The Government announced that businesses who have claimed under the Export Market Development Grant Scheme are expected be reimbursed in full this grant year.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has used her state visit to the USA to pressure President Barack Obama to conclude the Doha Round of trade talks after a decade of stalled attempts. During her visit to Washington, Gillard met with Obama to discuss trade agreements between the two nations, among other priority topics. In a speech [...]
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The Federal Government today released a draft National Land Freight Strategy to address cargo bottlenecks that affected profits during the resources boom. Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said the plan would lower the cost of moving consumer goods and recoup billions of dollars of lost export earnings from the last boom. “This leads to [...]
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The Parliamentary Secretary for Trade Justine Elliot has announced the launch of a program to help Australian businesswomen get involved in international trade. The updated Women in Global Business program provides training and education, networking and trade and investment opportunities, connecting women both in Australian and overseas. The resources and activities delivered through the program [...]
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In recent times there has been a considerable debate and discussion on free trade. People are questioning whether the bilateral trade agreements entered into over the last six to eight years have borne fruit and if now is the time to focus our attention on multilateral agreements. Treasury has been quoted as saying that current [...]
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has greenlighted uranium exports to Russia, reviving a controversial deal initially brokered by the Howard government. Gillard ratified an agreement with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on 12 November at the G20 summit in Seoul. Originally the deal was blocked by a parliamentary committee which demanded Russia met a series of safety [...]
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Reading Thomas Friedman’s seminal book The World is Flat should be compulsory for all those aspire to lead our country. It is a book that explains the how, the why and, importantly, the effects of technological change to the world’s economy. Why, with the ubiquitous spread of technology, it doesn’t matter where your business operates. [...]
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Qatar, a tiny Gulf state in the Middle East, is a relative newcomer on Australia’s export radar, but this ambitious Arab emirate is no mere blip on the screen. With around 15 percent of the world’s proven reserves of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Qatar is focused, financed and ready to do business. This year, the [...]
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I have to admit that I’m really going to miss Kevin Rudd. Yes, I know he had to go for all kinds of domestic, parochial, poll-driven, factional and political reasons but, for a brief shining moment, Australia stood tall on the world stage, with our Mandarin-speaking Prime Minister rubbing shoulders with leaders of countries of [...]
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The Australia Malaysia Business Council (AMBC) has elected a new national president, Larry Gould. Gould is the chief executive of Australia-wide Business Training (awbt), a Melbourne-based training organisation that provides learning and development programs for clients in Australia, Malaysia and New Zealand. Gould said he is honoured to serve the council in this capacity, and [...]
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