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Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... higher interest rates. As Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor, Philip Lowe, told his audience at the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA) in Perth on 11 April, 2018, a "...scenario in which interest rates are increasing is one in which the ...

NSW Treasury appoints productivity commissioner

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... especially want to hear from the community and business on what barriers and problems they want fixed." The NSW Business Chamber estimated businesses spend more than $10 billion a year complying with regulations across Government. NSW Treasury said an ...

Chief economist update: Inflation remains in the slow lane

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... that they start lifting interest rates, or would it be 3.0%? RBA Governor Philip Lowe's address to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Perth on April 11 offers a clue: Governor Lowe listed four broad points in discerning monetary policy direction ...

New chair, deputy chair for industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... lead the board, having served as an employer director since 2015. Wetherall is the former president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is a past president and current director of the NSW Business Chamber, and currently holds an additional ...

Chief economist update: Inflation is heading Fed's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... negative knee-jerk reaction. But the same way as RBA Governor Philip Lowe explained in his address to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce, it's a scenario "...in which interest rates are increasing is one in which the economy is strengthening and ...

Chief economist update: RBA certain to raise interest rates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... Governor Philip Lowe cannot be more explicit about monetary policy direction than this when he addressed the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (WA) in Perth yesterday. Perhaps, Lowe is itching to experience the kind of power the RBA Governor holds ...

Tariff exemption a sigh of relief: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... security agreement so we don't have to impose steel or aluminium tariffs." Mexico and Canada are also exempt. Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson said Australia must now use its diplomatic skills to help to avert ...

Two FSC senior policy managers depart

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... University of Sydney Business School. Prior to joining the FSC in 2011, he was a senior policy adviser for the NSW Business Chamber for two years. Before that, he was a member of Ethical Clothing Australia, and a senior policy officer at the Department ...

Sunsuper director steps down

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... more than 25 years' experience to the role and is currently servicing as president (and non-executive director) of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Queensland (CCIQ), Sunsuper's employer representative body, and a non-executive director of the ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... the next one to two years, particularly in cyber-security defence, Lane told a recent BAE Systems and Australian British Chamber of Commerce event. Australia's financial services industry is a high-profile target internationally for cyber-security threats ...