Energy prices have doubled in ten years, but as a proportion of income, most of us are paying no more.
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Australia’s unemployment rate may have to fall much more before we see any wages growth.
Reviews are essentially short stories. The best use the same elements that make a novel gripping.
Cricket Australia’s cultural problems are a lesson for corporate Australia, particularly for those companies whose own cultural problems have been exposed by the banking royal commission.
Most renters are happy with their landlords and happy with the quality of their accommodation, but they would like better security of tenure and cheaper rent.
Labor wants to require Australia’s big companies to report the ratio of their chief executive’s pay to their workers’ pay. While it might embarrass some, there’s no evidence it would make them pay their workers more.
The crucial question is not whether gig workers are employees or independent contractors, but what rights they ought to have as contractors.
Overseas research says putting the clock forward hurts the financial markets. But not in Australia, according to a real-world study along the Queensland-NSW border.
We have known for more than a decade that the pilot training pipeline is close to rupturing. Now the crunch has come there are some obvious things to do.
Clare O'Neil on Labor’s listening tour for banking victims
Shadow minister for financial services Clare O'Neil says the ALP exercise will give a voice to people in areas the Royal Commission hasn't had time to visit.
Beneath conflicting trends in corruption surveys is a clear truth: addressing inequality makes good economic sense.
It’s not just low pay and interrupted work that makes women poor in retirement.
Its extremely common, everywhere, for large numbers of people to pay no net tax. It tells us nothing about the size of the welfare state or about whether it bribes people to keep tax high.
Getting better behaved banks isn’t difficult. Here are three places to start.
In his three volume 1,000 page interim report Commissioner Hayne has built an irrefutable case for root and branch reform.
How can our major institutions, particularly from the banking and finance sector retain their corporate legitimacy? What role should their boards be playing?
Royal Commissioner Kenneth Hayne is arguing for less and clearer law, and tougher corporate cops.
The banks get most of the blame in Commissioner Hayne’s explosive report, but there’s some for us as well.
The banking royal commission’s most enduring legacy might be the cancer of too much caution throughout the financial services sector.
New figures show we are spending less on health than we used to but it mightn’t last, and surgeons and dentists are charging more.
There is no need to wait for royal commission recommendations to act on aged care. We can implement a national strategy to improve the sector’s workforce in the next year three years.
Flaws in the ABC Act set up conflict and allow the government to pressure it.
History shows the targets of product tampering bounce back, often with sales stronger than before.
It is a furphy that regulation for good corporate culture is impossible. It is done in the Netherlands and it is already under way in Australia, albeit in an unacknowledged, and limited, form.
The budget deficit is as good as dead. For practical purposes we are back to normal with financial firepower recharged for the next crisis.