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Report

Australia's international business survey 2015 report


Australia’s International Business Survey 2015 (AIBS 2015) is the second in a series of studies of Australia's international business activity. Commissioned by the Export Council of Australia (ECA) with the support of Austrade and EFIC (Export Finance and Insurance Corporation), AIBS 2015 was conducted by the University of Sydney between October and December 2014.
Report

Promoting compliance with superannuation guarantee obligations


The audit assessed the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office's activities to promote employer compliance with Superannuation Guarantee obligations. Summary The Australian National Audit Office adopted the following high‐level criteria in its assessment:
Report

A smart move: future-proofing Australia’s workforce by growing skills in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)


While technology and innovation are transforming Australia's economy, they are also the solution to the country's workforce and growth challenge, argues this report. Overview After a sustained period of economic prosperity, Australia is facing some tough challenges. Slowing growth, declining real wages, falling productivity and end of the mining boom to name a few. Businesses...
Discussion paper

Contestability in public services - an alternative to outsourcing


The public don’t like monopolies. And they are suspicious of them in the public sector as well as the private sector. Sometimes there is no other way of organising the production and delivery of goods and services, but we all know from experience that monopolies are generally unresponsive to the needs of customers and service...