With Trade Wars between our two largest trading partners, the indecision of Brexit and WTO paralysis, it can feel like Australian businesses are flotsam in a sea of trade uncertainty. Fortunately, Ai Group has a global voice though our membership…
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This week’s release of GDP data by the ABS has generated an unusually large amount of noisy and impatient commentary about the definition of a ‘recession’ and whether or not Australia is in one. This is despite the fact that…
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This week I am attending the OECD World Forum on ‘the Future of Well-Being: Statistics, Knowledge and Policy’, as a guest of the OECD. This year was the sixth annual World Forum but the first Forum at which private sector…
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The way that air cargo leaving Australia is being screened is changing and it will affect all members who use air freight or are part of the logistics chain. By 1 March 2019, all exports sent overseas by airfreight will…
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Themed Confectionery Unwrapped, ConTech2018 – the Ai Group Confectionery Sector’s annual event – did just that! The one-day conference, held last Tuesday (19 June) with the help of the Principal Sponsor, the Manildra Group, opened with a trade exhibition of suppliers’ products and…
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Three myths about the Australian workforce seem to have become widely accepted in the public consciousness as if they were “facts”. One of these has been that “casualisation is increasing in the Australian workforce”, despite being proven incorrect in 2016…
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On 21 March 2018, Victoria’s Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Women, Natalie Hutchins, held a conference on gender pay gaps in the Australian workforce. Around 500 people attended. Ai Group’s Nicola Street and Julie Toth addressed the conference,…
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What’s happening? On 9 March, President Trump announced new tariffs for imports of Steel (25%) and Aluminium (10%), using the argument that America’s diminished local steel industry poses a security risk to the United States. This is in response to…
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Ai Group’s National CEO Survey of the 2018 Business Outlook has interesting and positive results for manufacturing. Manufacturing CEOs say that 2017 was the best year in the last five years. Two thirds of them expect 2018 to deliver a…
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Once an FTA negotiation has concluded people are suddenly worried about what impact it will have on their business, or what opportunity for change they missed out on. Ai Group has partnered with ANU Centre for European Studies to run…
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