Business Council of Australia

An alliance of 30 business and industry groups has warned the Albanese government it is only itself to blame for the continuing fallout from the budget because it rushed the key tax changes and failed to consult anyone with expertise in advance.

In a letter sent to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, and six other ministers, the alliance, which is led by the Business Council of Australia, said the inadequate consultation that has fueled the post-budget controversy was not a one-off issue, but is endemic across portfolios and topics.

Consultation, when done well, is a critical step in ensuring good policy design and minimizing unintended consequences of policy reform.

Increasingly, however, we are being, uh, asked to review and respond to complex exposure draft legislation, regulations, and consultation papers within windows that leave little realistic opportunity for considered input.

The Minerals Council called it the major boost for Australia's mineral sector, especially critical minerals supply.

The Business Council of Australia said that the agreement gives Australian companies better access to one of the world's largest markets and puts them on a more level playing field with global competitors.

If those opposite will not take the word of Australian industry, perhaps they would listen to Senator Cash, who said, free trade equals jobs, growth, opportunity and wealth generation.

Or Senator Hume, who infamously said, too fond of good coffee and free markets to join the nationals.

This time, some of the different business groups, you know, have, aren't, aren't so worried about some things as others are, like getting rid of surcharges and the ATO ban on credit cards.

I don't think the Business Council of Australia would necessarily, you know, weigh in too heavily on.

They would be more concerned about Angus Taylor's migration plans, for example.

So I, I don't think there's the, the big issue like back then, the mining tax, the carbon tax, that are gonna mobilize the business community in the way that some of the problems right now are.

We invited them.

But I have to agree with the Business Council of Australia boss, Bran Black.

Migrants are needed for growth in the economy and...

According to the latest intergenerational report, Australia is on track to record more deaths than births by the 2060s as the nation's fertility rate falls to a new low, which will, for the first time

It's a Queensland-based party.

It's no different to Trades Hall being owned by the union movement and space given to the Labor Party or the Business Council of Australia donating or loaning or giving cheaper rent to the Liberal Party.

or having

a building donated to them by someone or other.

But on day four, we've really explored how AI adoption will be up-uptaken across businesses.

We've heard from the Business Council of Australia, and that comes off, uh, ACCI yesterday.

They're talking about how a lot of small businesses are no longer asking the question, "Should we use AI?" They are using it, and they're asking, "How can we use it better? How can we help our business?" So there's a lot of opportunity there.

It's something that the BCA, Grant Black spoke about today as something that could help productivity.

This is a place where patients can be discharged while they're waiting for things like medication, paperwork to be finalised, transit to another location, but to free up a bed in the process to make sure that inpatient beds are freed up as quickly as possible so that those in emergency can be transferred into those beds and we can see more patients presenting at emergency faster and our ambulances spend less time waiting outside emergency departments.

The Business Council of Australia is warning the Federal Coalition's migration plan could be part of what it's calling a race to the bottom.

Chief Executive Bran Black says the opposition's plan to cut net migration to 100,000 is based on arbitrary figures that could hurt the economy and worsen Australia's skill shortage rather than improve the situation.

He says a target that low undermines Australia's capacity to prosper, and while training Australians to do jobs should be the priority, tradespeople or nurses cannot be trained up overnight, and there currently aren't enough workers to serve an ageing population.