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.
Telstra Corp. has been ordered by court to pay fines to the Commonwealth worth $18.55 million for violating the Trade Practices Act and its conditions for carrier licence by locking out other broadband companies from its telephone dealings.
Changes suggested by the Cooper Review on Australia’s superannuation system seemed to have affected a wide array of industries as some businesses and the indigenous art market both aired their concerns on Tuesday that the revisions to be implemented by the government could severely impact their respective sectors.
The International Pilots Association has filed a case against Qantas, charging the major airline company of breaking the Fair Work Act.
The Australian government appointed the country’s first aircraft noise ombudsman, cutting the work out for the new official.
Telstra (ASX: TLS) said on Tuesday that it is ready to deal with possibility of a scrapped National Broadband Network (NBN) in the event that the coalition made good on its campaign vow to dump the project it once dubbed as a ‘multi-billion dollar white elephant’.
Australia is set to welcome its first independent aviation ombudsman as the federal government has appointed Ron Brent for the job.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday that among the Labour candidates seeking for a post on the August 21 election, only Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan is assured of getting a frontbencher slot in the government.
The Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) issued a statement today calling for all politicians to address the true migration issue with honesty, clarity and good faith.
A Sydney company director has been fined $16,900 for underpaying eight of his former staff. The employees, who received no money at all for weeks on end, were underpaid a total of more than $31,000.
An economic analyst has suggested the hyped debate over Australia’s sustainable population has overshadowed the country’s problem on housing shortage.
The Treasury and Finance departments announced on Monday that the country’s Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) has slightly veered away from their budget forecasts as both clarified that Australia’s economic projections remained essentially untouched from the updates earlier released by Treasurer Wayne Swan.
