Australia’s farming industry will need to take full account of its obligations to its workers, its customers, society and the environment if it is to prosper in the years to 2030.
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The reality is that companies are at risk without a social licence to operate, so why shy away from the term?
The European Union has enacted a systematic plan to give people more control over their personal data online. But despite these efforts, privacy agreements remain largely unreadable.
Supertaxes on very high earners needn’t be a problem.
There are limits on how much governments can spend without earning, although increasingly politicians are behaving as if there are not.
Trade wars are generally bad. But far worse for Australia is that the US and China make peace through a deal to establish a bilateral world order.
Subsidies for private health insurance premiums cost the government over A$6 billion a year. Is it time to scrap the rebate and redirect these funds elsewhere in the health system?
Suddenly, ASIC is about to have real power. It’ll be easier to get prosecutions and they will hurt, even if the law remains less than completely clear.
Businesses and workers are at the mercy of mega-corporations.
Australia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act is at least a step in the right direction.
Last time Australia got lucky. We are unlikley to get lucky again.
Australia’s first large-scale study on the experiences of people in financial hardship contradict the idea most debt problems are due to poor choices.
It’s been 27 years since our last recession. Conditions are ripe for a populist revolt when the next one arrives.
A maximum work week of 38 hours makes scientific sense. Working longer hours is bad for mental and physical health.
Dairy farmers’ incomes are dependent on so much more than the retail price of fresh milk.
Can tourism ever be sustainable? Only if operators and consumers start looking beyond the idyllic postcard images and take undesirable consequences of tourism into account.
In trying to be values-free (like physics & chemistry), business schools have succeeded in justifying amoral behaviour. No more! We’ve seen the results in the Banking Royal Commission.
The push against brokers might be right in theory, wrong in practice.
Dash Buttons have been ruled illegal under Germany’s consumer rights law. They might also contravene Australian consumer law.
Labor’s proposed amendments to the Coalition’s Protecting Your Super Bill would have cost young Australians $400 million a year.
Most pricing structures nudge us to spend more. But there’s a particularly cunning type of pricing that can get us to swap our preference from a cheaper to a more expensive option.
Do regulators act in the public interest, or in the interest of those they are meant to regulate?
Easy credit services like Zip trade on the individual’s belief that their income rise in the future.
There are things we can do, but the Economic Society’s poll finds that not all of them are part of the traditional economists’ toolkit.
More than a third (35.4%) of respondents surveyed by the Australian Leadership Index believe banking and financial institutions show “no leadership for the greater good”.