• Labor MP lambasts Apple and IT suppliers

  A Labor MP has suggested it is time for Australia's competition watchdog to look into why Silicon Valley companies, including Apple, are fleecing families and young people more than US customers for their products.

  By AAP | 18 August, 2011 11:23

  Tags: Adobe, Apple, business, Ed Husic, government, Lenovo, Microsoft, Productivity Commission, silicon valley

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  Inaction of $1k GST-free threshold will lead to business failure: National Retail Association

  Retailers say the Productivity Commission has outlined a strong case for reducing the $1000 GST-free threshold on online overseas purchases but stuck it in the too-hard basket.

  By AAP | 05 August, 2011 11:30

  Tags: business, e-business, goods and services tax (GST), online sales, online shopping, Productivity Commission

• Retailers not sold on taking business online: Productivity Commission

  Australia’s retail sector must overcome myriad of challenges before its is able to address the growing loss of sales to overseas online outlets, according to the Productivity Commission’s Economic Structure and Performance of the Australian Retail Industry draft report.

  By Tim Lohman | 05 August, 2011 10:53

  Tags: business, online retailers, Productivity Commission

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  You can't rely on a cost-benefit analysis: Productivity Commission

  The independent research and policy advisory body charged with conducting the cost-benefit analysis of the Gillard Government’s $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) has conceded the process is merely a “useful tool” and cannot be solely relied upon.

  By Chloe Herrick | 17 June, 2011 15:31

  Tags: Productivity Commission, National Broadband Network (NBN), NBN, cost-benefit analysis, government

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