Start Your Business Ahead Of Spring-Cleaning
This Sunday marks the start of the spring, and spring is a symbol of new beginnings. People want a fresh start with the help of spring-cleaning. And it can also be a new beginning for starting a ...
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a 3-point plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050
ShutterstockEvery January Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest funds manager, BlackRock, sends a letter to the chief executives of major public companies.This year’s letter fo...
Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
Requiring firms to only sell financial products we can use is good, but not enough
ShutterstockThe government’s financial system inquiry, on which I sat, reported five years ago.It recommended that the creators of financial products be subject to a design and distribution...
Kevin Davis, Professor of Finance, University of Melbourne
Natural disasters increase inequality. Recovery funding may make things worse
ShutterstockMy team and I have analysed the incomes of people affected by some of Australia’s worst bushfires, floods and cyclones in the past two decades. Our results are disheartening. We...
Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Professor of Economics, Head of the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Energy, the Environment and Natural Disasters, Deakin University
Diversity quotas will only lead to token appointments, doing more harm than good
ShutterstockGlobal investment company Goldman Sachs recently announced it would only take startups public if they had at least one diverse board member.In New Zealand, a new KiwiSaver fund, CareS...
Akshaya Kamalnath, Lecturer (Corporate law), Auckland University of Technology
cashless welfare cards do more harm than good
ShutterstockThe Australian government touts compulsory income management as a way to stop welfare payments being spent on alcohol, drugs or gambling. The Howard government introduced the BasicsCa...
Greg Marston, Head of School, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
The jobs market is nowhere near as good as you've heard, and it's changing us
We are continually being told that more of us are employed than ever before. Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe points out (correctly) that a higher proportion of us are in jobs than at any other ...
Michael Keating, Visiting Fellow, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University
Australia's tourist numbers may take years to recover
Australia’s catastrophic bushfire season has done immense damage to Australia’s tourist industry. Then, just as heavy rain began to bring the situation under control, came the co…
How to Calculate Income of Your Online Business
As of 2014, Google generates 22% of its income from AdSense. Besides 11.1 million websites are using AdSense on their websites or blogs. Nowadays AdSense is a very quick way to monetize yo…
Labor is right to talk about well-being, but it depends on where you live
ShutterstockLabor’s treasury spokesman, Jim Chalmers, wants to follow New Zealand’s example and introduce a “wellbeing budget” alongside the traditional budget that s…
Criminal penalties for corporate wage theft are appealing, but won't fix the problem on their own
Australian supermarket giant Coles and discount chain Target this week joined an ignominious list of large corporations caught up in “wage theft” scandals. Coles confessed to un…
Holden's dead end shows government policy should have taken a different road
The only surprise about the termination of the Holden brand in Australia was that it caused such surprise. This was the final nail in an already empty coffin, given local assembly manufactur…
Empirics to power Port Adelaide’s data-driven insights
Empirics, a leader in data integration and analytics, has announced a new partnership with Port Adelaide to establish the AFL club as a leader in data-driven decision-making across all aspec…
McGrathNicol partners with ResponSight to launch tech-enabled forensic service co-funded by AustCyber
McGrathNicol today announced the launch of FDetect, a new technology-enabled forensic investigations and risk profiling service developed in collaboration with leading technology and analy…
RAIN Group Releases Results from Global Study on Sales Negotiation
713 buyers and sellers reveal what tactics work and what doesn’t in sales negotiations today; According to buyers 6 out of 10 sellers cave on price AUSTRALIA (February 19, 2020) — RAIN G…
Coronavirus is killing Australia's lobster export market
ShutterstockCurrents are strong around the Torres Strait Islands, lying between Australia’s northern-most tip and Papua New Guinea.When the tidal conditions are right and the waters re…
