2010 Media Releases

November

12-Nov-2010 Banks Public Enemy #No 1 as NAB and Westpac Hikes Rates (63 KB)

10-Nov-2010 ANZ follows in Conga Line of Arrogant Bank Rate Rises (61 KB)

03-Nov-2010 Retailers Call for ‘Revolution’ with Canadian Style Small Business Bank (60 KB)

02-Nov-2010 RBA and Federal Labor Govt Kill Christmas in 2010 (59 KB)

01-Nov-2010 Class Actions on the Cards for Telco Scam (60 KB)

October

28-Oct-2010 QLD Government “Bunny Boilers” on Easter Decision (60 KB)

16-Oct-2010 Parity Reached as Shoppers Find ‘Aladdin’s Cave’ Online (57 KB)

12-Oct-2010 Atheist Prime Minister Should Not Dictate Mary MacKillop Merchandise Laws (60 KB)

09-Oct-2010 Smiling Shoppers on High Aussie Dollar (57 KB)

07-Oct-2010 ‘All Over the Shop’ as ALP National President Admits Flexibility Key to IR Answers (64 KB)

06-Oct-2010 Banks Put On 'Name and Shame' Notice by Retail Sector (61 KB)

05-Oct-2010 Banks Should Heed RBA Decision and Cool Their Heels (59 KB)

05-Oct-2010 RBA Must Hold on Rates (59 KB)

04-Oct-2010 Australia needs a Small Business Bank as rate rises set to further hurt ‘economic backbone’ (60 KB)

September

27-Sep-2010 Retailers Call for Competition Policy to be on New Parliament’s Agenda (60 KB)

24-Sep-2010 NSW Opposition Small Business Action Plan is a ‘Shining Light’ (60 KB)

23-Sep-2010 Queensland Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle Must Include a Small Business Portfolio (58 KB)

22-Sep-2010 Lord Mayor Clover Moore’s Bureaucratic Speak No Substitute for Consultation (65 KB)

21-Sep-2010 Concerns with Sydney Bikeways Construction to Be Canvassed in Poll (60 KB)

20-Sep-2010 Clover Moore’s Bicycle Utopia Becomes a Death Trap for Retailers and Cyclists (60 KB)

20-Sep-2010 New South Wales Government risks massive job and business losses over the state’s spiralling electri (64 KB)

15-Sep-2010 Premier Keneally and Lord Mayor Off with the Pixies on CBD Enviro Spin Scheme (60 KB)

14-Sep-2010 Bligh Government ‘the Grinch that stole Christmas’ with Penalty Rates Double Up (59 KB)

11-Sep-2010 Retailers to ‘Start Afresh’ with New Small Business Minister (57 KB)

09-Sep-2010 Scott Driscoll to Meet with Southern Downs Mayor and Small Business Operators in Warwick Today (61 KB)

07-Sep-2010 RBA Should Drop Rates Today To Help Alleviate Uncertainty (60 KB)

03-Sep-2010 Driscoll backs Katter's call to reign in the Supermarket Giants (66 KB)

August

31-Aug-2010 Latest ABS Retail Figures Up As Retailers Contend with Continued Uncertainty (64 KB)

31-Aug-2010 Walk A Mile With Small Business, Premier (59 KB)

23-Aug-2010 Small Business Calls for Real Change in Government (62 KB)

16-Aug-2010 Phone Poll Reveals New Cost of Living Taxes Most Worrying Retailers and Small Business (63 KB)

13-Aug-2010 Jobs Figures Prove Government is Killing the Mining Boom (57 KB)

12-Aug-2010 Stimulus Debate - The True Economic Heroes are Small Business (61 KB)

10-Aug-2010 Retailers Demand Answers on Secret Gillard ETS Scheme (63 KB)

05-Aug-2010 SMALL BUSINESS 2010 MID-ELECTION REPORT CARD (92 KB)

04-Aug-2010 Mystery Ministers Leaves More Uncertainty for Business (60 KB)

04-Aug-2010 Retail Battlelines Drawn On Paid Parental Leave (65 KB)

03-Aug-2010 ABS Retail Sales Trends ‘Patchy’ at Best (59 KB)

03-Aug-2010 Interest Rates Decision ‘a Stay of Execution’ (58 KB)

July

30-Jul-2010 Deloitte Report Confirms Mining Tax will Drive Away Investment (62 KB)

28-Jul-2010 Inflation Data Media Alert (61 KB)

28-Jul-2010 Struggling Retailers Welcome Tony Abbott’s Announcement to Cut Company Tax to 28.5% (59 KB)

28-Jul-2010 Underlying Inflation Rate up to 2.7% and up 0.5% for Quarter as Government Spending Debacle Proves W (61 KB)

26-Jul-2010 United Retail Federation to voice general member concerns over mining tax (59 KB)

23-Jul-2010 Gillard Must Come Clean on Her Greens Alliance Plan to Lift Company Tax Rate (59 KB)

21-Jul-2010 Gillard Moving Forward to Greens Extreme Tax Deal (60 KB)

21-Jul-2010 GILLARD-GREENS DEAL ON ETS MK II TO COST CONSUMERS (60 KB)

20-Jul-2010 Labor Lies on IR – Time to Fess Up (83 KB)

17-Jul-2010 Prime Minister Forgets to “move forward” with Small Business in her election speech (62 KB)

16-Jul-2010 Federal Election - Game On for Small Business Demands (62 KB)

11-Jul-2010 Working Australians Worse Off Under Gillard (61 KB)

09-Jul-2010 Craig Emerson Goes “Emo” today (again) live on TV News (68 KB)

09-Jul-2010 Minimum Work Hours Decision Destroys Job Options for Young People and Fails Working Mums (64 KB)

08-Jul-2010 Gillard’s Tax Office Gestapo Hangs Small Business out to Dry (63 KB)

06-Jul-2010 RBA Decision Proves Government Cash Splash Failure (62 KB)

02-Jul-2010 Gillard Backflips on Small Business and Halves Tax Cut (65 KB)

02-Jul-2010 Mutant Super Tax by Any Other Name Is Still a Super Increase on Cost of Living (65 KB)

01-Jul-2010 July 1st Doomsday Signals Breaking of Australia’s Economic Backbone (69 KB)

June

30-Jun-2010 Small Business the Big Losers in Gillard’s AWU Victory Lap (66 KB)

29-Jun-2010 Gillard Government Guessing Game is a Fatal Uncertainty for Small Business (88 KB)

25-Jun-2010 Small Business concerned as Labor Union Mafia marches into Canberra to install ‘Smiling Assassin’ Gi (68 KB)

18-Jun-2010 Woolworths Fails to Extend Its Trading Hours Stranglehold (65 KB)

10-Jun-2010 Latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute Survey Proves Super Tax Will Affect Small Business (65 KB)

03-Jun-2010 Open War Declared on Small Business by Rudd Government and Labor Unions with Wage Increase Insanity (66 KB)

01-Jun-2010 Fair Work Ombudsman Unable to Explain Confusing and Shambolic IR Laws in Senate Estimates (67 KB)

01-Jun-2010 Interest Rates Unchanged As Reckless Government Spending Continues to Punish Small Business and Reta (75 KB)

01-Jun-2010 RBA Must Drop Interest Rates (74 KB)

May

31-May-2010 Prime Minister Has Misled the Parliament and Lied to the Australian People (65 KB)

31-May-2010 Rudd Government IR Back Down as Ombudsman Shows No Faith in IR Laws (63 KB)

29-May-2010 Higher Food Prices to Come with Queensland Electricity Cost Blow Outs (31 KB)

26-May-2010 Retailers Applaud Proposed Government-Owned Small Business Bank (65 KB)

25-May-2010 Small Business Says “Super Tax” will Push up Food Prices and Wipe out Communities (104 KB)

14-May-2010 Small Business Welcomes Tony Abbott’s Budget Reply Measures (83 KB)

13-May-2010 Food and Grocery Prices Set to Skyrocket Under New Super Tax (88 KB)

12-May-2010 Rudd Government’s Big Tax Budget is no hope for Small Business (92 KB)

11-May-2010 2010 Budget Must Reduce Debt (88 KB)

11-May-2010 Ghost Town Tax Is No Road to Surplus (31 KB)

07-May-2010 RBA Monetary Policy Statement Confirms Treasurer's Ignorance (793 KB)

06-May-2010 Small Business Turns Their Back on Rudd Government as Weak ABS Retail Figures Released (75 KB)

06-May-2010 Workers Worse Off Under Rudd Government's IR Laws (71 KB)

05-May-2010 Rudd Super Tax Kills Mining Boom, Destroys Small Business and Costs Thousands of Jobs (75 KB)

04-May-2010 RBA Has Proven It’s a Moonbeam from the Larger Lunacy (72 KB)

04-May-2010 RBA Must Sit On Rates or Risk Killing Business Confidence (72 KB)

02-May-2010 Rudd's Henry Tax Reform is more smoke and mirrors than Small Business saviour (74 KB)

April

25-Apr-2010 ACCC to commence public review on competition (74 KB)

22-Apr-2010 Redcliffe MP does not know if she is Arthur or Martha on Population Growth at Own Population Summit (73 KB)

21-Apr-2010 Dole Reduction Would Encourage Workplace Participation in Able Bodied Young People (72 KB)

21-Apr-2010 Scott Driscoll elected as National President of the United Retail Federation (73 KB)

19-Apr-2010 Industry Backs Coalition Support for “Forgotten People” (63 KB)

19-Apr-2010 Dividing Queensland Time Zones Divides Queenslanders (65 KB)

13-Apr-2010 Retailers and Small Business Outraged by Big End of Town ‘Welfare’ (205 KB)

06-Apr-2010 Reserve Bank Must Sit on Rates (199 KB)

06-Apr-2010 Reserve Bank of Australia off with the Pixies Again (199 KB)

01-Apr-2010 Retailers Call for Federal Funding on CCTV Cameras (205 KB)

March

31-Mar-2010 Latest ABS Retail Figures Down 1.4% (205 KB)

09-Mar-2010 Parental Leave is an Important Investment (71 KB)

05-Mar-2010 Toowoomba Falls to Southern Bully Boy Retail Chains (75 KB)

04-Mar-2010 A Big New Business Tax (73 KB)

03-Mar-2010 ACTU Elitist Crap Places More Pressure on Interest Rates and Jobs (72 KB)

02-Mar-2010 ABS Retail for January - 1.2% Rise (66 KB)

02-Mar-2010 RBA Decision Comment (66 KB)

01-Mar-2010 Kmart Vs ANZACs (69 KB)

01-Mar-2010 Prime Minister, You’re Dreaming! (76 KB)

February

26-Feb-2010 Mr Rudd - Scrap the ETS Tax or issue a pre-emptive apology for the Billions of dollars in waste (66 KB)

25-Feb-2010 Anti-competitive Woolworths Proposal Will Destroy Local Businesses and Cost Jobs (72 KB)

24-Feb-2010 Latest Garrett Stuff Up Hits Retailers Too (66 KB)

18-Feb-2010 Junior Shift Minimums Costing Kids Jobs, Hope & Work Ethic (70 KB)

17-Feb-2010 ACTU Argument Costs Australian Jobs (68 KB)

15-Feb-2010 Rudd IR Laws Will Deliver Massive Under-Employment (69 KB)

12-Feb-2010 4 Tragic Deaths Follow Rudd Government Mishandling of Enviro Politics & Insulation PR Schemes..... (68 KB)

09-Feb-2010 Fair Work Australia - Missing in Action! (67 KB)

02-Feb-2010 Abbott’s Climate Change Policy Backed by Small Business (64 KB)

02-Feb-2010 ETS Threat Destroys Business Confidence and Recovery (65 KB)

02-Feb-2010 RBA Rates Decision Right (64 KB)

January

29-Jan-2010 Scott Driscoll Meets with Lord Christopher Monckton (68 KB)

28-Jan-2010 Meet More Business and Industry Leaders Premier Bligh, Not Less (68 KB)

28-Jan-2010 New “Mutant ETS” Worries Business (67 KB)

27-Jan-2010 Driscoll: Pollie Shopping Centre Ban is Rubbish (66 KB)

27-Jan-2010 Hinchliffe Should Look At More Moreton Bay Regional Council Developments While He’s At It (68 KB)

27-Jan-2010 Queensland Economic Lag Depends on Population Growth Now (69 KB)

25-Jan-2010 Pre Oz Day "Sickie" Un-Australian (64 KB)

18-Jan-2010 Driscoll - Retailers Could Cut Unemployment in Half Without Pokies Scurge (67 KB)

14-Jan-2010 Minister Caught Out in IR Report Cover Up (74 KB)