This Month
Trophies and sequins as Australia’s business leaders gonged
A $70,000 Rolex and a sequined jacket show life is sweet for the victors, though the path isn’t always smooth.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Furious Stephen Conroy was dumped as Business Council lobbyist
When did the BCA exactly became a discredited rabble of a business lobby? And was it around the time Conroy’s TG Public Affairs ceased receiving a retainer?
- Myriam Robin
Stephen Conroy goes spluttering and unhinged against the BCA
The former Labor senator went troppo at the Business Council, whose members include his own lobby clients.
- Mark Di Stefano
Tesla’s Robyn Denholm to lead review of R&D settings
The Albanese government has ordered the first review of research and development spending in Australia in almost 20 years.
- Tom McIlroy
November
- Exclusive
- Income tax
Victoria lags the country on anti-business payroll tax
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will host a meeting of his state and territory counterparts on Friday, in a bid to boost productivity and drive investment.
- Tom McIlroy and Gus McCubbing
‘Unhelpful’ governments driving up interest rates: BCA
Governments should put hard caps on spending growth to rebuild their finances, preventing the public sector from pushing up inflation, the Business Council says.
- Michael Read
Should regulators have a light touch with AI rules?
Managing AI risks is all about making the most of the human safety net.
- Alexandra Cain
AI gets real as big business finds its feet
An era of cautious, low-stakes experimentation is rapidly giving way to tangible changes in how some of Australia’s largest operations run.
- Paul Smith
Chalmers sets up $900m productivity fund
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ new fund will offer incentive payments to streamline building approvals and enact other pro-productivity reforms
- John Kehoe
GP referrals to be axed under proposed health shake-up
Patients could skip a visit to their GP when obtaining referrals to some specialists under the recommendations of Labor’s inquiry into the healthcare system.
- Michael Smith
- Exclusive
- Mergers & acquisitions outlook
ACCC boss implores Coalition, Greens to back merger laws
Gina Cass-Gottlieb calls it the “most critical law change they are going to have to make a decision on in the life of this parliament”.
- Ronald Mizen
Construction workers should be 10pc of migration, big developers urge
That was one of the key messages from a housing roundtable that focused on how to remove roadblocks to increasing the supply of affordable houses
- James Eyers and Campbell Kwan
- Analysis
- Housing crisis
Five fixes to the housing crisis – from smaller homes to more builders
From more migrants with building skills to incentivising different types of housing, three chief executives give their suggestions on how to develop more homes.
- Campbell Kwan and James Eyers
October
- Lifetime Achievement
- Energy Awards
Grant King: Energy fortune-teller has plenty more to offer
The former Origin Energy boss and former head of the Business Council has been recognised with the Lifetime Achievement award.
- Agnes King
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Australia is in the eye of an economic storm
The only course out of it is to raise the productive capacity of the economy, as we have done before. Stimulus policies have not worked.
- Angus Taylor
September
- Opinion
- Opinion
Three ideas to sharpen up the Business Council of Australia’s act
Curiously, given business bangs on about innovation all the time, the BCA has failed to get the memo.
- John Kunkel
Woolworths, Coles price manipulation claims come at tough time for BCA
Liberal and Labor MPs say that the claims against the supermarkets undermine corporate Australia’s efforts to position itself as a critical plank of prosperity.
- Tom McIlroy
Why do I have to pay more for others’ free childcare?
Readers’ letters on who bears the cost of childcare subsidies; bitcoin going mainstream; the BCA and populism; the cost of nuclear energy; CFMEU members’ fears; and the benefits of hip replacement.
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Corporate Australia can’t let Albanese brush reform under the carpet
Business needs to get more on the front foot in calling out the policy and political class failure that most media coverage has normalised.
- Michael Stutchbury
- Opinion
- Australian economy
CEOs who spend less time trying to be liked are heard more often
When company bosses spent less time trying to be liked, they got listened to more often.
- John Roskam
