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Industry Festival focus on value to Coast economy

This month’s Central Coast Industry Festival will be a must see for all businesses that have a remote connection with our region’s manufacturing industries. Because manufacturers hide out in industrial areas well away from residential and shopping areas they fly...
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SME’s under attack with Labor

Few people in small and medium sized businesses understand what is about to descend upon them with Federal Labor’s new 500 page plus Industrial Relations Loophole Bill. Under this Bill employing subcontractors becomes close to illegal and, for the first...
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Local businesses to be proud of

This time of the year is the season for Awards, all the business and industry associations hold their annual awards recognising excellence and achievement. Some are popularity contests run by organisations for their own self-interest. Others are genuine in that...
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Tourism – A hobby or an industry

The history of tourism on the Central Coast goes back more than 80 years. To a time when Sydney’s blue-collar workers packed up their tents, hooked up their caravans and spent the summer school holidays across the whole of the...
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One more year of Council under Administration

The 2024 Local Government elections will be held next year on the 14th of September bringing to a close three years during which Central Coast Council has been under Administration. It goes without saying that the few short years in...
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Central Coast Investment Prospectus

This month we are proud to publish Sydney’s Central Coast – 2023-24 Central Coast Investment Prospectus. An initiative of CCBR, we have been proudly publishing this Prospectus each year for thirty years. It was the first regional investment prospectus published...
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Chamberlain Group’s confidence and manufacturing on the Coast

Our front cover story for this month is a report on one of the Central Coast’s oldest manufacturers, the Chamberlain Group, and their confidence in investing $28 million in a new facility at Somersby in conjunction with the Central Coast’s...
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Time for State Government to take control of planning at Central Coast Council

Time for State Government to take control of planning at Central Coast Council The amalgamation of Gosford and Wyong Councils in 2016 was heralded as an opportunity for the Central Coast to look to the future with confidence and prosperity....
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Former Gosford Council legacy putting Coast on the map.

It was a very small window, just three years, during the time of the McKinna/Anderson Council that would change Gosford. Prior to that Gosford Council, for over 40 years opposed almost every development proposal that came its way. Today, we...
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Council’s DA process stifling economy

We all accept that the 2016 forced merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils has been a disaster right from start. The first phase in the amalgamation of Central Coast Council saw the Administrator back off from anything contentious leaving it...
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