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Richard Di Natale, leader of The Greens, told the Q&A audience that India will no longer buying Australian coal but presenter Tony Jones said he thought that was wrong. We check the facts.
Earnings season highlights the disparity between our highest paid executives and those on minimum wages.
Moral dilemmas are common; whether we act with courage or compliance depends on a whole range of factors in any given situation.
Telstra is promising to “transform the experience” for AFL fans, but Foxtel has similar plans.
Intellectual property is critical to Australia’s success, but we don’t need another review to tell us where the problems are.
Pushback from business is the real issue standing in the way of a successful crackdown on multinational tax avoidance.
Monetary policy involves more than managing inflation, which is why it sometimes takes a committee to decide interest rates.
The federal government want to stop green groups from using “lawfare”. But proposed changes threaten to seriously curtail public interest litigation in Australia.
In other markets the Huffington Post doesn’t just rely on the usual suspects to write, and it’s this that will make or break it in Australia.
Huffington Post Australia launches this week - but has it left its run too late?
A flat rate bank deposit tax could be distorting, and not for the reasons the banks suggest.
Australia has borne the brunt of costs for MH370. But there are fairer ways to apportion costs for future searches.
The issue of how to measure capital gains in “real terms” - that is, over the years they arose, rather than over a financial year, is at the heart of capital gains reform.
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told the Q&A audience last week that a lot of cafes and restaurants are closing because of Sunday penalty rates. Is that supported by the evidence?
Commercial television broadcasters are no longer solely concerned about TV content being viewed on TV sets.
China’s actions around the yuan are less dramatic than they have been portrayed. But what’s behind the drop is the major worry for Australia.
Australians are used to casual work, but there’s not yet any evidence the gig economy is taking off.
The Productivity Commission’s proposed industrial relations reform goes after unions, but will generally affect the non-unionised workforce most.
Treasurer Joe Hockey is right when he says Australia’s taxation level is the second highest among OECD countries. But when it is compared to GDP, it’s a different story.
The US may not like it, but by devaluing the yuan the People’s Bank of China has done what longtime critics of China’s currency policy have long been clamouring for.
The tax treatment of Bitcoin has been holding back the industry in Australia, but gradually the rules are changing.
The issues keeping those on low incomes out of the housing market are only getting worse over time.
Investors may not like it but Australian banks have been given little choice by the prudential regulator other than to undertake capital raisings.
Do the unelected super-rich exercise an over-weening influence on public policy. The answer is yes, and no.