21 November, 2011
The CFMEU is seeking to bring the Labor policy on anti-dumping closer to the Coalition plan and rebuffs claims by Brendan O’Connor, Minister for Home Affairs, and Craig Emerson, Minister for Trade, that the Coalition plan would be in violation of WTO agreements.
In media reports today, Mich...
07 November, 2011
The Coalition today released its plan to provide Australia with a vigorous and fair dinkum anti-dumping regime.
But, as usual, Trade Minister Craig Emerson and Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor are not interested in good policy, even when the Coalition’s position is not only fully sanctioned b...
02 November, 2011
Labor’s demonisation of the mining industry’s use of research and development (R&D) tax incentives shows the depths to which its arguments for a mining tax have sunk.
A media report today indicates ‘government sources’ and Treasurer Wayne Swan are now trying to cite miners’ increasing u...
02 November, 2011
Labor has today been delivered a chilling warning by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC): alter course on industry and regulatory policy or risk decimating the country’s largest manufacturing sector.
Amid a range of ominous trends and forecasts, the AFGC’s 2020: Industry at a Cross...
01 November, 2011
Julia Gillard may be trying to sideline her Industry Minister Kim Carr, but Labor’s tale of woe on manufacturing policy continues.
For the seventh time in eight months, the latest AiG-PwC Performance of Manufacturing Index has revealed yet another decline in Australian manufacturing activity. ...
21 October, 2011
PRESS RELEASE
OUTWORKER LEGISLATION HOBBLES FAMILY CLOTHING BUSINESSES
Melbourne Oct 21 - Peak body for the Textile Clothing and Footwear (TCF) sector, the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) met with Victorian clothing manufacturers today to discuss issues...
19 October, 2011
Science Minister Kim Carr has suffered another humiliation this morning – with his own Chief Scientist indicating his displeasure with the Government’s abolition of Australia’s main international science program.
At a Senate Estimates hearing this morning, Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb said...
19 October, 2011
At the Senate Economics Legislation Committee today the Deputy Chief Executive, CSIRO Operations, Mr Mike Whelan disclosed that the CSIRO was recruited by the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency to help with the Government’s carbon tax advertising campaign. As a result Dr Alex Wonhas*...
11 October, 2011
Under the Steel Transformation plan Labor has abandoned the majority of firms in Australia’s steel industry with all of the proposed carbon tax assistance set to go exclusively to the two largest domestic steel manufacturers.
This is despite the Prime Minister being on record as saying on 1...
10 October, 2011
Labor MPs can’t get their story straight on key details of the Steel Transformation Plan as they desperately try to sell the compensation package to the Australian public which is overwhelmingly opposed to carbon tax.
The Steel Transformation Plan Bill 2011 (the Bill) introduced to the Hous...