Paul Keating

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

Monday, 28 May 2012

How a sensible plan to meet skills shortages became another Labor shambles: Kohler

Despite a general understanding of the labour shortage in the mining sector, politicians have managed to stuff up the Enterprise Mining Agreement while union leaders once again show a total lack of leadership.

Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Can Wayne Swan restore competition to the banking market? Maley

While the big four banks exploit their new market power, there's little Treasurer Wayne Swan can do – except, perhaps, study the mistakes of the recent past.

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Survey shows SMEs concerned about finding staff, Shares up: Economy Roundup

World leaders gather at the G20 summit to discuss strategies for emerging from the global economic crisis.

Wednesday, 15 April 2009

RedBalloon rising

Naomi Simson explains how she made the transition from home to big business, and reveals tips to save time and costs and stay connected.

Monday, 06 April 2009

Billionaire Lindsay Fox to lead jobs taskforce

Kevin Rudd has asked Lindsay Fox and Bill Kelty to advise business owners and communities about saving and creating jobs.

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Fool's gold

Despite the apparent surge in the sharemarket, now is not the time to believe that we have hit the bottom.

Thursday, 19 March 2009

Five mistakes businesses make in a recession

It is a bit late to tighten the belt if the recession is past. In fact this is a great time to invest in growth.

Friday, 27 February 2009

Good news weak

Get your terms of trade, supporting services and quality relationships right. You’ll need all this in place.

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

The reality check we had to have

The good times seem to be coming to an end, but remember – we will be left with some long-term lessons out of the whole mess. MICHAEL PHILLIPS

Tuesday, 03 February 2009

More companies raise cash ahead of recession, shares gain ground: Economy roundup

The rush by big companies to raise money to shore up their balance sheets ahead of the recession is continuing.

Wednesday, 03 December 2008

iPhone, Harvey Norman and Kevin Rudd top Google search results

Retailer Harvey Norman, Apple’s iPhone, US president-elect Barack Obama and Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice have one thing in common – they top Google’s most popular search terms for 2008.

Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Talk of a recession is premature, and of a depression downright ridiculous. Here’s why: Ruthven

As we near the end of the first decade of this new century, Australia has relatively few financial and economic issues of the sort that are tearing the US apart.

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Innovating out of a downturn

Tough times means innovation is key to future success. NAOMI SIMSON

Monday, 03 November 2008

How central banks and governments are saving us from financial disaster: Kohler

Say what you like about the measures being taken by governments and central banks this year; they have learned from history.

Tuesday, 02 September 2008

Bearish in Britain, bullish in the US – what’s the real outlook for global growth? Kohler

The Australian profit season tends to support the growing impression that, so far at least, the impact of the credit crunch on the real economy has been surprisingly limited.

Friday, 25 January 2008

How Rudd will try to keep wages down

Monday, 10 December 2007

Peter Scanlon’s new focus

Monday, 22 October 2007

Debate reveals lack of vision for business

Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Never had it so good

Any minute now we’ll be hearing soothing words from the Prime Minister that we’ve never had it so good. Funny, I’ve heard those words before…

Thursday, 22 March 2007

It’s time

Just when people and businesses are suffering from time compression, we should be learning how to take a longer view.