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Employment

Employment precincts have a greater economic value than you probably think, and they will play an essential role in Australia’s post-COVID economy
As Australia's economy starts to recover from a COVID-19 recession, voices calling to cut red tape and increase flexibility in employment zones are getting louder. Two recurrent myths often espoused t...

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Co-operative and Mutual Enterprises (CMEs) contribute billions to the Australian economy and play a vital and quantifiable role locally and internationally, shows new report
In 2019-20, co-operative and mutual enterprises (CMEs) contributed a whopping $90 billion towards Australian incomes, $20 billion towards Australia’s GDP and 180,000 full-time equivalent jobs reveals ...

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Government, Housing

Fear mongering over property taxes helps nobody: developers and the community can both win when we share the windfalls
The new windfall gains tax has attracted special ire from the property lobby, but this fear mongering helps nobody. Both developers and the community can win.
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