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When the large resource houses seek to invest in capital-intensive and costly minerals projects, what goes through their mind? If the so-called resources boom is over, why are companies still investing…
Finally good news from the Eurozone! According to recent Eurostat estimates the combined economy of this troubled region grew by 0.3% in the second quarter of 2013 after shrinking for six subsequent quarters…
In the first of their debates, Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd described their policies to boost productivity. Abbott said: “restoring the workplace relations pendulum to the sensible centre, that increases…
There are two distinct narratives at the moment around Australia’s company tax rate and its potential reform. The first revolves around a call to lower the company tax rate, which has been at 30% since…
Recent reports would have you believe that Tasmania is a basket case and in desperate need of another bailout. The Fairfax-owned Launceston Examiner recently ran a story headlined “Tasmania’s economy is…
This week’s agreement by 1700 Adelaide Holden workers to a three-year wage freeze may have put the brakes on management’s threats to take operations offshore in the interim, but it does not guarantee their…
On a flying visit to Darwin yesterday, Prime Minister Rudd proposed a new initiative “Growing the North: A Plan for Northern Australia”. The Opposition, particularly local Country Liberal politicians…
Trustees of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) may have caught their breath this week when they read that the Australian Taxation Office had its eye on capital gains that were going tax-free once…
The result of the ballot at Holden this week had workers agreeing to a wages freeze and taking a cut in conditions to preserve their jobs and potentially the very presence of Holden in Australia. Given…
For those still believing that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) pose no threat to established universities, Georgia Tech has launched the first accredited fully online Masters of Computer Science based…
Recently a petition signed by 25,000 people was handed in to UK’s 10 Downing Street urging British bank Barclays to reconsider its decision to close the bank accounts of scores of money remitters. A remitter…
The story in last weekend’s Sydney’s Daily Telegraph was stark: “[Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd will warn people smugglers he stands ready to create an island from hell in Papua New Guinea housing 10,000…
That bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has sold his eponymous company to British bookmaking powerhouse William Hill is no surprise. Waterhouse’s recent very public bid for recognition and market share was widely…
It looks like the GST will feature prominently in yet another election. The government is running a scare campaign on whether the Coalition will raise the GST after the election. In the meantime Tony Abbott…
Debate rages on between political adversaries and policy commentators following Tony Abbott’s commitment to cut the company tax rate in Australia by 1.5% from 1 July, 2015. What are the facts behind the…
It was not your normal book launch. When Pamela Williams’ book Killing Fairfax: Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge was launched in Sydney, James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch turned up to celebrate…
The announcement of News Corporation Australia chief executive Kim Williams’ resignation has been greeted with surprise. Williams spent 20 months in the job after heading up subscription network Foxtel…
The first week of what is shaping up to be a great election campaign ended as it began – with the media at the forefront of the agenda. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia has been firmly in focus all…
As Australian housing prices have boomed over the last decade and a half, there has been much discussion over whether a bubble exists in the residential property market. More recently, the concern is the…
Although Fonterra has tracked down the contaminated whey protein used in some varieties of infant milk formula, and batches of affected products exported to countries such as China have been pulled off…
When Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan as Chair of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve in early 2006, macroeconomists were busy trying to understand the “Great Moderation…
With an increasingly complex assortment of green tape and initiatives such as emissions trading schemes, environmental issues are no longer solely associated simply with a corporate conscience; they are…
Positive sex discrimination, if it occurs at all, tends to be implemented through recruitment quotas to senior positions or boards. Rarely does it take the form of higher remuneration. Yet, financial services…
Perhaps the proverbial tipping point in US print journalism has been reached. With the US$250m acquisition this week of The Washington Post by Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, the US newspaper…