Hundreds of occupational licences and permits are to be reviewed by the state government's key economic regulator, with the potential to save consumers tens of millions of dollars.
Australia's major banks are under mounting pressure today, with a draft report from the Productivity Commission raising doubts about competition levels as regulators apply more scrutiny to three of the 'big four'.
Business needs to be unshackled from red tape to compete with technology, while lower tax would boost wages growth, Richard Goyder told today's Success & Leadership breakfast.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed as "complete and utter waffle" Western Australian federal Labor MPs' submission to an inquiry into the GST.
OPINION: The perverse incentives created by the application of horizontal fiscal equalisation emerged clearly during a recent Productivity Commission inquiry.
About 18,000 local businesses and key leaders have backed the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA's GST reform submissions, which were put forward to the Productivity Commission today.
The gap between the state's minimum wage and the national floor should be reduced to prevent putting low-paid workers at risk of job losses, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA's submission to the upcoming state wage case.
Some of Western Australia's lowest income residents may soon be able to access solar panels and other energy efficient devices following the announcement of a $250 million national package aimed at improving existing and helping build greener community housing.
The federal government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, released last week, has been well received by Western Australia's business community, despite mixed evidence that publicly funded incentives for research affect growth.
The inclusion of the family home in means testing for the age pension would be one of a number of ways to pare back a recent expansion of middle and upper class welfare, according to two recent reports.
SPECIAL REPORT: As the energy construction boom winds down, policy makers must get the settings right to prepare for future investment, while energy players mull the best way to allocate scarce capital.
A scaling back of penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers on Sundays was among the major recommendations in the Productivity Commission's draft workplace relations framework released today.
The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission has published its first report card on regulatory compliance of Australian charities, and both the sector and the ACNC have performed well by
The Productivity Commission has flagged reform of the minimum wage, penalty rates and enterprise agreements in its workplace relations review issues paper, which was accidentally released early today.
The state government's farm finance concessional loans scheme has been expanded to allow loans for debt restructuring, and to farmers in areas that are not rainfall deficient.
The Australian dairy industry would not benefit from adoption of a Fonterra-style ‘national champion', as in New Zealand, and suggestions otherwise are not consistent with market realities, according to a recent Productivity Commission report.
The Productivity Commission has called for a series of reforms to improve the competitiveness of the dairy industry, and warned that the federal government's drought assistance measures would have costly unintended consequences.
The size of state and territory subsidies to the mining and resources sector has been dramatically overstated, according to a report released today prepared by Michael Schur of global firm Castalia Strategic Advisors.
The Civil Contractors Federation Western Australia has backed a Productivity Commission report recommending large infrastructure projects be unbundled into smaller packages to encourage competition among contractors.
