As Ai Group Chief Executive Innes Willox lays out in the Australian Financial Review today, fixing the political uncertainty over the Renewable Energy Target (RET) is growing ever more urgent. Innes’s piece points out that the once-yawning gulf between the Government…
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Are you on the right track to retain your high performing employees? It’s a challenge starkly summed up by the headline of an article published by Forbes last year: Employees Who Stay In Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid…
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The long-awaited Productivity Commission inquiry into Australia’s workplace relations framework is underway, fulfilling an election commitment by the Federal Government for an independent review. The Government has stated that any recommendations emerging from the inquiry that it supports will be…
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Your story can help us shape Government policies. This year, once again, there is no shortage of Government inquiries on issues that are important to business. Ai Group will continue to make submissions and representations to try to get good…
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The proposal to cut back on eligibility for the Research and Development Tax Incentive is not only poor policy – it cuts against the Government’s more general policy objectives and priorities. If enacted, this Bill will reduce spending on innovation…
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The Victorian Government has abolished the Victorian construction code and implementation guidelines, and has disbanded the Construction Code Compliance Unit. Ai Group has expressed strong concern about the decision and has called for the Building and Construction Industry (Improving Productivity)…
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The Australian economy needs to find significant new drivers of growth. As the mining investment boom fades and commodity prices retreat, we are struggling to achieve the rebalancing that is so clearly required. The recovery in housing construction has been…
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