Business Council of Australia
Stamp duty, councils and big business’s $10b shot at the housing crisis
The nation’s peak business group will propose a $10 billion federal plan to build more homes and slash the cost of construction.
- David Crowe
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- Property development
‘Upzoning’ Melbourne needed to fix housing crisis, big business says
Victoria should introduce consistent zoning laws across the state to boost housing stock and stabilise property prices, the Business Council of Australia says.
- Annika Smethurst
Defamation lawyer Rebekah Giles turns journo and asks the ABC the hard questions
A younger Rebekah Giles used to protest ABC funding cuts. Now she finds herself facing them in court - to her distress.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
- Opinion
- Class action
Bad timing: Big business’ image tarnished by Harvey Norman class action
All it took was a class action lawsuit to put a kink in a nation-unifying call from the Business Council to cease and desist with business bashing.
- Elizabeth Knight
‘Chilling effect:’ Business heavyweights send an economic warning to Canberra
Business titans said the rising populist tone in public debate is a danger to the economy as they faced Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a high-powered event on Tuesday night.
- Clancy Yeates
Albanese cops a roasting at big business’ night of nights
The prime minister faced a ribbing at the Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner in Sydney on Tuesday night.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Roast Albo: PM cops a grilling at business dinner
The Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner was the classic heavyweight clash of the political and business classes.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Albanese warns corporate chiefs of ‘extreme anti-business’ opposition
The PM has gone on the offensive in a growing row with big business, saying his government has “stood up for some of Australia’s biggest employers”.
- David Crowe and Olivia Ireland
- Opinion
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Albanese’s love affair with the big end of town is on the rocks
High inflation, elevated interest rates and a cost-of-living crisis have spawned a competition in Canberra over which party can produce the most populist policies. Now business is fighting back.
- Elizabeth Knight
Business chiefs confront PM for taking economy ‘backwards’
The government is standing by its centrepiece workplace reforms even as the Business Council of Australia unleashes a fresh assault on its workplace agenda.
- David Crowe
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