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The Right Research for the Right Strategy

There’s data and then there’s research. Ian Murray wants more research to help businesses develop an informed export strategy. Apart from being invited to participate at the Melbourne launch of the Global Readiness index (GRi) with ... Related posts: Federal Budget delivers $5 billion to education, research and innovation The ... Dynamic Export - 5:19 p.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Paid maternity and primary care giver leave now 18 weeks - John Hargreaves, MLA

Minister Hargreaves is pleased to announce the delivery of the Government's election commitment to extend paid maternity and primary care giver leave to 18 weeks and to double paid bonding leave. "The 2009-10 Budget provided funding of $7.06 million over four years to extend paid maternity and primary care giver ... John Hargreaves MLA - 3:28 p.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Should Punishment Be Profitable?

In last year’s mini-budget, the NSW Government announced plans to privatise two prisons: Cessnock Correctional Centre in the Hunter Valley and Parklea Correctional Centre in Sydney. Opposition to prison privatisation was spearheaded by the NSW Public Service Association (PSA) and resulted in the plan to privatise Cessnock prison being scrapped ... New Matilda - 11:30 a.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Export help for Victorian designers

Design Victoria has produced a new publication to encourage the state’s designers to go global. The Case for Export, launched last week, is a 60-page booklet containing case studies of emerging and established designers and ... Related posts: Export bible offers guidance for global business The Australian Institute of Export’s ... Dynamic Export - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Hockey questions Howard policies

Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey has questioned the Howard Government's welfare spending and tax cuts, saying the Rudd Government would be justified in scrapping the tax cuts in this year's budget because of the economic downturn. Sky News Business - 8:55 a.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Proposed Merger with Anglo American

Zug, 30 June 2009 Following recent press commentary and at the request of the Takeover Panel, Xstrata plc (“Xstrata”) confirms that its position in relation to synergies is as set out in Xstrata's announcement of 24 June 2009. Xstrata has quantified pre-tax synergies of over US$1 billion per annum by ... Xstrata - 1 a.m. Wednesday 1st July 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

2 days, 17 hours ago

Howard tax breaks 'too generous': Hockey

One of the Opposition's most senior frontbenchers says personal income tax cuts in Australia may have gone too far, and there was a case for the Rudd Government reneging on the promised tax cuts it delivered in the last Federal Budget. Yahoo!7 Finance News - 7:50 p.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Next Stage of Ipswich Motorway Underway

The Hon Maxine McKew MP. The Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure and Transport, Maxine McKew, and the Queensland Roads Minister, Craig Wallace, today officially turned the first sod on the next stage of works on the Ipswich Motorway funded in the 2009/10 Commonwealth Budget.. The Ipswich Motorway site will have ... Federal Government - 10 a.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Indian shares gain 0.14 pct

AFP - Indian shares edged up 0.14 percent on Monday, but slipped from intraday highs, as investors turned cautious and booked profit ahead of the unveiling of the federal budget next week, dealers said. Yahoo! News: World News - 1:28 a.m. Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST Related Media: http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090629/capt.photo_1246288554609-1-0.jpg?x= View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

2009-06-30 Funding boost for marine research Audio Video

Australia is changing the way it thinks about its vast ocean territory, one of the biggest in the world. Marine industries now add an estimated 40 billion dollars to Australia's bottom line -- that's more than we make from agriculture. The science that supports our marine industries got a funding ... Radio National Breakfast - science & technology - midnight Tuesday 30th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

4 days, 1 hour ago

Royal visit binds bilateral trade ties with Spain

The King of Spain HM King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia concluded their visit to Australia last week at the Australia–Spain Business Forum. Their first official visit in more than two decades was designed ... Related posts: Building sustainable export growth to Spain New laws passed by the Spanish ... Dynamic Export - 12:14 p.m. Monday 29th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Treasurer confident but not complacent about economy

After favourable reports on the Australian economy by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and World Bank, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan has confirmed the government’s strategy is working ... Related posts: Treasurer confident of stimulus boost to March quarter Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan ... Dynamic Export - 11:02 a.m. Monday 29th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

PBS to become work bonus for new entrants

Graeme Colley outlines the far-reaching changes to the pension bonus scheme announced in this year's Federal Budget. MoneyManagement.com.au - 9:37 a.m. Monday 29th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Does buy local mean bye local?

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may have been lampooned for his Strine, but last week, in its budget, the NSW government fair dinkum went and put it into policy. Under Local Jobs First , when state agencies and corporations buy their wares, they'll factor in a 20 per cent discount on ... ABC Unleashed - midnight Monday 29th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

5 days, 4 hours ago

Your 2009/10 guide to non-concessional (after-tax) contributions

Non-concessional contributions are more popularly known as after-tax contributions. You may even hear them called ‘undeducted’ contributions. Such contributions are subject to a contributions cap, which sets a limit on the amount of after-tax contributions that you can make in one year (1 July through to 30 June). If you ... SuperGuide.com.au - 9:15 a.m. Sunday 28th June 2009 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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