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Qld not for sale

Gladstone Observer, 30/04/2010, 7

Extract: THE $15 billion asset sell-off will be stopped by an LNP government with Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek yesterday vowing that under his leadership "Queensland is not for sale". In an address to Queensland business leaders at CEDA (Committee for Economic Development Australia) Mr Langbroek said a recent Access Economics Report showing the state's finances would surge by $11 billion over the next three years further underlined why Labor's fire sale of assets was not now, and was not ever, a necessity.

Reporting on the event A New Vision for Queensland: John-Paul Langbroek MP, QLD 29/04/2010

Costly vendors not needed, warns CBA

Australian Financial Review, 22/04/2010, 25

Extract: Addressing the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief information officer Michael Harte said that businesses no longer needed to bind themselves to "lock-in" standards imposed by IT suppliers. According to Mr Harte, "we are going to rely much less on packaged software and we are going to be able to buy services in a much more commoditised and contestable manner."

Reporting on the event CIO Series I - Michael Harte, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, NSW 21/04/2010

Ageing baby boomers mean healthcare sector is in its prime

Sydney Morning Herald, 17/04/2010, 18

Extract: The chief executive of the commercial property business for Stockland, John Schroder, said in a speech at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia during the week that as the baby boomers (who turn 65 next year) entered retirement, there would be an increase in demand for higherquality, more-innovative living solutions with greater access to essential community services.

Reporting on the event 2010 Property Market Outlook, NSW 15/04/2010

Your power bills will triple

Herald Sun (Melbourne), 15/04/2010, 57

Extract: The CEO of Origin Energy, Grant King, explicitly predicted the price rises in an important speech to CEDA - the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia - in Sydney on Tuesday.

King also noted that our "traditional fuels" for electricity generation, otherwise known as coal, would get more expensive as they were "repriced to much more internationally consistent pricing".

Reporting on the event CEO Vision Series Part I: Grant King, Origin Energy, NSW 13/04/2010

No easy fix with reform

Australian Financial Review, 14/04/2010, 61

Extract: Policy director at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia Michael Porter doubts whether Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can live up to his "evidence-based policy" claims, such as with the $43 billion national broadband network. Mr Porter has worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and  nternational Monetary Fund. He says that a cabinet-based policy process is needed that draws clearly on the expertise of the bureaucracy, as used by the Hawke government. Mr Porter says major contributions from Treasury and the states, independent think tanks and consultancies are increasingly ignored.