Use $10 billion a year to create 500,000 jobs:business

Use $10 billion a year to create 500,000 jobs:business

Australia's biggest employers are forecasting an investment surge to create 500,000 jobs in a bid for a permanent tax break in the October budget to speed up the recovery from recession.

  • byDavid Crowe

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Backbenchers,businesses urge governments to ease state borders

Backbenchers,businesses urge governments to ease state borders

Backbench MPs have joined business groups in pressuring federal and state governments to lift border closures between states.

  • byDavid Crowe
Victorians to get federal paid pandemic leave disaster payments

Victorians to get federal paid pandemic leave disaster payments

Victorians forced to self-isolate without sick leave will get $1500 payments from the federal government in a bid to stop people spreading coronavirus at work.

  • byNick Bonyhady andRob Harris
Tony Shepherd:'Sport is a religion. It gives us meaning'

Tony Shepherd:'Sport is a religion. It gives us meaning'

As chair of AFL team GWS Giants and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust,the 76-year-old businessman knows what matters to Australians – but he also reveres family and the sanctity of life.

  • byBenjamin Law
Book extract:Bad Egg by Andrew Bragg

Book extract:Bad Egg by Andrew Bragg

What are we trying to achieve with this extraordinary experiment of superannuation? Senator Andrew Bragg outlines how he would fix the system.

  • byAndrew Bragg
Health,IT and construction the priorities as business backs vocational training revamp

Health,IT and construction the priorities as business backs vocational training revamp

Business groups have welcomed Scott Morrison's push on skills but warn underfunding is a critical issue that needs to be addressed.

  • byFergus Hunter
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Businesses push for coronavirus red tape rollback

Businesses push for coronavirus red tape rollback

Businesses are desperate for cuts to Australia's notoriously onerous red tape burden introduced during the coronavirus pandemic to be made permanent.

  • byCara Waters
Business calls on national cabinet to smooth over state splits

Business calls on national cabinet to smooth over state splits

Managing the"waking up"is as important as managing the"going to sleep",Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox says.

  • byDavid Crowe
Business council sets up $25m trust for children of firefighters killed

Business council sets up $25m trust for children of firefighters killed

The $25 million permanent trust will pay for the school and tertiary or vocational education of children who have lost a parent to the bushfires.

  • byLatika Bourke
'Australia cannot stand still':Business lobby reheats calls for company tax cuts

'Australia cannot stand still':Business lobby reheats calls for company tax cuts

The Business Council of Australia says the government must confront the political challenge or risk Australia becoming an uncompetitive investment backwater.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Labor pushing to make political parties disclose donations over $1000

Labor pushing to make political parties disclose donations over $1000

Labor has called for tougher laws on political donations to respond to a furore over foreign interference in Australian politics.

  • byDavid Crowe