
Small business is standing up for a better IR system
Too much red tape is stifling productivity in hard-pressed enterprises.
Too much red tape is stifling productivity in hard-pressed enterprises.
IN the current agricultural landscape, it’s hard to talk about industry issues without talking about politics.
Everything from crippling overregulation to the stagnation of grain and livestock prices was on the agenda at the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA’s 2024 annual convention.
In focusing on declining productivity and financial pressures on households from persistent inflation and elevated interest rates, the minutes of the Reserve Bank board’s September meeting on monetary policy will give the Albanese government and the opposition plenty to think about in this new sitting session of parliament.
Data for Question One was collected via a poll of 1,003 Australians commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs.
It’s disappointing to read how inadequately The Australian Financial Review has treated the critical issue of developing northern Australia.
Business Council of Australia (BCA) chief executive Bran Black is set to tell Mr Albanese in a speech on Tuesday night that leaders of many major companies ‘feel we are losing our way’ economically under Labor.
Labor and the Coalition are consigning younger generations to a future of higher taxes, ballooning government debt and poorer living standards, Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black will warn.
Chief executives of the nation’s biggest companies are warning Australia is “losing our way” and taking “steps backwards” under Labor, with the Business Council of Australia taking a shot at Anthony Albanese for accusing disgruntled employers of “talking Australia down”.
It is hard to fathom that what is now the Zone Tax Offset (ZTO), originally established in 1945, has barely evolved in more than 70 years.