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Australia Post is losing hundreds of millions of dollars on letters delivery. People just don’t need a daily postal service like they used to.
More and more Australia Post workers are reporting dog bites in the course of their work. What should you do if you witness a dog attack? And what if you’re the victim?
Don’t expect to buy online in early December and have your parcel delivered by the 25th.
The sections of the Senate inquiry report dealing with Australia Post’s future should be the most interesting. But they are the least satisfying.
The Senate inquiry into the Christine Holgate affair has declared Scott Morrison, shareholder minister and the Australia Post board should apologise to the former CEO
Christine Holgate’s new job will cost Australia Post, and Australian taxpayers.
Christine Holgate’s demise over luxury watches shows public-sector norms and private-sector competition don’t mix well.
Director’s responsibilities are to the company, not the the owners, even if those owners are the government.
Act now. Anything ordered from late November may not arrive until 2021.
Chief of Australia Post Christine Holgate today resigned following evidence given before Senate estimates last week that Australian Post employees were gifted Cartier watches.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Professor Paddy Nixon
Australia Post has long yearned to be freed from its obligation to deliver letters daily. With the COVID-19 pandemic it has been given that chance.
Handwritten letters are disappearing. There’s no need to deliver each one within three days.
Australia Post has begun conducting experiments with mail delivery robots. With Amazon launching today in Australia, all eyes will be on whether these prototype robots will actually deliver.
It’s not just that Ahmed Fahour earns a lot of money. Australia Post had, until this week, been able to keep its CEO’s salary top secret.
Firms that are trying to branch out into new technology, while at the same time retaining traditional business, are facing similar problems to startups.
Unless Australia Post is freed to operate on an even playing field with its major parcel competitors, Australians can expect to see higher postage prices and more job cuts.
The consequences of digital disruption on one of government’s largest and iconic enterprises, Australia Post, are impossible to ignore. Now, it’s adapt or perish.
For most of us stamps have become infrequent objects of daily life but they continue to be produced, and collected by devotees – so what do they say about us as a nation?
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, College of Business, Zayed University
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Lecturer, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor & UTS innovation adviser, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Public Management, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University
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Deputy CEO, Regional Australia Institute
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Associate Dean Digital and Innovation, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
