EPBC single touch approval: sensible and long overdue reform
The Property Council of Australia has strongly welcomed the Federal Government’s response to the interim report into Australia’s environmental protection legislation.
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Businesses on board Government’s push into hydrogen
The Australian Government’s drive to build a clean and competitive hydrogen industry continues to gain momentum.
Construction industry contracts at slower pace in June 2020
The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association Australian Performance of Construction Index (Australian PCI®) rose by 10.6 points to 35.5 in June (2020), indicating that business conditions remained negative across the construction industry but the pace of contraction eased from the record lows experienced since March…
Trade & anti-dumping
Mark Vassella, BlueScope Managing Director and CEO, discusses how Australia needs to sharpen the focus on its anti-dumping regime if it wants to keep a domestic manufacturing sector as the nation recovers from the coronavirus.
Resource industry’s industrial relations reforms
Providing industrial security to new major projects and streamlining enterprise bargaining into a few simple steps, are amongst the priority reforms taken by the resources and energy industry into the Australian Government’s industrial relations working groups.
Conventional gas framework needs broad support to work
As the Victorian parliament prepares to consider the Petroleum Amendment Bill, the Australian Industry Group has warned that decisions taken will shape whether the state faces another gas crunch in coming years, pushing up costs and reducing supply for both community and business users.
COVID-19 yet to Fully Impact ABS Finance Data
“The number of loans to owner occupiers for established homes fell by 6.3 per cent during April 2020,” commented HIA Chief Economist, Tim Reardon.
Housing weighing heavily on economy
“In a quarter that largely preceded the COVID-19 disruption, residential building activity chalked up the sixth consecutive quarterly contraction in the volume of building work done. The persistent credit squeeze throughout 2019 contributed to home building activity dropping back to levels last seen in 2014,”…
Building a stronger and cleaner post-pandemic Australia
Our diverse organisations together call for support for COVID economic recovery to urgently stimulate jobs and to rebuild a sustainable and strong economy.
Commercial construction forecast to suffer steep decline
The commercial construction sector is facing a devastating downturn due to the impact of COVID-19 unless governments act to provide stimulus.
Half a Million Jobs at Risk
New forecasts say new home building will fall by almost 50 per cent, putting half a million jobs at risk over the next year, said HIA.
Construction index plunges in April 2020 to record low level
The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association Australian Performance of Construction Index (Australian PCI®) dropped by 16.3 points to 21.6 in April 2020, pointing to the weakest overall performance for the construction industry since the survey began in September 2005 (readings below 50 indicate contraction in…