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Housing Affordability
While many of us have relished the recent housing boom, others have seen price rises beyond their ability to pay. To help it walk the tightrope...
Sweet Jobs Turning Sour
Anyone who has happy childhood memories of that great biscuit snack, Weston Wagon Wheel, will also remember how the Wheel seemed to become smaller...
Dinosaurs Struggle in Uncertain World
As anyone in business knows the world of doing business has become unpredictable, unstable and uncertain. Internal business environments have...
Corporate Effort
Support for reform has faded, but business can still pick up the pace. The business sector---more specifically, the large resources companies -...
Team Bracks Now Facing the Hard Yards
It is approaching crunch time for the Bracks Government on fiscal policy. The pressure for even more spending is mounting and while the state's...
Competition Better than Regulatory Compulsion
We have now seen almost a decade of contention over the regulatory regime for controlling Australia's natural gas supply. The present warzone is a...
Time for Tax Cuts
The unexpectedly large budget surplus has again raised the spectre of tax cuts, and not before time. The tax reform of a few years ago did little...
The Regulatory Wave of the Future
Having pushed governments to their democratic limits, green groups are now increasingly focusing on leveraging the financial sector to achieve...
Clothing Industry Has Been Stitched Up
Five years ago in Melbourne and Sydney there was a flourishing second hand trade in industrial sewing machines with each reconditioned device worth...
Melting Public Money
The old adage---beware of government's picking winner---was brought home to many thousands of investors and taxpayers this week with the demise of...