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ALP's broadband funding comes under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... time will look at that data and say that unless it's fixed, we're going to face a real problem in term of long-term productivity growth." However, Federal Treasurer Peter Costello launched a scathing attack on the policy in Parliament yesterday and to ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... designed to minimise risks. It pours too much sand into the wheels of innovation. In the long run, this stifling of productivity and growth will undermine Australia's ability to compete with more efficient countries." A major focus of the negotiations ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
The good work done by the Productivity Commission with another seminal report addressing the issue of Australia's capacity to improve and match the performance of the likes of the US has been released. The paper notes that while some European countries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... for iron ore now tallies 37 per cent of global supply compared to 11 per cent a decade ago. Poorer than expected productivity growth in Australia for some time is to some extent now explained by the required upfront large investment in mining infrastructure ...

ANZ appoints ops and IT head

... calibre join ANZ. His experience in technology and operations is important in continuing to advance our agenda on productivity, particularly end-to-end simplification," said ANZ's chief executive John McFarlane. Commenting on Grime's retirement, McFarlane ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... News from the US economy continues to illustrate the mix of signals that we have become accustomed to with worker productivity increasing in the December quarter at a time when labour costs fell from the 3.2 per cent gain of the third quarter to a figure ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... Corp. This offset gains made earlier in the stock market after data showed fourth-quarter wage pressures eased while productivity increased, which reinforced the view that the Federal Reserve has no need for now to raise interest rates. The Dow Jones ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... hardest. The Business Council of Australia has asked the federal government to increase workforce participation and productivity especially given that the country has had fifteen years of economic expansion wherein the appropriate planning should have ...

Interest rates on the way down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... Economic Forum they expect interest rates to fall this year while another said it was a national scandal Australia's productivity growth had stalled. Saul Eslake, chief economist for ANZ, said, "Many of the things that have driven this latest economic ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has criticised the Federal Government's record on productivity citing a report by the OECD which says that Australia's spending on higher education has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase ...