This release presents key indicators on the incidence of use of information technology and innovation in Australian business, as collected by the 2006-07 Business Characteristics Survey. One finding is that over 90% of businesses with Internet access use a broadband connection. This release presents key indicators on the incidence of use of information technology and...

The Minister intends to introduce a Bill to amend the Migration Act 1958 to reform the sponsorship regime for Subclass 457 and a range of other temporary visas that include work rights. This bill and associated regulation presents the opportunity to clarify sponsor obligations and provide further fair and transparent mechanisms to help deal with...

Teaching-for-creativity is rarely an explicit objective of the learning and assessment process. In Europe, collaborative research projects have been recently set up to address this lack of acknowledgment or explicitness. Australian universities lag behind in this respect. However, Australian HEIs are now showing increasing commitment to creative capacity building as an outcome of undergraduate teaching.

Clarence Valley in northern NSW has launched an Australian first with Council adopting the Clarence Creative business plan. The aim is to build a cluster that enhances marketing, product development, and business capacity whilst establishing the Clarence Valley as a creative hub. A volunteer working group has supported the project, the first of its type...

The term unfair dismissal is taken to mean the dismissal of the employee due to stated unsatisfactory employment performance but which is later found to be ‘unfair’. Callus and Sutcliffe defined unfair dismissal as: “A situation in which an employee, who has been dismissed summarily from a job, is subsequently found by a court or...