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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 24TH MARCH 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 24th March is now available including topics on the following:

Productivity Commission Report deserves a detailed and constructive response 

Ai Group supports changes to structure and operations of Infrastructure Australia

SA apprenticeships and traineeships: employment & supervision requirements

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 17TH MARCH 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 17th March is now available including topics on the following:

Gas plan needed to avoid blackouts, factory closures and household hardship

Plugging skills shortages through diversity ‘a business necessity’

Business models of Electric Vehicles in the post-carbon era

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 10TH MARCH 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 10th March is now available including topics on the following:

Significant changes to paid parental leave

Interest rate decision unfortunate but necessary 

Help improve jobs in the energy sector

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 3rd MARCH 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 3rd March is now available including topics on the following:

Industry treads water in February after a difficult new year

Funding to boost affordable housing investment in the regions

National Accounts point to risk of price-wage spiral 

Victoria’s manufacturers urged to apply for grants

 

Have your say: Are you a Victorian business that produces, provides or critically relies on digital technology products or services?

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 24TH FEBRUARY 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 18th November is now available including topics on the following:

Ai Group to breathe new life into digital transformation tool for SMEs

AEMO Electricity Update

An important new tool to measure your industry performance

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 17TH FEBRUARY 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 18th November is now available including topics on the following:

Potential derailing of Safeguard Mechanism – history repeats

Looking towards an innovative, networked & adaptable National Reconstruction Fund

Jobs and Skills Australia hits the ground running

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 10th FEBRUARY 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 10th FEBRUARY is now available including topics on the following:

Industry contraction accelerates in December/January

RBA interest rate decision

Celebrating 150 years of supporting Australian industry

AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 3rd FEBRUARY 2023

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 3rd December is now available including topics on the following:

 

  • Welcome opportunity to address problems with IR Bill
  • Priorities for Federal Budget 2023-24
  • Welcome changes to the apprenticeship incentives program
  • Events to register for HR Fundamentals: Conducting Workplace Investigations

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 16TH DECEMBER 2022

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 16th December is now available including topics on the following:

 

  • Gas Caps Law: Imperfect, Late, Necessary
  • How to prepare for a data breach
  • Have a listen to the Aigroup podcast The key to building resilient Supply Chains is active risk management

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 2ND DECEMBER 2022

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 18th November is now available including topics on the following:

 

  • Respect at Work Bill addresses unacceptably high rates of sexual harassment
  • Ai Group congratulates Andrews Government on its election victory
  • Upcoming Event to register for Navigating Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 25TH NOVEMBER 2022

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 25th November is now available including topics on the following:

  • National Reconstruction Fund – new vehicle to advance industrial development
  • Award-winner Abbey an inspiration to women in trades
  • Upcoming events to register for – Navigating Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 18TH NOVEMBER 2022

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 18th November is now available including topics on the following:

  • Fee-free TAFE and VET places for South Australians
  • Wage Price Index – wages growth is picking up strongly
  • Upcoming Event to register for – HR Fundamentals Part 4: Managing ill and injured workers

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BSC- Essential Information for Importers and Retailers

BSC has created a B-cycle Information Sheet for importers and retailers.  Please review the information sheet here to get the latest details on the Scheme start date, including batteries in Scheme scope, and levy payment options. 

If you have questions about this process, please contact Brett Buckingham brett@bsc.org.au

AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – Special Budget Edition October 26th 2022

This special Federal Budget edition of the Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 26th October is now available which includes:

  • Ai Groups Pre Budget comments
  • Federal Budget 2022-23: What does it mean for Business
  • All the key Budget measures and how they impact your business including Skills & Training, Higher Education, Industry Policy, Energy, Trade, Circular Economy and Waste, Infrastructure, Defence and defence industry, Support for long-term net migration and Economic and budget outlook. 

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AI GROUP INDUSTRY NEWSLETTER – 21ST OCTOBER 2022

The latest Ai Group Industry Newsletter, 21st October is now available including topics on the following:

  • Business cautions against rushed IR changes
  • Why employees are key to managing health and safety at work
  • World Standards Day
  • Upcoming events to register for – Federal Budget 2022-23: What does it mean for business?

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OPEA – REGISTER NOW – BOM WEBINAR

OPEA – REGISTER NOW FOR SEVERE WEATHER SEASON OUTLOOK FOR QUEENSLAND 2022-23

Register for the Bureau of Meteorology’s Webinar with experts taking an in-depth look at Queensland 2022-23 severe weather season and learn out the Bureau’s outlooks for the months ahead can help you make important decisions for the season.

Click HERE to register.

OPEA – AI GROUP ECONOMICS WEEKLY – 16TH SEPTEMBER 2022

Please find attached our Economics Weekly summarising the major data releases this week.

This week we cover:

  • ABS, Labour Force, Aug 2022
  • ABS, Labour Account, Jun 2022
  • NAB, Monthly Business Survey, Aug 2022
  • Westpac-MI, Consumer Sentiment, Sep 2022
  • ANZ-Roy Morgan, Australian Consumer Confidence, Sep 5-11, 2022

Our CEO outlook for 2023 survey is now open to any employing business in Australia https://surveys.aigroup.com.au/189294?newtest=Y&lang=en. The survey will close Friday 11 November and results published early 2023.

Ai Group Economics Weekly – 16th September 2022

OPEA – AI GROUP ECONOMICS WEEKLY – 9TH SEPTEMBER 2022

Please find attached our Economics Weekly summarising the major data releases this week.

This week we cover:

  • Ai Group, Performance of Services, Aug 2022
  • Ai Group, Performance of Construction, Aug 2022
  • RBA, Monetary Policy Decision, Sep 2022
  • ABS, Australian National Accounts, Jun 2022
  • ABS, International Trade in Goods and Services, Jul 2022

Also, we have recently released our fact sheets on the changing shape of the Australian labour market and work from home and teleworking in Q3 2022.

Ai Group Economics Weekly 9th September 2022

OPEA – AI GROUP ECONOMICS WEEKLY – 2ND SEPTEMBER 2022

Please find attached our Economics Weekly summarising the major data releases this week.

This week we cover:

PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP EXCELLENCE AWARDS

As Australia moves away from waste disposal and into a circular economy, product stewardship will play a key role. Circular economy will impact every industry sector.

Product stewardship acknowledges those involved in designing, manufacturing, and selling products have a responsibility to ensure those products or materials are managed in a way that reduces their environmental and human health impacts, throughout the life-cycle and across the supply chain. It aims to drive environmentally beneficial outcomes through good design and clean manufacturing, including the use of components and materials that are easier to recover, reuse and recycle.

The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence will be hosting the second Product Stewardship Excellence Awards in 2022. The awards aim to recognise excellence and action in product stewardship and seek to raise the profile of stewardship in business, government and NGOs.

There are six award categories open for entry in 2022. An additional category, Product Stewardship Champion of the Year, will be directly conferred by the Centre of Excellence.

The 2022 award categories are:

  1. Best Stewardship Outcomes – Collective Scheme
  2. Best Stewardship Outcomes – Individual Business or Brand (Large 200+ employees)
  3. Best Stewardship Outcomes – Individual Business or Brand (SME < 199 employees)
  4. Excellence in Digitalisation for Product Stewardship
  5. Excellence in Emissions Reduction through Product Stewardship
  6. Excellence in Design for Product Stewardship

 

To view the awards prospectus and apply for the awards, click here:https://stewardshipexcellence.com.au/awards/

BOM Climate Outlooks August – October 2022

The Bureau of Meteorology have released their latest Climate Outlooks for August through to October with the following overview:

  • August to October rainfall is likely to be above median for most of Australia, but below median for western Tasmania and an area of south-western WA.
  • August to October maximum temperatures are likely to be above median across the tropics and parts of western and southern Australia, but below median for parts of the east and southern interior.
  • Minimum temperatures for August to October are likely to be above median nationwide.
  • The emerging negative Indian Ocean Dipole event, along with warmer than average waters around northern Australia, and a neutral to cool phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, are likely to be influencing this outlook.

You can also read more information on their website here, and watch the latest Climate and Water Outlook video here.

CSIRO Our Future World Report

The CSIRO have released a once-in-a-decade ‘Our Future World’ report, that we would like to share with you for your information.  

The report identifies seven global megatrends that hold the key to the challenges and opportunities ahead to 2042 with a view to guide long-term investment, strategic and policy directions across government, industry, the not-for-profit sector and the broader Australian community.

Please click here to view the report.