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Our Business Services

Chamber of Commerce & Industry WA

With over 130 years of experience representing WA businesses, we’re ready to help with the resources and advice you need to succeed.

Employee Relations Helpline

Employee Relations Helpline

Get timely, reliable and practical employee relations advice on employment laws, the awards system and other human resource matters. CCIWA Members get unlimited access.

Legal Services

Legal Services

Our team of experienced, client-focused business lawyers offer a full range of Commercial Law & Employment Law services for all your essential legal needs.

Accounting & Taxation Services

Optima Partners and CCIWA

Innovative and personalised accounting, taxation and business advisory services that focus on delivering the best results to help your business grow.

Workplace Health & Safety Services

Workplace Health & Safety Services

Unlock the potential of your business with our suite of staff training and development programs, crafted by workplace relations experts and tailored to your business needs.

Construction & Mining IR Services

Construction & Mining IR Services

We offer extensive, independent and practical industrial and labour relations support to the engineering, construction and mining industries.

Workplace Training & Development

Workplace Training & Development

Unlock the potential of your business with our suite of staff training and development programs, crafted by workplace relations experts and tailored to your business needs.

Apprenticeship Support Australia WA

Apprenticeship Support Australia WA

Our dedicated team specialises in assisting employers maximise the benefits of investing in apprenticeships and traineeships to build local skills for the diverse WA workforce. Our team of experts will provide all the advice, support and services you need — free of charge.

Work Integrated Learning – Internships

Work Integrated Learning - Internships

Tap into WA’s future workforce with our Work Integrated Learning – Internships program. This free service facilitates university student work experience placements for your business.

Industry Capability Network WA

Industry Capability Network WA

Connecting your business with mining, construction, infrastructure, defence and other major projects using the ICN Gateway.

International Trade Services

International Trade Services

Take your business global using our comprehensive suite of international trade services to streamline importing and exporting, reduce risks and identify international partners.

Policy & Advocacy

Making WA the best place to live and do business.

For more than 130 years we have worked closely with State and Federal governments, and other Industry bodies, to ensure our Members’ interests and the interests of the WA community are heard.

Read our public policy charter How we work

What we’re standing for

We have a track record of championing policy, based on the principles of free enterprise. By standing together, we amplify the voice of our stakeholders – businesses, families, consumers and the WA workforce – to make WA the best place to live and do business.

We capture and define our policy and advocacy under five pillars:
Keep costs low; Regulation that helps not hinders; Ensuring a Skilled Workforce; Supporting Emerging Industries; Positioning WA

Keep Costs Low
Keep Costs Low
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Regulation that helps not hinders
Regulation that helps not hinders
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Ensuring a Skilled Workforce
Ensuring a Skilled Workforce
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Supporting Emerging Industries
Supporting Emerging Industries
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Positioning WA
Positioning WA
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State Pre-Budget Submission
State Pre-Budget Submission
State Pre-Budget Submission
In the media
In the media
In the media
Economic Insight
Economic Insight
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Industrial Relations: How we can help
Industrial Relations: How we can help
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Telling the story of WA’s economy

We provide timely, accurate and insightful analysis of the WA economy. By leveraging conventional, alternative and real-time data sources, we comprehensively unpack key issues facing the global, national and state economies and form a robust view about WA’s economic future.

As well as providing regular insights and commentary on the economy through the media, we also publish four key economic reports:

CCIWA Business Confidence Survey

A quarterly survey that is the longest running and most comprehensive of its kind in WA. We publish our expert analysis of t he short- and longer-term economic outlook and businesses’ expectations about issues such as capital expenditure and skills availability.

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CCIWA Consumer Confidence Survey

A quarterly survey that provides insights into the attitudes and sentiments of WA consumers. The report contains analysis about short- and longer-term expectations of economic conditions and the major concerns for WA households in the year ahead.

View Consumer Confidence Report

Regional Pulse

A quarterly report that provides regional breakdowns of key results from the CCIWA Business Confidence Survey.

View Regional Pulse Report

Outlook

Outlook is CCIWA’s biannual analysis of the WA economy and contains forecasts on key economic indicators, including Gross State Product, household consumption and unemployment.

View Outlook Report

Our policy process

We develop & advocate for good public policy.

Our vision is for WA to be
the best place to live and
do business.

We decide which policy issues to tackle based on their alignment with this objective. We only take on policy issues that are of practical relevance to the WA community.

Here is how we do it.

Who we engage with

To make sure we’re developing policy positions that ensure WA is the best place to live and do business, we listen to and work with stakeholders across the community to understand their challenges.

We engage with businesses of all sizes and across all industries to hear their concerns and identify ways to address them. We work with regional chambers, indigenous bodies and many other WA and national industry associations.

We regularly meet with government agencies and decision-makers to understand their perspectives. And we talk to WA individuals and families to find out how different policies and working arrangements affect them.

How we engage

We engage with our stakeholders in a range of different ways to make sure we’re enabling them to share their diverse perspectives. We connect using digital tools, such as surveys and webinars, as well as face to face through meetings, roundtables and workshops.

How we develop our positions

We are committed to developing principled, robust and practical policy solutions that improve the wellbeing of the WA community.

We research broadly and consider different viewpoints. And we back our positions with rigorous analysis of the economic and policy landscape, leveraging conventional, alternative and real-time data sources.

How we advocate

Our positions on different policy issues are transparent and public. We communicate our positions in plain English. And we advocate using traditional, digital media, as well as by putting forward our views via submissions and at events and other public forums.

If we are not achieving our policy objectives, we reflect, learn and change our approach.

Policy Submissions and Letters

Tapping the talent pool of people with disabilities
04 February, 2024
Tapping the talent pool of people with disabilities
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2024-25 Federal Pre-Budget Submission
25 January, 2024
2024-25 Federal Pre-Budget Submission
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Modern Awards Review 2023-24
20 December, 2023
Modern Awards Review 2023-24
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2024-25 Permanent Migration Program
18 December, 2023
2024-25 Permanent Migration Program
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Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023
15 December, 2023
Workers Compensation and Injury Management Act 2023
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Venture Capital
11 December, 2023
Venture Capital
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