Greg Combet wants to use his super power to free business from being hostage to short-term share-price and profit measures.
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Superannuation fund supremo Greg Combet has a radical idea: to promote the business concept of ‘long-term value’.
Previous NSW election promises were easily funded. Not so this time.
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Prices have been falling since September 2017. It means the budget will no longer repair itself.
Getting shadow equity might get us better paid.
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What if we were part-paid in something that was like shares in the firm we worked for, except better. It might give us better pay rises.
Funi and Wang Wang in December, 2011. The gian pandas’ stay at Adelaide Zoo depends on federal funding to pay China about A$1 million a year.
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When it comes to giant pandas, politics, economics and international diplomacy often eclipse conservation considerations.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Employment Michaelia Cash during debate over the 2017 Australian Building and Construction Commission Bill.
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Employment Minister Mathias Cormann has let the cat out of the bag. The government has been trying to supress wages.
Within weeks of adopting most of the banking royal commission’s recommendations, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has backed down on one of them.
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Josh Frydenberg wants to leave mortgage broker commissions unchanged for three years. It’s hard to see why.
Australia’s Senate inquiry was unable to report on the prevalence of dowry and dowry abuse in Australia. Data is sketchy and evidence anecdotal.
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Rather than focusing on specific cultural practices, we need to concentrate on all forms of economic abuse as coercive control.
Dentists don’t get to practice unless they are accredited. Economists can practice on anyone.
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There’s a move to have economists acredited, like dentists. But it doesn’t have much support yet.
It’ll be a while until what’s happened becomes clear. Enterprises and other governments can’t afford to wait.
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It’s not at all certain what’ll happen, so business is taking no chances.
Heading for failure: shifting the burden of social development programs to business enterprises may prove to be a huge mistake by India’s national government.
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India requires large enterprises to spend 2% of their profits on corporate social responsibility projects. It’s a bold idea, but looks doomed to fail.
The Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island. Each new luxury ecotourism development becomes a precedent to allow future incursions.
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Around Australia, and the world, national parks are under threat from the curious paradox of luxury ecotourism.
Game of Thrones is a world of deceit, betrayal, treason and uncertain truths.
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When vested interests are attacked they create myths and battle plans. It’s the surest sign you are on the right track.
Pink pussy hats are out at International Women’s Day events, but they are facing opposition.
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Progress on gender equity is harder to achieve, in part because of a belief on the part of some men that women have come too far too soon.
Women tend to get thrown into teaching rather than research, and tend to have their research overlooked.
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Fewer girls study economics today than 25 years ago, perhaps because they have become aware of the barriers to progress.
Things are changing quickly in lower management, but at the very top there remains a hard-to-attack barrier.
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The hard nuts to crack are getting women into chief executive positions and getting them paid as much.
In July 2018, public servants went on strike to demand fair wages.
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Last year, more than 70,000 workers walked off their jobs in New Zealand – the highest number of people on strike since the late 1980s. The reasons for the strike wave are political and economic.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after beating Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League on March 6, 2019.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s has revived one of sport’s most revered brands. Here are some reasons for his leadership success.
Both Australia’s trend and seasonally adjusted GDP per capita growth rates have dipped below zero.
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The treasurer says 2018 was a year of two halves, but there were signs of a downturn well before mid year.
What if investors could identify risks from companies’ approaches to gender early?
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Gender lens analysis identifies risks and opportunities early. It is catching on.
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While a lot of our focus is placed on getting women back to work, new research shows perhaps the answer to boosting our workforce is a little closer to home.
Lifters versus leaners is the language of the past. We are likely to see it less.
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Budgets will increasingly acknowledge that welfare is about us, rather than us versus them.
That’s not real diversity: the women picked to be on boards generally belong to the same social networks as the male directors.
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There’s a problem in thinking more women on boards is a great indicator of significant progress on diversity.
Simon Birmingham and Enggartiasto Lukita have signed an agreement that might never be ratified in that form.
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No commitments on environmental standards, but foreign corporations will shore up their rights to sue the Australian and Indonesian governments.
New Zealand is one of few countries without a capital gains tax and the proposal to introduce one prompted outrage.
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The heated debate about New Zealand’s proposed introduction of a capital gains tax overlooks the fact it would bring tax cuts for most New Zealanders.
Words are the most you can expect when boards regulate themselves.
The ASX was late to the corporate governance party and its fourth reheat remains as flawed as ever.