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Budget explainer: the structural deficit and what it means

The ageing of Australia contributes to its structural deficit. Flickr/Jonas Boni, CC BY Sarantis Tsiaplias, University of Melbourne In the lead-up to the federal budget there is the inevitable attention given to government spending and debt. But...
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BUSINESS

After damning the Commonwealth Bank’s management, regulators want the bank to fix itself

Helen Bird, Swinburne University of Technology A report on the Commonwealth Bank’s governance, culture and accountability has stripped away the bank’s delusion that it is well run and a model of good governance. The report by...
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POLITICS

Company boards are stacked with friends of friends so how can we expect change?

Sherene Smith, RMIT University Social connections drive board appointments and more than two-thirds of directors in the 200 largest public companies are on the board of multiple companies. So whoever replaces ex-AMP chairwoman Catherine Brenner...
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POLITICS

Facebook tweaks privacy tools to ease discontent over data leak

Facebook has made their Privacy Tools Easier to Find Making Data Settings and Tools Easier to Find By Erin Egan, VP and Chief Privacy Officer, Policy and Ashlie Beringer, VP and Deputy General Counsel   Last week showed...
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POLITICS

The financial sector is professional gambling in action

The financial sector is professional gambling in action Shutterstock/f8studio Chris Brady, University of Salford The American journalist and poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in his 1906 satire The Devil’s Dictionary that “the gambling known as business looks with...
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BUSINESS

Deposit schemes reduce drink containers in the ocean by 40%

Deposit schemes reduce drink containers in the ocean by 40% Uncountable numbers of drink containers end up in the ocean every year. Shutterstock Qamar Schuyler, CSIRO; Britta Denise Hardesty, CSIRO, and Chris Wilcox, CSIRO Plastic waste in the...
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BUSINESS

See-through, all glass touch display promises to add wow factor to any event

Back in 2011, we brought news of a stunning MIDI controller called the Emulator that promised to bring the club DJ out of the dark corner and take center stage. The company behind the...
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EMPORIUM

Welcome to 2018! Sydney New Year’s Eve Fireworks

Sydney argued with the weather and won Sydney’s stunning NYE 2017 fireworks spectacle Sydney celebrates New Years Eve 2018   Sydney has done what it does best with a dazzling pyrotechnics display that drew cheers and gasps from...
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