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Businesses are the glue that hold a community together- which is why it is essential they are back trading as soon as possible after a natural disaster.
In Rochester, BizRebuild provided around 70 small businesses with $2,000 dollar vouchers to spend on essential equipment.
"We need to make it easier for business big and small to hire more people and scale up - Same Job, Same Pay is not the answer, especially with our growth at such record lows", says @JAWestacott #StrongAustralia
"On housing, we need to look at unlocking build to rent, the recent budget provided some support on that – how do we develop a model to sustain the housing our community needs", says @C4ADL chief executive, Sam Dighton
"There’s a national point about productivity – but from a business and state perspective, if we have better co-ordination – we can unlock productivity, that’s the way government and business work together globally", says @bhp CEO Mike Henry.
"I think we should be ambitious around population growth. We know the pipeline of jobs that are coming our way - we need to invest in infrastructure now" - says South Australian Premier @PMalinauskasMP
"We are committed to decarbonising our own operations while still offering the best possible product to our market," says Jason Economidis, Chief Operating Officer from @South_32 #strongaustralia
"We have done very little on housing innovation, such as prefabrication, build to rent, releasing enough land and 30 year infrastructure plans," says @JAWestacott
"Housing shortages and rental stress create a critical economic bottleneck for the region - we need to do better,' says Adam Zarth, Executive Director of @bis_illawarra
"The Hunter, the Illawarra and Western Sydney could be the arc of the frontier - with coordination and organisation they can unleash the power of the economy", says @JAWestacott #strongaustralia
"Ramsay is at the forefront of our healthcare - we are investing $200m in the region," says @ramsayhealth Steven Rajcany, CEO of Wollongong and Figtree Private Hospitals #strongaustralia
"We expect to be a steelmaker here in the Illawarra for the next 100 years", says @BlueScopeAus Mark Vassella #strongaustralia
Kicking off our Strong Australia Illawarra event in Wollongong with @bis_illawarra #strongaustralia
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Great to catch up with Melinda James on #ABCIllawarra about unleashing the huge potential of our regions.
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“The federal budget needs to have a vision and the ingredients for growth. The first is investment. Big money needs to come here to drive new clean energy projects,” @JAWestacott
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With all these huge assets, the missing ingredient is coordination. “Newcastle has an enormous belief that it can again reinvent itself. It just needs coordination.” says @JAWestacott
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@HunterBiz’s Bob Hawes says skills will be critical over the next 4 years. “A lot of the new energy opportunities will use transferable skills from existing industries.”
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@PortofNewcastle are already working to adapt to change. CEO Craig Carmody says “We have been diversifying over the last 5 years. We need to create new opportunities and nee business while the sun is shining and we can afford to do it.”
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@JAWestacott agrees “Newcastle is one of the great examples of what the country could be. We see huge opportunities.”
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@WSP_Australia’s Guy Templeton tells guests that since 2020, WSP has increased its staff in the hunter region by 50%. “This is a growth area in our business”