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Governments that want to get people ‘off welfare and into work’ should consider offering them the same employment support granted to other unemployed people.
They employ thousands and are highly commercial, and increasingly their staff are turning to unions.
Before we consider scrapping dividend imputation it’s essential we consider the alternatives.
The reasons this prominent economist doesn’t support removing exemptions on GST are not what you’d think.
The proposed changes to Australia’s competition regime make sense, and deserve bipartisan support.
Joe Hockey thought repeating a few slogans was enough; but selling the economy is harder than it looks.
It’s a good thing that Australia’s large and growing super sector will attract greater policy focus in coming years.
Last week, Westpac hoisted its lending rate by 20 basis points in a bid to recover the costs of recent capital raisings. There is speculation other banks will follow. Australia’s non-bank lenders could…
Whatever happens to Uber’s legal status in Australia, it’s likely consumers will be the eventual winners.
It’s not just the gender pay gap that stands to benefit from ending salary secrecy.
Bringing firms and talent together can have a significant payoff beyond the basic submarine build.
A push to make contracts easier for consumers never went anywhere, so it’s time the issue was revisited.
When children under 15 end up homeless it’s likely to have a significant economic and social cost throughout their life.
We have never had a sparkling startup tech sector in Australia, but that doesn’t mean we should try and emulate Silicon Valley.
Labor’s proposals designed to “safeguard” Australian workers under the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) are a step in the right direction but may be insufficient.
The public debate has shifted from a discussion about invading foreign investors to a discussion about foreign rule breakers.
RBA has no comparative advantage or good reason to regulate the Payments System. Australia already has a specialist agency to regulate industry – the ACCC.
Despite an emerging market in alternative financial services for people on low incomes, little is really known how these Australians manage their money.
Much more can be done to protect Australia’s property market from international criminals seeking to wash their proceeds.
The widely accepted concept of economic prosperity - GDP - increasingly fails to measure human well-being.
The Australian government has powers it could use to patch the problems around temporary labour provisions in the China-Australia trade agreement.
Australia’s economic complexity is declining and it’s not a good thing.
More robust competition between banks would benefit consumers, but there’s little policy focus on the issue.
For business ethics to be effective they must be pushed onto corporations against their will. Business ethics is democratic, not corporate.