Business must push back harder on tax, regulation
BCA is right; we cannot tax, regulate or redistribute to prosperity
‘Time to unshackle the bush from crippling taxes, bad policy,’ says Adam Giles
The people who feed and power Australia are being strangled by red tape, a senior agribusiness leader warns, urging sweeping structural reform to save the bush, writes Adam Giles.
Taxpayers are taking the risk on energy
Anthony Albanese has hailed the $2.5bn taxpayer subsidy for the Tomago aluminium smelter as proof of the wisdom of the federal government’s Future Made in Australia approach to business. It is nothing of the sort.
These burdensome taxes by other names still stink
The fastest-growing industry in Australia produces nothing you can buy, sell or export. It produces rules.
‘Hundreds of billions’ in lost investment after governments make Australia a ‘hostile’ destination for cash
Australia has missed out on a huge amount of investment thanks to “increasingly hostile” government policies that have forced the resources sector into “decline”, new research claims.
We can have domestic gas and exports if we lure enough investment
Australia is fortunate to sit atop one of the world’s great natural gas resource bases.
Living standards growth under Labor on track for worst level since World War One as ex-RBA governor calls for action
Australia’s economic stagnation under Labor is the nation’s “fundamental problem” as a new report shows living standards growth is at the worst point since the First World War.
Australia faces worst decade for living standards growth since WWI
Australia is heading for its weakest decade of living standards growth in more than a century, fuelling support for One Nation and prompting former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe to warn that fundamental policy change is needed to encourage business investment.
‘Something is wrong with this place’: Kelty slams state of economy
Labor luminary and former ACTU boss Bill Kelty has slammed the quality of economic management in Australia, saying taxes and spending are too high, and there is “something really wrong” when living standards are falling at the same time commodity prices are booming.
She’ll be right’ attitude could cost NT billions
The Northern Territory is poised at the edge of a resources boom but the opportunity will pass by without dedicated efforts to make it happen, according to industry leaders.
