World Business Leaders for Growth, a coalition of CEO-led business groups from Australia, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico and the United States, today expressed growing concern that trade ministers appear to be falling short of setting the stage to complete the...
The meeting of the world’s trade ministers in Hong Kong has fallen well short of achieving the modest aim of agreeing a basic platform from which the Doha Round could have been concluded in 2006. The Business Council of Australia...
The upward revisions to the Budget surplus figures released today as part of the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook again underscored the capacity for fundamental tax reform in next year’s federal Budget, the Business Council said today. BCA Chief Executive...
Trade ministers from around the world need to focus their efforts in Hong Kong on resurrecting the Doha Round by providing the basis for a substantial trade liberalisation agreement to be achieved before the end of 2006. Six of the...
The problems of over-regulation could only be solved by long-term systemic changes and not quick fixes, the Business Council of Australia said today. The comments were outlined in the BCA’s submission to the federal government’s Taskforce on Reducing Regulatory Burdens...
New workplace relations reforms passed last week placed a significant responsibility on business to use the changes in ways that strengthen the economy and in turn, benefit the broader community, Business Council of Australia President, Mr Michael Chaney, said today....
The Business Council of Australia congratulated the winners of the 2005 ACCI/BCA National Work & Family Awards, announced by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Kevin Andrews in Sydney last night. The winners were: Gold Award – Private Sector – SC...
The Business Council of Australia has welcomed the federal government’s decision to cut the number of income tax pages by more than 2,000, saying the move should be a template for a comprehensive cull of unnecessary red tape across the economy....
Advertisements placed by the Business Council of Australia calling for further economic reform to lock-in prosperity will appear in major metropolitan and regional newspapers throughout Australia tomorrow. The advertisements remind Australians that economic reform has brought significant benefits to the...
The Business Council of Australia has elected Mr Michael Chaney AO as its new President for a term of two years. Mr Chaney has been a Member of the BCA since 1992 and is currently its Vice-President. He is Chairman...