The Rudd government is making the assumption that a so-called “super profits tax” won’t deter investment. But to tax major success is generally to tax real and often unusual effort.
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06/05/2010
The Economic and Political Overview (EPO) previews the Australian economy and politics - at state and federal levels - for the year ahead. This dovetails with the EPO research report publication providing senior executives with insights and information on the operating environment for the next 12 months.
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17/02/2010
CEDA's Big Issues project identifies major challenges for Australia over the next five to ten years. In its third year the concerns ranked highest were population growth, water and energy, all major long-term policy challenges for Australia and the world.
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01/12/2009
The Minister for Tourism, the Hon. Martin Ferguson AM MP, launched the National Long-Term Tourism Strategy at a breakfast in Perth hosted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) and the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) on 15 December 2009.
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01/12/2009
CEDA first proposed a rise in the pension age to 67 in an information paper by Dr David Knox, Pensions for Longer Life: Linking Australia's pension age with life expectancy (2007). CEDA's chief executive David Byers said the federal budget decision to increase the pension age not only reflected how the world is changing, but will boost the economy, encourage more people in the workforce and ease the tax bill that Australians will have to pay in the years ahead.
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13/05/2009
Sir Rod Eddington , who also chairs Infrastructure Australia, addressed more than 400 CEDA guests in Melbourne, in a wide-ranging presentation that touched on public transport, infrastructure and the liveability of cities - in his view, all underscored by a carbon-constrained future
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12/12/2008
CEDA Chief Executive, Melinda Cilento, sat down with Wesfarmers CEO, Rob Scott, to discuss his company's corona virus response.
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This opinion piece by CEDA, Chief Executive, Professor the Hon. Stephen Martin was published online by The Australian Financial Review on 20 August, 2013.
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Former chair of the Commonwealth Grants Commission and member of CEDA’s Council on Economic Policy, Greg Smith, joined University of Melbourne Tax and Transfer Institute Professor, Miranda Stewart, for a conversation on economic recovery after COVID-19 moderated by CEDA CEO, Melinda Cilento.
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