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Traditional customer service is struggling as consumers solve problems online and expect options in person.
There’s no evidence Airbnb is worsening housing affordability. Rather it empowers female hosts and promotes small businesses in remote communities.
What is lacking is Myer’s heritage, and the need for this to be carefully reframed and updated for the present day.
History tells us governments do not always get what they wish for, and in fact often perverse outcomes flow from policy choices.
As the online trade of pets becoming normalised, regulation is now needed to protect animals.
Many gig workers are classified as independent contractors, leaving them without minimum wages and other workplace protections. Creating a new category of worker could fix that.
The New Payment Platform may speed up transactions, but evidence suggests it could also lead to more scams and fraud, and many customers won’t switch over.
We increasingly celebrate entrepreneurial self-reliance, but for disadvantaged people, the certainty of an adequate income is a fundamental foundation. It may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.
Australia is on track to meet its ‘Closing the Gap’ employment target, but more than a decade late.
Research shows the majority of consumers have low financial knowledge and experience, but they are also prone to behavioural biases that don’t help.
The data shows a tricky balancing act for policy makers. Interest rates will need to rise but too quickly could squash the recovery.
The government has a lot of work to do on it’s proposed foreign influence and official secrets laws to ensure they don’t prosecute whistleblowers.
CBA’s risk management strategy clearly states that responsibility rests with the board of the bank for any wrongdoing.
Our financial regulators ASIC and APRA need a board of oversight, similar to what the UK has, to keep them in check.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants have come through Australia’s skilled migrant program. But we are wasting many of their skills.
Tourism Australia’s Super Bowl commercial is good strategy, reflecting familiar popular signifiers of Australia. Straying outside of these concepts hasn’t proven successful.
Volatility indexes show that investors have been complacent about the risk of a share market correction.
Population growth for growth’s sake (as a proxy for economic growth), without consideration for the demands this creates might actually compromise Tasmania’s economy.
Workplace cyberbullying is a growing problem and can cause more harm than traditional forms of bullying. Employers need to take active steps to protect employees from it.
The productivity gains businesses get some automating some jobs, aren’t being passed on to workers in higher wages, evidence shows.
Storing sensitive papers in a filing cabinet makes no sense when we could digitise them and control access.
Weak Australian inflation and housing credit data mean the Reserve Bank is unlikely to move on interest rates.
Research shows that cash bonuses are responsible for many recent financial scandals. The alternative isn’t that great either.
Federal politicians are finally moving against political donations after repeated scandals, but the economics shows lobbying should be ended regardless.