Catie Low
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Australia
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Cashie maintains lucrative allure
OPINION: Everyday Aussies feel gypped when big business doesn’t seem to pay its ‘fair’ share of the tax burden, which may help explain the attraction of the cash economy. → Read More
Time for a behavioural shift
OPINION: The boom-bust economy is a function of the business sector’s behavioural patterns interacting with the economic cycle. → Read More
Little shelter from fallout
OPINION: Australia is becoming increasingly vulnerable to global, and local, economic shocks. → Read More
It’s funny because it’s true
OPINION: Satirists can provide a wake-up call, showing us how easily we can be seduced by the spin of politicians. → Read More
Data key to marketing moves
OPINION: Businesses risk being left behind by rapid changes in customer behaviour unless they improve how they collect and communicate information. → Read More
Troubled times for politics and power
OPINION: WA’s domestic gas policy is now being lauded by other states, as the east coast power crisis continues. → Read More
Pay structure a matter of trust
OPINION: The argument about penalty rates has an echo at the other end of the pay scale. → Read More
Retail labours under costs burden
OPINION: High fixed and labour costs are big barriers to a sustainable retail sector, as recent failures attest. → Read More
Consumer choice can limit our options
OPINION: Modern commerce that places cheap and convenient at the head of the queue comes at a cost to other measures of value. → Read More
Seeds of change produce first buds
The erosion of trust in traditional institutions is changing politics, business and social norms. → Read More
Control at the core of AI rise
OPINION: Checks and balances are vital if artificial intelligence is going to work for us, rather than the other way round. → Read More
Coalition hot under the collar over climate
The government has kicked a remarkable own goal in its mismanagement of climate debate. → Read More
Media ripe for reset as pollsters pummelled
All bets are off when political upheaval upends conventional wisdom. → Read More
Taking responsibility, managing risk
Striking the right balance between individual needs of workers and the big picture is challenging, even for multinationals. → Read More
Managing the shift to automation
Automation is making some real changes in the workplace, but it’s the next generation of robotic technology that will really challenge our ideas about people and employment. → Read More
Lacking the confidence to lead
A lack of political direction and inertia across much of the economy are an unhealthy combination. → Read More
Blunt business threat to Australia’s creative legacy
A Productivity Commission report, and moves by giant international tech companies, could bring significant changes to Australia’s copyright laws, and we all stand to lose. → Read More
Failure to engage makes for risky business
Political and business leaders need to make clear, rational arguments to counter the more extreme claims from those who feel disenfranchised. → Read More
No-one wins from low-pay deals
Penalty rates may be the bane of small businesses everywhere, but for now, at least, employers are legally obliged to pay them. → Read More
Juno quest built on more than heroic assumptions
Aiming high is a noble goal, in science and in business, but the journey becomes perilous if the fundamental building blocks aren’t in place. → Read More