The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently released its estimates for retail sales in December. Nominal retail sales fell 0.5% over the month after seasonal adjustments. This fall mostly reflects the transfer of pre-Christmas sales from the usual shopping peak…
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Innovative Adelaide-based manufacturer Philmac Pty Ltd has just signed up two staff members to join South Australia’s pilot group of Industry 4.0 Higher Apprentices. The two will join workers from other companies including REDARC, SAGE Automation and Treasury Wines to…
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Inflation data was recently released for the last quarter of 2019, closing out the most recent decade of price changes. This Data Story illustrates how the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is composed and what goods and services have become more…
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The 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was held in Madrid in December 2019. Ai Group is a registered observer organisation at the talks, and we were able to take in many…
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Australia’s devastating bushfire season shows how much we have to lose in a warming world and how badly we need a global solution. But the latest round of UN climate negotiations, held in Madrid last month, are being called a…
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Among the variety of concerns raised by Australia’s devastating bushfires, the mental health of the families who have suffered directly and of the firefighters and others involved in responding has received considerable attention. In part this reflects the greater openness…
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Climate policy is a fraught debate in Australia. It has claimed many political careers; it inspires intense feelings; and it requires us to weigh and manage lots of risks to the community and industry. Ai Group has been an active…
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There has been an influx of media attention focused on the increase of Work Health and Safety (WHS) penalties recently across Australia. This week Victoria and Northern Territory became the third and fourth Australian jurisdictions to make Workplace Manslaughter a…
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The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released its latest scorecard for the 2018-2019 reporting period. How does industry fare? More employers are embracing flexible work, greater access to paid parental leave and adopting policies to support employees experiencing family and…
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As another decade of disappointingly slow growth in Australia draws to a close, policy makers, business leaders and many others are pondering what needs to happen before growth picks up to the old pre-GFC levels that we had come to…
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