Stutchbury: Stuff the GFC, pay attention to ChinaWill a lack of adequate infrastructure slow Australia’s economic growth? Australia needs to embark on a new wave of supply-side reform, one that actually includes cost-benefit analysis, writes Michael Stutchbury.
Business Council of Australia
The BCA launches a spam-alanche
Yesterday, the Business Council of Australia mistakenly emailed the same screed hundreds and hundreds of times to Australia’s elite. Oops.
Rudd’s good deed on golden handshakes
The Federal Government appears to be taking a solid first step towards reducing executive largesse.
Director’s club gorges on fees bonanza
The phenomena of executives taking up non-executive roles at other publicly listed companies puts a lie to the business lobby’s line on fat cat salaries, writes Adam Schwab.
Who needs the feds to fix federalism?
The premiers and chief ministers have gathered in Melbourne for the first all-Labor COAG meeting and health, indigenous affairs, business deregulation, housing, water and climate change are all expected to be discussed. But if the premiers want movement on these issues, why do they need to wait for the Commonwealth? asks Christian Kerr.
Business telling “Porky’s” over WorkChoices ads
As The Age reported yesterday, the “union thugs” gracing our televisions are actually real life criminals, hired by the Business Coalition for Workplace Reform. Why should we be surprised? writes Jeff Sparrow.
While the world burns, business leaders fiddle
Internal documents from the Business Council of Australia leaked to Crikey offer an interesting snapshot of just how action on climate change has been stalled and derailed for over a decade in the name of the economy.
