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VicSuper wins Sustainability Super Fund award

... fund's chief executive Bob Welsh won an international sustainability leadership award, co-sponsored by the World Business Council, for being a pioneer in promoting an innovative business approach to sustainability. At the time, VicSuper was the first ...

Aus and India in free trade talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... states, territories and industry bodies throughout the study. Stephen Manallack, secretary of the Australia/India Business Council, said the timing of free trade negotiations between the two countries was good especially as there is a growing relationship ...

Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

... trillion to just over US$2 trillion. His predictions come at a time when the country's peak business body, the Business Council of Australia, is calling on the government to adopt a more proactive policy approach in exporting services. According to the ...

St.George and HESTA champion flexible workplace

... two of the country's leading business bodies, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and the Business Council of Australia (BCA). A panel of government and industry workplace experts chose the winners. Michelle Baltazar

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... negatively affecting the outer suburbs of Sydney where manufacturing job losses were hitting the hardest. The Business Council of Australia has asked the federal government to increase workforce participation and productivity especially given that the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... business community has formally acknowledged the need for increased corporate social responsibility with the Business Council of Australia chief executive Katie Lahey today presenting a such conclusions to the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility's ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... cent up on this time last year, recorded rises in all of its five component indices over the last month. The Business Council of Australia has noted that the lack of national infrastructure planning and the inefficiencies of government bureaucracy are ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... agriculture and GDP generally. Following the Australia Business Roundtable call for early action, the Australian Business Council now supports carbon trading. Globally, cuts of 60 per cent in green house gas emissions are needed to avoid dangerous climate ...

Retiring at 65 unsustainable: Bernard Salt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... so dramatically. Bernard Salt, KPMG director, demographic expert and bestselling author, speaking at Canberra Business Council annual dinner, said, "The retirement age of 65 years is no longer sustainable because after people have paid off their HECS ...

Industry groups ecstatic over red tape rationalisation proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2006
... overwhelming support that its time to finally do something to attack the problem at its roots. Michael Chaney, Business Council Australia (BCA) president, said, "The big problem with regulation-making in Australia is it is un-coordinated, with governments ...