Security & Surveillance Feature Articles

We’ve all heard the news. According to the latest national accounts, Australia has skipped a technical recession for now. This is quite an extraordinary achievement given that 75 ...

“NSW business owners and operators are doing it tough at the moment and fast tracking the payroll tax cuts in the next NSW Budget would help them preserve jobs,” said Kevin MacDonald, ...

About a decade ago I changed jobs. I left the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), where I had held the position of research officer (a position Bob Hawke held in the 1950s ...

Speaking at the Australia China Business Forum in Sydney recently, Austrade’s Chief Economist Tim Harcourt outlined the continuing promise of the world’s fastest growing major economy ...

The pace of decline of manufacturing activity eased in May, with the Australian Industry Group - PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian ...

When the going gets tough, Australia’s exporters keep going. That’s been the experience of past global economic downturns and the current Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is no exception. ...

Employees made redundant due to the global economic downturn may be walking out the door with more than ill-feelings, according to a leading intellectual property lawyer.

They say a week is a long time in politics. Well, it’s a long time in economics too. A couple of weeks ago, I was with the Treasury Secretary looking at the impact of the decline in ...

“The Budget supports the economy in these tough times while pushing the re-set button in a number of important areas," says Heather Ridout, the chief executive of the Australian ...

Every year there’s an ‘X factor’ -something unexpected that economists cannot put into our well crafted forecasts. Source: Tim Harcourt.

One in three businesses have experienced difficulty in securing finance from their bank, according to a NSW Business Chamber survey.

Australian manufacturing industry output fell for the eleventh consecutive month in April, continuing to trawl uncharted lows.

Fresh approaches to national skills training are urgently needed in order to meet the challenges of the economic downturn and to position Australia for a return to growth and ...

A near capacity audience has heard that workplace flexibility will be a key component for businesses to survive the current economic downturn, and flourish in its aftermath.

NSW’s serious unemployment rate of 6.9% supported the urgent need for the Federal Government to fund a 50% payroll tax holiday across the entire country to take off some of the ...

NSW’s leading business organisation, NSW Business Chamber has welcomed the NSW Government’s response to the Jobs Summit and its commitment to cut red tape on businesses by $500 ...

WorkSafe has issued a warning to businesses to carefully check the identification of anyone claiming to be a WorkSafe inspector.

NSW Business Chamber has welcomed the launch of Tourism Australia’s “No Leave No Life” Campaign to encourage Australian employees to use their $33.3 billion stockpile of annual leave ...

When it comes to trade most of the news is ‘big picture’. We hear about the Doha round in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), APEC summits and in more recent years, bilateral and ...

"With the passage of the Fair Work Bill through Parliament employers face big challenges to understand the requirements of the new workplace relations system ahead of the implementation ...