Julie Bishop
News and interviews on Julie Bishop including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Tony Abbott announces front bench, Ciobo replaced by Billson as small business spokespersonTuesday, 08 December 2009
Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott has announced the small business ministry has been dumped from the front bench, with Steve Ciobo to be replaced by sustainable development spokesman Bruce Billson. ...
Tony Abbott elected leader of the Liberal Party
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
Tony Abbott has been elected leader of the Liberal Party after beating Malcolm Turnbull by one vote in a party-room vote. ...
MySpace launches music streaming service
Friday, 02 October 2009
MySpace has launched its popular music streaming service in Australia and New Zealand, enabling users to stream thousands of songs from the four major labels and independent groups. ...
Julie Bishop stands down as Shadow Treasurer
Monday, 16 February 2009
Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop will stand down as Shadow Treasurer after assuming the post just four months ago. ...
How SMEs are being mauled by the banks – and why politicians are to blame: Gottliebsen
Friday, 06 February 2009
If they want to create and preserve jobs, both Kevin Rudd/Wayne Swan and Malcolm Turnbull/Julie Bishop are getting it wrong. Indeed one could argue that Swan is an Australian job destroyer. ...
Small business portfolio promoted to Malcolm Turnbull’s shadow cabinet
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Small business will take a more prominent position in Malcolm Turnbull’s shadow ministry, with former small business minister Steven Ciobo retaining his portfolio and being elevated to the shadow cabinet. ...
Malcolm Turnbull topples Brendan Nelson as Liberal leader
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Malcolm Turnbull has seized the Liberal leadership from Brendan Nelson after a surprise party-room vote in Canberra this morning. ...
Opposition backs AWA lite
Friday, 04 April 2008
Individual statutory agreements and an exemption from unfair dismissal laws for small businesses are likely to remain a part of the federal Opposition’s IR policy, Liberal leader Brendan Nelson said yesterday. In comments on Adelaide radio, Nelson said while ...
Small business debate dominates Parliament
Friday, 14 March 2008
Small business took centre stage in Federal Parliament for the first time since the election of the Rudd Government yesterday, with both sides of politics spruiking their pro-business credentials. The Coalition used question time in the house of representatives ...
AWAs on the chopping block
Thursday, 21 February 2008
AWAs could be consigned to the legal dustbin in less than a month following a Coalition shift to allow a Senate inquiry into Labor’s IR laws to finish early. The Coalition had previously sought to prolong the inquiry until as late as 28 April, but Opposition ...
Will Labor’s ITEAs make good business sense?
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Most businesses are likely to move straight to awards and collective agreements rather than utilising the new transitional statutory agreements available under Labor’s proposed laws, IR experts say. Under Labor’s IR plans, AWAs will be abolished and replaced ...
Coalition backdown on AWAs
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
The Coalition appears to have dropped its objection to Labor’s industrial relations legislation and it is now likely AWAs will be abolished once a Senate inquiry into the laws finishes in mid-April. In a press conference held after lunchtime in Canberra today, ...
The key IR cards Labor has laid on the table
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
The first steps in the Government’s makeover of industrial relations have been taken, reports PETER VITALE. Early signs show that business will be dealt more of a reformation than a revolution. ...
Devil in the detail on new employment standards
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Business groups will closely scrutinise new minimum employment standards to be released by the Rudd Government on Thursday to ensure new rights to request family friendly work arrangements do not unduly increase employment costs. Australian Chamber of Commerce ...
Six month reprieve for AWAs?
Monday, 11 February 2008
It looks increasingly likely AWAs will be available to employers and employees at least until 30 June after Family First Senator Steve Fielding expressed concern about scrapping the agreements. Fielding has reportedly called for a Senate inquiry into legislation ...
Labor IR bill to hit Senate speed bump
Wednesday, 06 February 2008
The Coalition may seek to amend Labor’s first tranche of industrial relations reforms to provide for the retention of AWAs, a move that is almost certain to see the legislation blocked in the Senate. Coalition deputy leader Julie Bishop says AWAs pre-date ...
Coalition in the dark on IR
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Some in the SME community are beginning to express concerns about the lack of cohesion in Coalition ranks on industrial relations. Since last year’s election and the ascension of Brendan Nelson to leadership of the Coalition, the opposition has issued a confused ...
WorkChoices is dead: Nelson
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Opposition leader Brendan Nelson has sent up the white flag on Labor’s industrial relations reforms, signalling the Coalition will vote for the proposed laws as long as they are consistent with Labor’s pre-election promises. “WorkChoices is dead,” Nelson said ...
Libs signal new business focus
Friday, 07 December 2007
The new Coalition opposition signalled that it will focus more heavily on rebuilding its support among business owners in announcing its shadow ministry line-up yesterday. Deputy leader Julie Bishop has taken on employment, business and workplace relations ...
Ciobo takes shadow small business ministry
Thursday, 06 December 2007
Low-profile Queensland MP Steven Ciobo will be the new Opposition small business, service economy and tourism spokesman, Liberal leader Brendan Nelson announced today. Relatively inexperienced, it will be Ciobo’s first stint on the frontbenches following his ...
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