Some of our “Australian” industry bodies don’t quite live up to their titles, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Iona Salter.
Business Council of Australia
Labor’s quest for business endorsement on carbon
Business endorsement of a carbon price won’t assist Labor, and it’s unlikely to get it anyway.
Crikey Says: Good question, prime minister
Julia Gillard has always been good at calling a spade a spade. And that’s exactly what she’s done in her letter to the Business Council of Australia today.
The strange reform hypocrisy of Australian business
Australian business has an ordinary record of backing economic reform.
The Punch’s new puppet
A few days after the BCA’s proposal to slash funding for the disabled to pay for the flood levy was roundly condemned, News Ltd’s The Punch publishes a vigorous defence by… well, some anonymous creation. Jeremy Sear explains.
Mayne: directors club scrambling to retain barriers to entry
Directors of Australian public companies have long enjoyed something of a closed shop with substantial barriers to entry and very few new entrants attempting to barge their way in uninvited.
Putting a stiletto through the glass ceiling
Finally, gender diversity on company boards is back on the national agenda, writes Paul Quinn. Companies listed on ASX now have to discuss their gender split and the BCA have started a mentoring program for women.
Stutchbury: Stuff the GFC, pay attention to China
Will 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.
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.
