Friday, October 3, 2025

The decoy effect: how you are influenced to choose without really knowing it

The decoy effect: how you are influenced to choose without really knowing it The decoy effect is the phenomenon where consumers swap their preference between two options when presented with a third option. Shutterstock Gary Mortimer, Queensland...

The more women in government, the healthier a population

End Washington Corruption Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected, but it isn’t working for anyone else. Companies and wealthy individuals spend billions every year to influence Congress and federal agencies to put...

Banking RC Report: The banks have learned how to rort the system

The Banking RC Report marginalises small business borrowers, effectively calling them sore losers and whingers and telling them to bugger off once and for all, writes Dr Evan Jones. THE Financial Services Royal Commission Final Report has generated...

Coal miners derided climate action ‘sideshow’. Now it’s the main event

The Chief Judge refused the Rocky Hill Coal Project, near the mid-north coast town of Gloucester, on a range of grounds, all of which are important, but what his judgment says about climate change...

Negative gearing changes will affect us all, mostly for the better

Negative gearing changes will affect us all, mostly for the better Don’t have a negatively geared investment property? You’re in good company. Despite all the talk about negatively geared nurses and property baron police officers, 90...

Franking credits: everything you need to know

What are franking credits, how do they work and who is entitled to them? What is a franking credit? Franking credits are only available to Australian residents, and not to foreign owners of Australian companies....

Bank leadership clearout needed to clean up culture

The current executives and boards of the nation's banks are not the right people to repair the financial industry's damaged culture, says Graeme Samuel, who is about to embark on a sweeping review of...

Taxpayers should not be subsidising lifestyle of wealthy retirees

A reverse death tax that helps the rich The dividend imputation system is a rort Australia can’t afford, write Emma Dawson and Tim Lyons. Australia’s dividend imputation system was introduced by Paul Keating in 1987. Its...

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