60 doctors to every 100,000 people
By Laura Anderson
Adelaide Advertiser, 3/05/2008, 45
Extract: ...Health Minister Nicola Roxon detailed the results of the Government's rural health workforce audit in a speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Melbourne…
Reporting on the event CEDA Forum - Health: The National Priorities - SOLD OUT (Wait list available), VIC 30/04/2008
Carbon dating business
Business Acumen Queensland, 1/05/2008, 2
Extract: …The CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) Queensland luncheon pointed out in no uncertain terms that carbon footprints are about to step up as an economic issue for business…
Reporting on the event The forthcoming Emissions Trading Scheme in Australia, QLD 14/04/2008
Vic crisis claim
By Duncan Hughes
Australian Financial Review, 29/04/2008, 6
Extract: ...In addressing the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Mr Wells is also expected to claim the state government has wasted state revenues and commonwealth assistance via a ‘combination of incompetence and irresponsibility…
Reporting on the event SOLD OUT - Victorian State Budget, VIC 7/05/2008
Vic faces budget splurge: Libs
Bendigo Advertiser, 29/04/2008, 13
Extract: ...Mr Wells will tell a Committee for Economic Development of Australia luncheon that while the government has benefited from a record level of tax revenue, it has failed to increase services in line with population growth, or keep a lid on debt…
Reporting on the event SOLD OUT - Victorian State Budget, VIC 7/05/2008
Rich Future Fund sees world of choices
By Matthew Dunckley
Australian Financial Review, 24/04/2008, 11
Extract: …The cashed-up Future Fund will seek to exploit its strong liquidity by targeting private equity, real estate and infrastructure investments, general manager Paul Costello said. Speaking in Melbourne, he said the fund had about $50 billion under management…
Reporting on the event The Future Fund - Progress in Building a Long Term Business, VIC 23/04/2008
Old issues to give birth to fresh thinking on economy
By Tim Colebatch
The Age, 8/04/2008, 8
Extract: ...The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) estimates that by 2003 our shortfall of infrastructure investment was already $25 billion, mostly in roads and rail…
Murray deal 'does not add up'
By Cara Jenkin
Adelaide Advertiser, 8/04/2008, 15
Extract: "Victoria is being paid to take 200 gigalitres out and put 100 back in," he said… …Professor Young made the claims while speaking at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia's Waterfor the Future forum at the Hyatt Regency yesterday…
Reporting on the event Water for the Future Forum - A SA Overview (SOLD OUT), SA 7/04/2008
Housing crunch tipped to worsen
Sunshine Coast Daily, 3/04/2008, 29
Extract: ...Stockland chief executive Matthew Quinn told a lunch in Sydney yesterday that while rents in real terms were lower than in 1988, affordability and associated costs were barriers. "The problem is that costs have gone up and investors can't get the money because of the credit crunch," Mr Quinn told a Committee for Economic Development in Australia function…
Reporting on the event 2008 Property Market Outlook, NSW 2/04/2008
True value may hurt mums, dads
By Matthew Cranston
Australian Financial Review, 3/04/2008, 71
Extract: ...At the Committee for Economic Development of Australia's annual property market outlook yesterday, Stockland managing director Matthew Quinn says there is likely to be an examination of property prices soon which will reduce the value of second-tier property…
Don't blame sub-prime crisis
By Anthony Klan
The Australian, 3/04/2008, 24
Extract: ...Stockland Properties Group managing director Matthew Quinn said recent failing companies such as Centro and MFS had used the US sub-prime crisis as a "scapegoat" to mask their own poor company models. "Some of our ompetitors have blown up and blamed subprime it's not sub-prime," Mr Quinn said at a Committee for Economic Development of Australia seminar yesterday…
Global flavour for innovation review
By Tim Colebatch
The Age, 2/04/2008, 3
Extract: ...Speaking to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Sydney, Senator Carr said Australia's innovation institutions and practices are "still tethered to the past"…
Reporting on the event National Innovation Forum: Towards a clever culture and streamlined innovation framework for a competitive Australia, NSW 1/04/2008
For sheer stupidity, it would be hard to hold a candle to Earth Hour
By Terry McCrann
Weekend Australian, 29/03/2008, 34
Extract: ...BT Financial's insightful and entertaining economist Chris Caton made the point at CEDA's Victorian Economic and Political Overview yesterday that a carbon tax and equally the carbon trading regime, which we have embraced as an alternative is the sort of tax that actually intends to change behaviour…
Reporting on the event Victorian Economic and Political Overview, VIC 28/03/2008
Wake-up call for all our politicians
By Greg Kelton
Herald Sun, 22/03/2008, 45
Extract: ...Committee for Economic Development of Australia members have identified the most significant issues facing the Government as water and the environment, workforce and labour skills, the economy, energy, health and cooperative federalism…
Corporate responsibility `a core element'
By Lucy Battersby
The Age, 20/03/2008, 2
Extract: ...CORPORATE social responsibility should be seen as a core element in the financial sustainability of every business... ...Ms Charles was addressing a conference on corporate responsibility and sustainability hosted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Melbourne yesterday.
Reporting on the event CEDA National Forum - Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, VIC 19/03/2008
Glass ceiling firmly in place: report
By Catherine Fox
Australian Financial Review, 18/03/2008, 7
Extract: ...Company policies to encourage women into management positions are not working, according to researcher Hannah Piterman, author of The Leadership Challenge: Women in management…
Reporting on the event SOLD OUT - The Leadership Challenge: Women in Management, NSW 17/03/2008