The Property Council of Australia today said that the State Government's move to decrease possible building heights in the South Brisbane area contradicts with the intent of the Government's own South East Queensland Regional Plan (SEQRP) and will negatively affect landholders in the area.
Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan calls on opposition leader Tony Abbot to convince his ‘friends’ in big tobacco companies to halt their ad campaigns against the federal government’s plain cigarette packaging measure.
Family doctors will resent comments made by the Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon that GPs who have medical practices near government-funded Super Clinics need to question the services they offer, said Dr Adrian Sheen, President of Doctors Action.
Big tobacco companies appear to be taking the offensive this time against the Labor government’s anti-smoking campaign as the Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday that the Alliance of Australian Retailers (AAR) paid for a full-page advertisement in tomorrow’s newspapers outlining its apposition on the federal government’s policy against cigarette use.
Babcock & Brown was solid enough and well positioned to face any financial troubles for at least ten months prior to its failure, according to the testimony given by the investment bank’s former director before a Federal Court on Tuesday, as investigation on the bank’s failure continues.
Fortescue Metals Group chair Andrew Forrest said on Tuesday that the federal government would be better off should it decided to completely dump the proposed mining resource rent tax as it would only benefit Xstrata, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, three of Australia’s largest mining firm.
After parodying Julia Gillard's climate policy in a TV ad earlier this month, GetUp, an independent Australian advocacy organisation, has turned its attention to Tony Abbott in a new commercial featuring the Coalition leader's statements about abortion, the cervical cancer vaccine and the role of women in society.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday that her government is all about job creation and retention and the Australian economy as a whole, as she pointed to Labour’s sterling record of economic management, which she asserts could easily speak for itself.
Working people in the Northern Rivers are concerned about what an Abbott-led Coalition Government would mean for them, according to Secretary of Unions NSW, Mark Lennon, who has spoken to labor forces in the area over the last 24 hours.
Wages have accelerated in New Zealand as exports picked up at a faster and stronger pace.
Australia's population should be allowed to expand much bigger so the nation would have enough labour to capitalise on China's demand for commodities, according to economic commentator Niall Ferguson, who called the debate about curbing population growth pathetic.
The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC), which represents junior and mid-tier miners, has begun a new advertising campaign against the Gillard government's resources tax but dismisses it as it is politically influenced.
A teachers’ group in New South Wales is expressing alarm that the state government is set to use school maintenance funds in replacing unflued gas heaters as two school principals received advisory that delays on scheduled maintenance works should be expected while the government is scrambling for replacement money.
Retail giant Coles said on Saturday that the Coalition’s proposed 1.7 percent company tax on Australia’s largest companies is more likely to carry soft impact on consumer goods prices even as company managing director Ian McLeod stressed that he was more concern on rising utility bills than the planned levy.
Australian Newsagents' Federation chief executive Alf Maccioni has urged both major parties to commit to introducing measures to provide support to small business.
The Australian Tax Office said on Friday that the global financial crisis was one of the major reasons that tax avoidance have spiked up in the country as it noted that glaring numbers of small businesses operating in rural regions were particularly hurt by the economic decline.
New Zealand’s TrustPower Ltd chair Bruce Harker made calls on Friday for the partial privatisation of the country’s government-owned power companies as he underscored that under the plan, companies operating in the industry would be subjected to constant pressure of prudently utilising capital and maintaining minimal operational costs.
The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies, which represents small and medium-sized miners, is planning to relaunch an advertising blitz against the 30 per cent minerals resource rent tax.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) said on Thursday that it is set to launch a data matching program that will aid the agency in tracking online retailers who have breached the $20,000 mark in selling good and services within the past three financial years.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be in Perth on Friday for the first time in the campaign for the federal election, and will declare that the coverage of the national broadband network will expand from 90 to 93 per cent of the country.
Airservices Australia is set to invest massively in infrastructure over the next 12 months, according to a statement released today.
The Biofuels Association of Australia today called on both sides of the federal election to consider how renewable and sustainable fuels can play a role in directly reducing carbon emissions and balancing Australia's fuel trade deficit.
Synthetic gas producer Carbon Energy Ltd (ASX: CNX) said on Thursday that the emerging underground coal gasification (UCG) technology should not be dismissed outright in the wake of a failed UCG project in Queensland ordered shut down by the state government this month amidst cases of water contamination on the Kingaroy site.
Queensland's resource and construction industry employers today convened to discuss the latest issues confronting them under the Fair Work Act
Wayne Swan, Treasurer of the Federal Government, says he is encouraged by the newest figures indicating inflation was lower than expected for this June quarter.
Former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz has admonished that the resource sector has too much control on the political debate on Australia's mining tax.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association says the construction workers, who number about 1,500 and walked out from their posts at the Pluto project at Woodside, Western Australia, must answer responsibly for their actions.
The QRC (Queensland Resources Council) says the state government’s appointment of its first commissioner for LNG will surely help in balancing domestic gas demand and prospects for export.
The federal government faces the spectre of eventually collecting less revenue from commodities should coal prices plunge to the same levels seen from some few years ago but on the upside, some companies would end up as beneficiaries of a one percent cut in company tax should the proposed mineral resources rent tax is implemented.
The National Seniors Australia said on Wednesday that their group gained assurance from Treasurer Wayne Swan that the Labour government would fully support payment increase for the country’s pensioners.
