Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent –...
Eva Cox, University of Technology Sydney
As we enter the business end of the election campaign, with pre-polling underway, there is a profound lack of...
How the Property Council is shaping the debate around negative gearing,...
Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney and Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney
We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but...
The problem with reinforced concrete
Guy Keulemans, UNSW Australia
By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is...
Singapore to out multinationals shifting profits
Multinationals suspected of routing Australian profits through Singapore will be outed to tax authorities, with the low-tax nation this week signing up to the...
Tax avoidance tactics laid bare: PwC tells multinationals ‘read the play’
The proposed voluntarily tax transparency code announced in the May budget is not worth the piece of paper it is written on.
The code is...
State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding...
Gregory Melleuish, University of Wollongong
Ahead of polling day on July 2, our State of the states series takes stock of the key issues, seats...