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	Welcome to the Business Council of Australia
		The Business Council of Australia is an association of the CEOs of 100 of Australia’s leading corporations with a combined workforce of one million people.
		It was established in 1983 as a forum for Australia’s business leaders to contribute to public policy debates to build Australia as the best place in which to live, to learn, to work and do business.
		The BCA has launched a set of reform standards to assess policy commitments made by political parties during the 2007 federal election campaign.
	www.bca.com.au (230 words)

	Business Council of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Business Council of Australia (BCA) represents the chief executives of approximately 100 large Australian corporations.
		It was formed in 1983 by the merger of the Business Roundtable - a spin-off of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia - and the Australian Industry Development Association.
		While all members of the Business Council have equal representation, decision-making is often delegated to the Board, Council Task Forces and the Secretariat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Business_Council_of_Australia (343 words)

	Reconciliation Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reconciliation Australia is the non-government, not-for-profit foundation established in January 2001 to provide a continuing national focus for reconciliation.
		He is Professor and Chairperson of the Australian National University's Institute for Indigenous Australia, and Chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre.
		She is a Council Member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Dhimurru Land Management and the Nambara School Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reconciliation_Australia (574 words)

	Business Roundtable Trade Resource Center
		Business Council of Australia - The Business Council of Australia is an association of chief executives of leading Australian corporations with a combined national workforce of one million people.
		The Business Council of Australia's aspiration is that Australia should be the best place in the world to live, learn, work and do business.
		Business Roundtable (www.businessroundtable.org) is an association of chief executive officers of leading corporations with a combined workforce of more than 10 million employees and $4 trillion in annual revenues.
	trade.businessroundtable.org /trade_2005/doha/wblg.html (483 words)

	Business Council of Australia
		Now that the BCA (Business Council of Australia’s) has decided to waste shareholders’ money by running a useless advertising campaign to convince employees to put their trust in the benevolence of these uber-executives, it is time ponder the economic competence of this august and self-appointed elitist organisation.
		It is not that long ago that the BCA produced Avoiding boom-bust: Macro-economic reform for a globalised economy.
		More widespread profit sharing would ensure that the burden of adjustment could be shared broadly through the economy in the form of lower business profitability and small, short-term reductions in wages, rather than through plant closures, sackings, abandoned recruitment and the resulting higher unemployment.
	www.brookesnews.com /050711bca.html (882 words)

	Australia-China Business Council Address - Australian export - Australian Trade Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I'd firstly like to thank the Australia China Business Council and its partners for organising today's event, and for their work in fostering what is, and what will increasingly prove to be, a fundamentally important relationship for Australia.
		Most recently, URS Australia and Cox Partners were awarded a $615 million contract as part of a consortium to build a world-class sailing facility over the former Beihai shipyard in Qingdao.
		I'd like to thank the China-Australia business council for their hard work in adding to this shared purpose, and for generating the good faith and positive conviction that underpins such a robust - and exciting - trading relationship.
	www.austrade.gov.au /corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_CORPXID0015-2_-3_PWB110487912-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html (2115 words)

	Queensland Business Review - Publishing Services
		The Business Council has begun running the first of a series of advertisements throughout Australia explaining why economic reform is vital for Australia's future.
		The BCA's advertisements, which are being paid for by its members, are aimed at extending this important message to the wider community at a time when reform is uppermost in the community's mind.
		BCA members employ nearly 1 million Australians, account for 30% of the nation's exports and contribute approximately $340 billion to the Australian economy.
	www.qbr.com.au /index.cfm?storyid=25037&cp=displaystory.cfm (515 words)

	Australia - Indonesia Business Council, 23 July 1996
		Australia was certainly motivated by security concerns as much as by human sentiment and solidarity when it involved itself in a complicated and delicate diplomatic process which led to the preservation and international recognition of the independence which indonesia proclaimed in 1945.
		In spite of such crises, australia and indonesia continued to interact economically, culturally, and then continued to broaden and deepen their political cooperation in the face of a rapidly changing global and regional environment.
		Australia's growing closeness to asia- was eloquently manifested when, at the turn of the last decade, it hosted the conference which saw the founding of apec.
	www.kbri-canberra.org.au /archives/1996/072396.htm (1262 words)

	The World Today - More business innovation needed: study
		Australia's peak big business lobby is warning that Australia is falling behind its international competitors because it's failing to stimulate innovative thinking in business.
		The Business Council of Australia has today called on the Federal Government to expand its innovation policy beyond just encouraging research and development, saying that's an approach from the 19th century.
		The Business Council of Australia, which represents most of the country's top 100 corporations, argues that the Australian definition is far too narrow.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2006/s1590323.htm (656 words)

	AM Archive - Business Council of Australia outlines election priorities
		The council's president, Dr John Schubert, told the dinner that he is disturbed that Australia's education performance is falling behind OECD standards, with the council now calling for more spending on education and training.
		Australia's business leadership believes that this is the most important medium- and long-term issue that we have, and will strongly endorse investment in education and training which is carefully focussed and designed to improve the long-term skills and capacities of our people.
		And Australia's public and private spending is also lagging behind the OECD average e 5.5 per cent of GDP spent on education versus the average of 5.7.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s389306.htm (586 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Business Council Of Australia Innovation Paper Highlights Government Complacency
		The release today of the Business Council of Australia's (BCA) paper "New Concepts in Innovation: the Keys to a Growing Australia" is a welcome and timely addition to the public debate over Australia's economic future.
		The BCA is particularly critical of the approach taken by the Howard/Costello Government and its lack of appreciation of the needs of Australian industry.
		As the BCA paper recognises, RandD is only one area of innovation, which it defines as "using knowledge to find new ways to create and bring about change for the better".
	www.alp.org.au /media/0306/msii120.php (449 words)

	Crikey Website - The Business Council turns 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Business Council of Australia is turning 21 and all in all the Australian business world is a very different place to the one which saw the BCA's creation.
		The BCA cannot bring itself to criticise many of its members for their outrageous fees and charges in super, and cannot understand why there has been an upsurge and shareholder activism (which they had warned in the 80s, would flow from the growth in industry-union based super funds).
		That was striking in his appearance on the ABC Inside Business a couple of week ago: For all the relevance of the Council's new policy ideas, Morgan was most uncertain and highly defensive on the big business issues at the moment: corporate pay, board responsibility, transparency and disclosure.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2004/03/22-0003.html (1773 words)

	Nichtregierungsorganisationen, international - Australien
		The Business Council of Australia is an association of Chief Executives from leading Australian corporations with a combined national workforce of almost one million people.
		The challenge for Australia is to remain competitive in a global marketplace against a backdrop of rapid and increasing technological change.
		The Business Council of Australia has recommended Australia adopt a population growth rate that will see the country’s population grow to around 36 million by 2050, as well as the establishment of a national body to co-ordinate population policy issues.
	www.gesis.org /socioguide/spezialthemen/aag/Institutionen/Nichtregierungsorganisationen/Australien.htm (992 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Address To The Business Council Of Australia
		The involvement and support of the business community is critical if the Australian community is to reach a consensus on important questions regarding national priorities.
		In my time in government throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Business Council was a key partner in the wide ranging reforms that set Australia up for the long run of economic growth that we have been enjoying since 1991.
		This Council's role would be to advise on priority projects and to allocate funds in a fair, equitable and transparent manner to maximise the national benefit — free of political interference and pork barrelling.
	www.alp.org.au /media/0305/spefll020.php?tv=off (3074 words)

	The Commonwealth Treasurer – Speeches - Address to the Business Council of Australia [13/12/2001]
		Australia's economic growth this year comes at a time when the US economy and many of our other major trading partners are in, or close to, recession.
		Australia on the other hand has witnessed subdued investment over the past two years, with the outlook for new investment quite positive.
		In international terms, expenditure on education in Australia equates to around 5.5 per cent of GDP, which is equal to the OECD average (when differences in expenditure on pre-school education are accounted for).
	www.treasurer.gov.au /tsr/content/speeches/2001/007.asp (2138 words)

	The Business Council of Australia's Case for Population Growth: An Ecological Critique
		One such group is the business community represented by the Business Council of Australia (BCA) which desires a much larger population.
		They point out that Australia has not achieved ecologically sustainable development (ESD), that the environment is being degraded, and that population growth is one of the underlying pressures causing degradation.
		Business has responded by sponsoring substantial debates in the Australian newspaper, by forming the Australian Population Institute (APop) to espouse a greater Australia with more people, and by commissioning research on the population-environment nexus.
	www.mnforsustain.org /australia_business_council_case_for_growth_critique.htm (3395 words)

	BCA fights social responsibility law - Business - Business - theage.com.au
		THE Business Council of Australia has come out against Government plans to create legislation forcing directors to meet certain levels of corporate social responsibility (CSR).
		In a submission to the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services, the BCA says problems will arise if the state tries to govern these areas and the greatest social contribution made by corporations is through employment, the goods and services they create and the wealth these produce.
		The report highlights that in 2001-02, BCA companies contributed $195 million and 219,000 staff hours to social and community programs and a further $292 million and 425,000 staff hours to environmental initiatives.
	www.theage.com.au /news/business/bca-fights-social-responsibility-law/2005/10/16/1129401144710.html (435 words)

	30th Annual General Meeting of the Australia-Philippines Business Council State of Play Briefing - Australian export - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Australia was a major provider of live cattle but a number of factors, such as the prevalence of cheap ‘Carabeef’ from India, has seen this trade decline significantly over the past 4 years to the point last year where it was worth a mere A$31 million.
		Australia is well placed to supply essential oils, natural products and nutraceuticals into this industry as it looks to international markets such as Hong Kong, buoyed no doubt by the arrival of several low cost air carriers that will increase the attractiveness of the Philippines for health tourism.
		Good business is being done, there are early signs of an encouraging economic and political reform agenda, and we have reason for quiet confidence in Australia’s ability to widen and deepen our penetration of the market by being selective and focussed.
	www.austrade.gov.au /corporate/layout/0,,0_S1-1_CORPXID0015-2_-3_PWB110611037-4_-5_-6_-7_,00.html (2733 words)

	Australia Korea Business Council
		The Australia Korea Business Council, in promoting two-way trade and investment with The Republic of Korea, seeks to foster economic co-operation and understanding between the business communities of Australia and Korea.
		The Australia Korea Business Council is dedicated to assisting Australian enterprise develop and maintain open and co-operative relations between businesses in Australia and Korea.
		The Australia Korea Business Council's aim is to provide a national focus in encouragement and support of Australian enterprises in their pursuit of opportunities for bi-lateral trade and investment with Korea.
	www.akbc.com.au (644 words)

	Franchise Council of Australia - Franchise News - Small Business Ministerial Council Meeting
		The Council supports further efforts by jurisdictions to ensure that home-based business issues are understood and form the basis of a cooperative and national approach to improvements in regulation, policy, programs and service delivery.
		The Council agreed to continue to monitor progress of the banks in addressing small business banking issues, including the need for guidelines for switching banking services, more customised service, and information which is readily understood on banking products.
		The Council notes that the Victorian Government is undertaking stakeholder consultations with key smash repairer and general insurance industry representatives, and along with the Commonwealth would welcome input from other states and territories.
	www.franchise.org.au /franchisenews?fuseaction=info&id=99&ct_id=0&i=2 (858 words)

	Address to the Business Council of Australia Sydney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It’s a great pleasure to share this very important occasion with the Business Council and to share with many of you some reminiscences on what has been achieved in this country and what has been done to lift the economic performance of Australia over the last 20 years.
		We need as a country to make further progress on energy market reform to properly marshal for the benefit of this country the extraordinary energy reserves that we have and to further breakdown the wastefulness of state boundaries and duplicated regulatory regimes which do enormous damage to the proper utilisation of those resources.
		We need to continue the momentum that’s come out of the Backing Australia’s Ability programme in the areas of research and innovation, part of that of course is tied up with the higher education reforms of which I’ve spoken earlier.
	www.pm.gov.au /News/speeches/speech508.html (1212 words)

	Address to the Business Council of Australia Aitken Hill, Melbourne - 03 March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I think there is general support amongst reasonable people for further significant changes, and I have been informed, by Hugh and others, with the views of the Business Council and we are going to give them an enormous amount of consideration.
		But it is part of a process, and just as your ways of doing business have changed over the last 20 years, so in an area like this I think we’re going to have to change our attitudes.
		The process of reform is ongoing, and you are quite right as a Business Council to be described as: ‘Turn up the heat on Howard’, ‘Keep the Government’s nose to the grindstone on Reform’.
	www.pm.gov.au /news/speeches/speech1263.html (2284 words)

	The politics of big business
		Responding to Howard Government suggestions that a Labour win at the next election could lead to higher interest rates and industrial unrest is a tough call for the Business Council of Australia and its president, Hugh Morgan but the organisation is determined to stay out of politics.
		While the BCA, which represents 100 of Australia's leading companies, is often perceived as pro-Liberal, the organisation is not shy in calling for reforms left undone by past and present governments.
		I mean, the Business Council represents in terms of direct employees, nearly a million employees and about $340 billion of sales, so it's an important part of the community.
	businesssunday.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=18920 (1096 words)

	Australia Thailand Business Council
		For Australian business, Thailand became an attractive business prospect where tariffs on more than 75 percent of Australia’s exports now have a zero rating and the progressive schedule for the reduction of tariffs on the balance has been clearly stated.
		The reversal within 48 hours of the former decision validated the view that it was naïve and inept as it was said to have been undertaken in response to significant currency speculation that was never identified.
		The Australia-Thailand Business Council has a mission to convey to Australian industry that the time is NOW, rather than in the future, to aggressively pursue opportunities for bilateral trade and investment.
	www.aust-thai.org.au (606 words)

	Business Council of Australia - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Established in 1983 to provide a forum for Australian business leadership to contribute directly to public policy debates, the Business Council aims to help make Australia the best place in the world to live, to learn, to work and to do business.
		Thursday, 22 June 2006: The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has welcomed yesterday’s release of the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Inquiry into Corporate Responsibility and Triple-Bottom-Line reporting.
		Wednesday, 5 April 2006: The annual strategy forum of Chief Executive Members of the Business Council has recommitted the BCA to pursuing its ‘four reform steps’ agenda, with the emphasis over the next 12 months on making sure reform commitments made by governments over the past year are implemented in a timely way.
	www.bca.com.au /content.asp (351 words)

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