The government can shout about strong jobs growth, but it completely ignores that underemployment among women has remained high for decades.
The behaviour of life insurance companies is egregious, and regulation won't fix it. Governments must step in and re-establish government insurance companies.
Despite a sunnier outlook for big players like Nine and Seven, regional TV affiliates continue to write down asset values as revenue and profit forecasts worsen.
History will conclude that the critics of Labor’s GFC response 10 years ago were hopelessly wrong. By avoiding a sudden, deep recession, Australia also avoided testing out what its effect may have been on our democratic system.
How are we to understand the likes of Jeff Bezos who believes himself to be a champion of human rights, while workers in his factories have suffered heat exhaustion?
News Corp is replacing disappearing ad revenues with a model based on localised outrage journalism. Is it working?
A disclosure of increased ASX funds could throw into doubt Nine’s takeover of Fairfax Media.
Kenneth Hayne and his royal commission will likely reshape financial services for decades to come.
Let’s indulge in a flight of imagination for a moment. Could we change the fundamental shape of government so climate change et al are not ignored?
Some farmers may fear the needle attack could stop consumers buying strawberries, but the contamination crisis is unlikely to make a major on impact growers’ woes.