week. Australia ...

Budget surplus already at $337 million: DOFA

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2003
... $300 million in the black after the first two months of the 2003/04 financial year, new figures showed today. The Department of Finance and Administration (DOFA) said the underlying cash balance for the year to date August 31 was $337 million. The government ...

Australia's merchandise trade grows despite drought, world economic sluggishness

... Australia's merchandise trade rose by seven per cent with the European Union (EU) and by 4% with the Americas in 2002, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade disclosed recently. Total merchandise trade with regions accounted for 35% of Australia's ...

Security technology firm Biometrics opens IPO

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
... pending, could have prevented the recent thefts of sensitive information from Sydney Airport's Customs Office, and the Department of Transport in Canberra. Biometrics will issue 12.5 million ordinary shares at 20 cents each in the IPO, which it hopes ...

Domestic job figures to give new clues to economy

WITH AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2003
... the government's official employment indicator, which fell in September for the first time in six months. But the Department of Workplace Relations said the five-month run of positive results meant jobs growth would still pick up towards the end of the ...

Job advertisements rise 1.5% in August: ANZ job advertisement series

... commencement of a new government employment services contract on the Australian Job Search Site operated by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations). The level of internet job advertising was nonetheless the second-highest (after July) since ...

Costello announces new appointment to Productivity Commission

... public and private sectors. Dr Shann's experience includes work at the International Monetary Fund, the Treasury, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and Chief Economist of Shell (Australia)."

Rising job ads signal strengthening employment growth: ANZ

... The size of the increase partly reflected the commencement of a new government employment services contract on the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Australian Job Search site. But the ANZ said other internet job sites also recorded increases ...

Westpac Office Trust consolidates Sydney office tower construction projects

... Office Trust comes hot on the heels of the $88 million equity raising recently completed by Westpac in respect of the Department of Defence land at Moorebank, which was substantially over-subscribed.

Axiss to merge with Invest Australia: Costello

Axiss Australia will continue its operations as a distinct division of Invest Australia in the Department of Industry Tourism and Resources, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced. Following news of the departure of Axiss chief executive Les ...