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Trust appoints managing director

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... at Blake Dawson for six years and Mallesons Stephen Jaques as an executive partner. He is also a member of the Business Council of Australia's Sustainable Growth Task Force and is a director of The Australian Outward Bound Foundation. This news comes ...

Let's make the ETS workable: BCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
Business Council of Australia (BCA) criticisms of the government's emissions trading system are not a rearguard action against fighting climate change, but constructive suggestions about how to make it work better. Speaking at the Sydney Institute last ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) international trade in goods and services data for May is due. The Business Council of Australia president Greg Gailey addresses the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) on `Australia's Emissions ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
The Business Council of Australia (BCA) wants the government to freeze budget expenditure for three years but doesn't believe executive salaries should follow suit. In its Budget submission, the BCA said the Federal Budget should "Set a target of zero ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... influence start to turn to it for guidance. Melinda Cilento, deputy chief executive and chief economist at the Business Council of Australia, said, "The Federal Budget will be the first real test of the government and to what extent fiscal policy is ...

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 ...