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Eighth in our series on the True Cost of Exporting is the cost of human resources, whether hiring someone for your export business in Australia or overseas. Exporters are among Australia’s best employers but there’s a lot of research and cost considerations that go into making it that way.
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Favouring local products and services in government procurement on the premise of saving Australian jobs will damage Australia’s reputation as a trading nation, says Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner. While the issue will generate a strong public reaction, he said the unions needed to look into the longer term. “If we actually tilt the playing [...]
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned that failure to act on employment issues will lead to social unrest and conflict, in his address at the International Labour Organisation Global Jobs Crisis summit in Geneva yesterday. “Regulation of globalisation is the central issue,” he said. “The ILO must have its word to say with the WTO [World [...]
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Austrade chief economist Tim Harcourt has supported Minister for Trade Simon Crean’s stance against the ACTU on the issue of trade protectionism. Harcourt and Crean are both former employees of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who have since moved into the trade arena in the public service. In his most recent column, Harcourt recalls [...]
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NSW Premier Nathan Rees last night launched the state’s 2009 Export Awards with an acknowledgement of the role export plays in the NSW economy. Citing the figure that one in five jobs are export-related, Rees said the government’s immediate focus was on saving and creating jobs and that “exports will be crucial to building a [...]
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NSW secondary institutions and students last month received the results of the 2008 Higher School Certificate. For the 13th consecutive year, James Ruse Agricultural High School took the top spot, calculated by the school that has the highest percentage of students in the top 10 percent of the state. But if you take a look [...]
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