In the past week there has been a welcome rise of interest in the thorny issues of dumping and anti-dumping measures. The Productivity Commission (PC) has released a research report examining recent changes to Australia’s anti-dumping regime and looking at…
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Innes Willox, Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, puts the case that contrary to recent debate, business does pay its fair share of tax in Australia. The response last December to the first release of tax data for large…
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Chinese New Year is so significant for our largest trading partner you will probably receive some warning that it is coming up – but in case you don’t know, it is celebrated from February 7-13 this year. While there are all…
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What if an emissions accounting change could up-end narratives about which nations are high and low performers on greenhouse gas emissions? And what if the same change could help solve industry’s worries about the uneven impacts of climate policies on…
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Ai Group’s Tennant Reed will be in Paris over the next two weeks to provide regular updates on the 2015 Climate Change Conference and its implications for Australian industry. This post provides a preview of what can be expected and links to…
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There have been some positive signs around local economic conditions since the start of the 2015-16 financial year, with Ai Group’s performance indices for the manufacturing, services and construction sectors all showing long-overdue expansion after years of weakness. Other partial…
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If you follow the financial press, you may have noticed a raft of articles announcing that, at the current oil prices, Saudi Arabia will have run out of money by 2020. This was a reaction to a release of an…
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week released the quarterly Consumer Price Index data for the September quarter 2015. The headline consumer inflation remained weak, at only 1.5% over the year to September. Prices for tradeable goods and services…
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The unemployment rate reached 8.0% in South Australia in September, according to the latest labour force data released last week (trend data). This was the highest level of unemployment rate for South Australia since 2000 and the highest of any…
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A central question has been missing from the avalanche of think pieces, fact checks and hot takes about the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement, or ChAFTA. How is the agreement likely to change the make-up of the Australian labour force? This…
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