Business council appoints Liberal staffer to top job as IR showdown looms

Business council appoints Liberal staffer to top job as IR showdown looms

Jennifer Westacott’s replacement was chief of staff to former NSW Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet,risking tensions with leaders in Canberra and the states.

  • byDavid Crowe

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Business lobby warns Australia risks falling behind as US mounts green revolution
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Business lobby warns Australia risks falling behind as US mounts green revolution

Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott says Joe Biden’s historic climate change bill has changed the economic landscape and Australia must now act.

  • byFarrah Tomazin
Government presented with $34 billion wishlist - and that’s just the start of the budget demands

Government presented with $34 billion wishlist - and that’s just the start of the budget demands

Increasing Commonwealth rent assistance is among the policies that multiple committees have recommended to the government as it battles rising costs on all fronts.

  • byShane Wright andNatassia Chrysanthos
The secret shame stopping 3 million Australians from doing their jobs properly

The secret shame stopping 3 million Australians from doing their jobs properly

The federal government wants training for millions of Australians who lack the basic literacy and numeracy skills required to gain better jobs and increase their wages.

  • byDavid Crowe
Albanese talks proudly of his single mum. Time to put his money where his mouth is

Albanese talks proudly of his single mum. Time to put his money where his mouth is

The PM should use the budget to give security to our most vulnerable cohort:single mothers. It’s not only about redressing poverty. It makes economic sense.

  • byJacqueline Maley
Jennifer Westacott to step down as Business Council chief

Jennifer Westacott to step down as Business Council chief

Australia’s most powerful business lobby group has begun the process of finding a new chief executive.

  • byJessica Yun
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‘Always will be invasion day’:Think about what you’re celebrating on January 26
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‘Always will be invasion day’:Think about what you’re celebrating on January 26

Imagine being taken from your Aboriginal mother as a baby. Adopted. Traumatised. Lied to,and many years later learning the shocking truth of Australia’s history.

Scrap skilled jobs list for high earners,employers say as they race for talent

Scrap skilled jobs list for high earners,employers say as they race for talent

Business groups and experts say the skilled occupation lists are outdated,fail to identify future job gaps and create unnecessarily onerous layers of bureaucracy.

  • byRachel Clun
Labor warns miners it won’t ‘watch Australians suffer’ as power prices soar

Labor warns miners it won’t ‘watch Australians suffer’ as power prices soar

The mining sector has hit back at the Albanese government’s commitment to cut power bills,which could include new taxes or price caps.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
Big businesses unite to oppose amended IR bill

Big businesses unite to oppose amended IR bill

Business Council of Australia chief Jennifer Westacott is calling on the government to axe unions’ right to veto pay deals.

  • byAngus Thompson
More pay,more strikes? How new laws would affect you

More pay,more strikes? How new laws would affect you

The government says its proposed IR laws would help raise wages. Bosses say they could lead to strikes. What are the sticking points?

  • byAngus Thompson