As part of the Fair Work Commission’s 4 Yearly Review of Awards, the ACTU is pursuing an industrial claim for all awards to be varied to give employees who are experiencing family or domestic violence an entitlement to up to…
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If you want a five-minute summary of how the major parties compare on business policy, look no further. Ten days ahead of poll day, we’ve compiled a comprehensive head-to-head list of Election commitments. With the election campaign in the home stretch, the major…
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Manufacturing has an image problem – so we made a video to tackle common misconceptions about advanced manufacturing and to encourage students to enter one of our most important and innovative industry sectors. While the headlines continue to proclaim the death of Australian…
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Time to vote! Which Game of Thrones character best represents carbon pricing in Australia? There are few subjects that have been as politically divisive in recent Australian history as climate policy, and especially the concept of putting a price on…
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How far and fast are carbon prices spreading? To Australian observers the question may seem absurd. Here the question may be more “exactly how dead is carbon pricing?”. But in the many discussions at the recent Paris climate conference between…
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In November 2015 the Prime Minister announced that Australia and the European Union will start negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement. As a bloc, the EU is Australia’s largest source of foreign investment and second largest trading partner. In 2014,…
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Ai Group recently completed a major national project addressing competency based progression and completion in the engineering trades. The Engineering Excellence project set out to build a system where employers play a key role in confirming when apprentices are competent….
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In recent months I have met with manufacturers in western and southern Sydney, Albury, Wollongong, Newcastle, Geelong and Brisbane. At every meeting, I am asked what I am seeing and hearing in the industry. Ai Group’s July Australian PMI®, which…
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When we talk about the opportunities and issues with driving growth in the digital economy in Australia, it is sometimes easy to forget that there are common areas of policy at an international level and opportunities that can be gained…
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Australian greenhouse emissions are officially projected to rise steeply, making existing and new emissions targets look like a big stretch – and suggesting enormous burdens on industry will be involved. But ‘business as usual’ projections need a very big disclaimer:…
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