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The proposal for this Five-Year Plan highlights the ideas of innovation, green development, opening up and coordination.

This article discusses the importance of embracing failure, mistakes and learning to experiment to achieve innovation.

Tony Abbott has promised to be an 'infrastructure PM', with a plan to build more infrastructure to boost productivity,.

Peter Bobbin of Rockwell Oliver predicts that there will be a trend of law firms expanding into the accounting sector.

Comment is sought on a major part of the Commonwealth Government's strategy to tap the potential of Northern Australia.

There is a feeling that the market is being supported by factory incentives and bonuses, not demand by customers.

Are superannuation contributions made on behalf of a director by the trustee of a family discretionary trust deductible?

The Miles Review of the CRCs has been released and all 18 of the recommendations have been accepted by the Government.

Australia's thriving automotive sector offers vast opportunities, but timely and thorough business planning is essential.

In early May, we published an article about the Federal Court of Australia's commitment to conduct hearings by audio visual technology wherever possible during the coronavirus disruption.

This article contains a brief discussion of the key changes to the Franchising Code of Conduct after 1 July 2010.

In late January, the Treasury released an options paper (www.mcmahonclarke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/DM315546.pdf) as part of the future of financial advice reforms requesting feedback and comments for possible options for a new regime for the distinction between wholesale and retails clients.

On 12 April 2011 the Australian Government released its Trade Policy Statement, setting out the Government’s agenda for trade policy in the future. Whilst a number of the announcements are positive and welcomed, the Government’s rejection of investor-state dispute resolution procedures in trade agreements may cause problems for Australian and foreign investors alike.

A Bill has been introduced into federal parliament which if passed, will mean reduced compliance costs for New Zealand issuers in making offers of securities and interests in managed investment schemes to Australian investors and vice versa.

How franchisors can deal with threatened or actual insolvency by franchisees.

Getting the technology right is one thing, but legal traps can still snare the unwary.

While the use of cash settled equity swaps is an established part of the Australian securities market, their use in recent high profile takeovers in Australia has attracted much attention. In particular, this attention has focused on the use of swaps by bidders or potential bidders in target companies without disclosure.