Barack Obama has been noted to embody the approach of stoicism.
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The ancient philosophy of stoicism can build the qualities needed in our new world of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Research shows that employers tend to win cases where pregnant women claim unfair dismissal.
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Research shows pregnant women are still being discriminated against in unfair dismissal cases, when employers say they are redundant.
Two views of the Australian economy.
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Scott Morrison and Chris Bowen kept to their lines, but both ignored Australia’s most compelling economic issue.
Competition among aged care providers may not necessarily be the answer to better aged care.
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Increasing competition among aged care suppliers may not mean better services, due to market failures.
Manufacturing makes for good photo ops, but spending by Australian companies is no cause for celebration.
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Worse than expected business investment in both manufacturing and mining provides another nod towards secular stagnation.
The Australian dairy industry could consider a regulation model like that in Canada.
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Government intervention in the crisis facing Australian dairy has opened the gates for suggestions of other types of regulation.
Research suggesting middle aged women will be worse off under super changes overreaches.
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NATSEM’s analysis of the Government’s super tax could easily mislead.
Higher earning women aged in their 50s are penalised by prospective super changes.
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Modelling the proposed superannuation policies on gender has revealed unintended consequences.
Crane numbers, in this case in Darlington, Sydney, are an indication of the number of new units coming onto the market.
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We are hearing dire warnings from property interests fighting against changes to negative gearing. But what if Labor’s proposed changes actually support demand for the flood of new properties?
Fairfax’s print newspapers take different approaches to locking up content.
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The AFR has one of the hardest paywalls in the business, but the evidence shows this strategy could prove difficult to maintain.
Women typically use joint bank accounts to help pay for their children’s expenses, but they can also be used to control.
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To formulate better policy on family violence, we need to understand economic abuse.
Former Murray Goulburn CEO Gary Helou, stepped down from the cooperative as the farmgate milk price plunged.
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The break up of trust between dairy farmers and Murray Goulburn can be tracked back to the degregulation of the dairy industry.
Westpac is one of the banks where ASIC alleges traders rigged the bank bill swap rate.
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Business Briefing: the bank bill swap rate
As more details are revealed in the bank bill swap rate rigging case we explain what the rate does, how it can be manipulated and what the government should be doing about it.
Deals between metro and regional television networks are paving the way for future mergers if the media reach rules are changed.
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A new affiliation between Network Ten and WIN may have been forced, but it opens the way for possible future mergers.
Women navigate a financial world that is awash in credit.
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The global push for financial inclusion could end up with unintended consequences.
Women have borne the brunt of global inequality.
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The corporate world must embrace human rights as a fundamental business priority.
The virtual reality service incorporates both vision and touch.
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A new shopping experience from two retailing giants shows companies are embracing sensory marketing.
Dairy giants Murray Goulburn and Fonterra competed in a race to the bottom.
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Two of the largest dairy cooperatives have been playing with farmers by pursuing a high price for milk when both should have taken into account fluctuations in the global dairy markets.
The Federal Budget is put together by the Department of Finance and Treasury, unlike PEFO.
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The Pre-election Fiscal Outlook shows two things, the ridiculousness of 10 year forecasts and that we need a tougher Parliamentary Budget Office.
Your at a glance guide to all the figures in the Pre-election Financial and Economic Outlook statement for the 2016 election.
Major economic indicators have not changed since the federal budget.
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Treasury is standing by the assumptions made in the federal budget.
Exploitation of 7-Eleven workers has put pressure on both parties in the election to amend laws to prevent this from happening in the future.
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Both the Coalition and Labor are aiming to combat worker exploitation with new policies and while this may be good news for workers, there are still some gaps.
Backpackers have always been treated as non-residents for tax purposes.
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Backpackers always were treated as non-residents for tax purposes, that’s why changes aren’t necessary.
Fairness is in the eye of the beholder when it comes to bracket creep.
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Short-term, the bracket creep measures help high income earners. But longer-term it evens out.
The ACT government is the first jurisdiction in Australia to fully approve operations of the ride-sharing service Uber.
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A case of an uber driver from Perth suing the company because his contract was terminated may show how protected drivers are under law.