Barnaby Joyce

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News and interviews on Barnaby Joyce including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.

Friday, 26 February 2010

Creating new customers

The next six months are going to be an increasingly difficult prospect for traditional small and medium enterprises that have survived the GFC.

Friday, 12 February 2010

We need to wake up – the world’s huge debt binge is becoming frightening: Kohler

Governments, including Australia's, have grossly understated the scale of their fiscal problems. Even worse, as the wanton stimulus spending comes back to bite us, the Rudd government is still spending.

Friday, 05 February 2010

Good one, Glenn

Glenn Stevens is to be congratulated for his Sun Tzu-like capacity to retain the element of surprise.

Monday, 01 February 2010

The politics of ageing on show in Intergenerational Report: Keane

Crikey.com’s political expert Bernard Keane examines the politics behind the Rudd Government’s new Intergenerational Report.

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Lending finance rises, WorleyParsons profit downgraded: Economy Roundup

Engineering firm WorleyParsons downgrades its profit guidance for the 2009-10 year, saying decreased demand for its services is to blame.

Monday, 04 January 2010

Tax tempters

You can tell it’s an election year when politicians are promising tax cuts for small businesses.

Monday, 21 December 2009

Failure at Copenhagen prompts Opposition attack on Government

Delegates at the summit reached a “political accord” to limit global warming to just two degrees this century, but without any binding agreement as to how the goal would be implemented.

Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Has the US finally touched the bottom? Kohler

A top US pundit is arguing that the 'hollowing out of American business' will benefit American industry to an extent that few currently grasp. Let's hope he's right.

Monday, 14 December 2009

Why America truly is an “empire at risk”: Kohler

China is openly gaming the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to further impoverish and encircle the United States, adding to the pain of chronic US debt.

Tuesday, 08 December 2009

Tony Abbott announces front bench, Ciobo replaced by Billson as small business spokesperson

Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott has announced a new front bench, less than one week after former leader Malcolm Turnbull was voted out of his position.

Friday, 27 November 2009

The emission trading scheme will be a disaster for business: Gottliebsen

The government's carbon trading legislation will strip billions out of Australian company earnings. It is little wonder the full horror of this policy proposal is starting to dawn on some Liberal Party members.

Thursday, 09 April 2009

Shares gain ground, Bank of Queensland profit slump, Japan stimulus talks: Economy roundup

The Australian sharemarket has opened 1.1% higher today after overseas markets were buoyed by news that the US Government will help life insurers.

Friday, 13 March 2009

Turnbull wants more protection for small business on unfair dismissal

Malcolm Turnbull is demanding that the Rudd Government lift the threshold under which small business are exempt from unfair dismissal laws.

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Emissions trading scheme under attack from Greens and business

The Government is bracing for a fight over its emissions trading scheme.

Monday, 13 October 2008

ACCC chief warns small businesses could be prosecuted for predatory pricing

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel has warned the regulator could be forced to prosecute a small business for predatory pricing after the Senate rejected changes to the controversial Birdsville amendment to the Trade Pra

Thursday, 11 September 2008

Craig Emerson dismisses concerns about unions representing independent contractors

The Federal Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Craig Emerson, has dismissed concerns that unions may coerce independent contractors into collective bargaining as “alarmist”.

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

‘Birdsville’ predatory pricing laws set to stay

It is looking increasingly likely that the predatory pricing law known as the Birdsville Amendment will stay on the books, following a Coalition shadow cabinet decision to voye against changes that would see it removed.

Monday, 25 August 2008

Senate could scuttle Labor’s predatory pricing changes

Barnaby Joyce’s Birdsville amendment to predatory pricing laws could avoid the death sentence depending on the outcome of an Opposition shadow cabinet meeting this morning.