News
For enquiries, interviews, information or commentary contact Business Chamber Queensland Media and Communications Manager Emma Clarke at [email protected].
30 years of business data: Weak business confidence trend the longest in Pulse Survey history
Persistent trends in weak business confidence and poor business conditions are at the longest sustained period in the history of Queensland’s leading report on business and economic sentiment. Read more.
State Budget offers little confidence for Queensland business
Today’s State Budget does not deliver genuine, direct relief to the state’s business community and fails to lay the foundations for long-term business confidence. Read more.
Business Budget Wishlist | What Queensland businesses will be looking for in Tuesday’s State Budget
Genuine, direct commitments to relief from record high costs and compounding pressures are the highest priority for Queensland businesses ahead of tomorrow’s State Budget delivery. Read more.
State Budget: Critical need to relieve businesses from historically high pressures
The upcoming State Budget must deliver on an urgent need for a long-term strategy to improve the Queensland business operating environment. Read more.
Small Business Strategy is an important step to support small business but there’s more to be done
The state’s peak business body welcomes the State Government’s Small Business Strategy, which includes the Chamber’s recommendations to reduce pressure on small businesses, but there is still more to be done. Read more.
Critical budget for business
Queensland businesses must be front and centre of next month’s state budget to deal with the mounting pressure being experienced by the business community through escalating costs, weak productivity, heavy regulatory burden and poor forward economic confidence. Read more.
“Missed opportunity”: Federal Budget doesn’t pass the Queensland business test
Short term measures in Tuesday’s Federal Budget will not address low business productivity and weak confidence long-term, Queensland’s peak business body says. Read more.
Numbers don’t lie: Productivity on hold
More than half of businesses say their productivity has stagnated or decreased in the past five years and, while alarming, it’s not surprising. The current business environment is tough, and the consequence is that productivity in Queensland is on hold. Read more.
‘Time to get to business’: State’s peak business body calling for policy certainty in state-wide Olympics infrastructure planning and investment
Now is the time for Queensland leaders to commit to the full state-wide Olympic and Paralympic Games infrastructure build portfolio and get on with the job, Business Chamber Queensland says. Read more.
“Perfect storm” of challenging operating conditions and disaster weakening business profitability
Queensland businesses are facing relentlessly challenging operating conditions, fresh off the back of a weak performance quarter with little optimism for the next 12 months. Read more.