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History will mark 2014 as the year in which the Australian motor vehicle manufacturing industry finally gave up its fight for survival. What the future of our manufacturing sector will look like once Ford…
In 2006 the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimated that there were around 7,000 self-employed indigenous Australians who operate their own small business. This was around 6% of the total population…
Australia’s agribusiness sector has been in the headlines recently. An example is the decision by federal Treasurer Joe Hockey in November last year to block the takeover of GrainCorp by US agribusiness…
The battle is heating up between Australia’s Murray Goulburn Co-operative, Bega Cheese Ltd and Canada’s Saputo Inc. over the acquisition of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Ltd (WCB). Much of the…
By 17 December 2013 federal Treasurer Joe Hockey will need to make up his mind over whether or not to allow the sale of GrainCorp Ltd to the U.S. giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). The issue of whether…
Without doubt ‘red tape’ is one of the most politically contentious issues facing governments when seeking to develop effective small business policies. During the 2013 federal election campaign the “Too…
One of the issues likely to create headaches for the federal government in their first term is the thorny issue of coal seam gas (CSG) development in east coast Australia. Federal Industry Minister Ian…
Each year the Business Review Weekly (BRW) publishes its list of Australia’s Top 500 privately owned companies. This year the BRW highlighted the overall performance of these firms in what had been an…
The Global Innovation Index (GII) for 2013 has recently been published and once again Australia finds it is at the bottom of the top. The GII is a global comparative study of 142 countries undertaken each…
To outsiders Western Australia may appear as a state with a buoyant economy riding a wave of mining and energy investment, but away from the resources sector things are tough. Over the past few weeks the…