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Jenni Henderson, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, The Conversation
Jenni Henderson, Section Editor: Business + Economy, The Conversation and Wes Mountain, Deputy Multimedia Editor, The Conversation
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Eight charts on our growing tax problem: what abandoning tax reform means for taxpayers
Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University and Alan Duncan, Curtin University
As we move closer to Treasurer Scott Morrison’s third budget, what we do...
The ageing of Australia contributes to its structural deficit.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
The financial sector is professional gambling in action
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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...
Deposit schemes reduce drink containers in the ocean by 40%
Uncountable numbers of drink containers end up in the ocean every year.
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Qamar Schuyler, CSIRO; Britta Denise Hardesty, CSIRO, and Chris Wilcox, CSIRO
Plastic waste in the...