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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.
Australia and New Zealand have unique legislative regimes protecting consumers, which differ from almost every other affected country.
The Productivity Commission has just released a timely new working paper that sheds light on how Australia’s tax and transfer system functions to distribute income across the population both at a point…
The experience of Canada, which agreed to an ISDS clause in its North American Free Trade agreement, should give pause to Australia.
The digital economy is also an economy of people first, something governments of the future will need to adjust to.
With fewer options available to send much-needed money to their family overseas, migrant communities fear severe consequences.
Volkswagen’s command and control approach has not helped its global response to the emissions scandal, with Australian customers left waiting for more than two weeks.
New research shows Australia will be better off with the NBN than it would have been without it.
If the Trans-Pacific Partnership was really about economic growth, it would include China, rather than deliberately locking it out.
Country-by-country reporting is the big achievement of the OECD’s plan to help stop multinational tax avoidance.