The Australian and New Zealand Productivity Commissions are seeking comments following the launch of an issues paper on options for further integrating the Australian and New Zealand economies.
Submissions close 31 May 2012.
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1 May 2012 - 1:30pm
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Helen Hull
Macquarie University is set to empower and inspire leadership at its annual Women, Management & Work Conference from 12 to 13 July 2012.
This year's theme, Women & Leadership: Inspiration and Empowerment, will encourage women to take control of their career by building on, and embracing, their full potential to become influential leaders in their field.
17 Apr 2012 - 3:30pm
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Helen Hull
Macquarie University is set to empower and inspire leadership at its annual Women, Management & Work Conference from 12 to 13 July 2012.
The conference, which has the theme of Women & Leadership: Inspiration and Empowerment will encourage women to take control of their career by building on, and embracing, their full potential to become influential leaders in their field.
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12 Jul 2012 - 9:00am - 13 Jul 2012 - 5:00pm
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Sofitel Sydney Wentworth
61-101 Phillip St
Sydney, NSW 2000Australia
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10 Apr 2012 - 4:00pm
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Helen Hull
The Productivity Commission is inviting interested parties, including First 5000 members, to register their interest in an inquiry into Australia's export credit arrangements.
Submissions close: 31 May 2012.
20 Mar 2012 - 4:30pm
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Helen Conway
Helen Conway, Director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency, highlighted the urgency of closing the gender gap, when she delivered the Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney on 19 March and again in announcing those who were recognised as EOWA Employers of Choice.
Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to 67 NSW and ACT organisations which this year have been awarded the EOWA Employers of Choice for Women citation. Nationally, 125 organisations gained the citation in 2012, recognising their efforts in areas such as closing the gender pay gap, placing women in executive management and offering a flexible workplace for those men and women with caring responsibilities.
14 Feb 2012 - 5:00pm
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Aligning your business to a charity is a great way to give back to the community. David Bell, managing director of Kwik Kopy discusses how the First 5000 partner chose to work with its charity Hands across the Water to create the 2012 Kwik Kopy Hands Classic.
You want your business to find a way to give back to the community, but choosing which charity to support can be a challenge.
7 Feb 2012 - 5:00pm
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Darren Woolley
After media, advertising production is usually the single biggest expense marketers and advertisers manage. Yet we hear horror stories of budgets being blown out with production over-runs and changes. Darren Woolley managing director, of marketing consultancy, TrinityP3 outlines how to build an ad campaign without blowing the budget.
We generally find that these production blowouts are more likely due to poor supplier management rather than the naked greed of the suppliers. Of course, this does not mean there are no longer sharks in the advertising waters, it just means armed with knowledge on costs and processes, you are less likely to get attacked, or worse still, eaten alive.
28 Nov 2011 - 4:00pm
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Helen Hull
Members of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) have raised concerns over the decision by the House of Representatives to legislate seven increases to the employer funded superannuation levy, raising it from 9% of payroll to 12%.
Last week (24 November) twenty six representatives of the nation’s leading employer bodies signed a resolution of protest against the levy which passed the Lower House as part of Labor’s mining tax package due to the lack consultation and engagement with employers.
28 Nov 2011 - 3:19pm
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Helen Hull
The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has voiced its favour of the Coalition’s move to alleviate retailers from the unnecessary burden of having to act as administrators of the paid parental leave scheme.
ARA Executive Director Russell Zimmerman said retailers were in full support of Government-funded paid parental leave but said the red tape associated with acting as paymasters of the scheme and the added business costs to retailers were pointless.
15 Nov 2011 - 4:30pm
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Helen Hull
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims has launched a guide for businesses on carbon price claims.
Speaking to an audience of business and community leaders in WA today (15 November), Sims addressed the ACCC's role in policing claims attributing price rises to the carbon pricing mechanism.
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