Vital Signs: Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology
Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages.There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the fina...
Australia's 2.5% minimum wage rise: there's something in it for you, and the economy
Australia has a serious wage problem. Over the past decade wages for all but the top 20% of income earners have flat-lined. This is part of the longer-term problem concerning productivity an...
Further Changes Continue to Influence Online Payment
Available in a wide variety of different forms, the term of ecommerce has changed over time to move away just from online stores and marketplaces and towards anything that involves an online...
NZ’s clean car discount is a turn in the right direction, but how much will it drive consumer demand?
www.shutterstock.comNew Zealand faces two enormous challenges if it is to meet its international climate change commitments under the Paris Agreement: biogenic methane emissions from agricul...
There's a lot we don't know about the UK trade agreement we are about to sign
We’re being told about the new Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement, but not a lot about most of what’s in it.After an in-principle agreement overnight, Australia releas...
Make Your Website More Visible with SEO Marketing
If you are running an online business or a website, your priority will be that your website should appear in the top search results of a search engine. Search engine optimization or SEO ...
The end of JobKeeper wasn't a blip. It might have cost nearly 100,000 jobs
MultifacetedGirl/ShutterstockAt its peak, more than 3.8 million Australians were on JobKeeper — three in every ten Australian workers. Adding in those workers already employed by gove...
Why should businesses hire a marketing agency?
Hiring a marketing agency will certainly be the best decision that you make for your company as it will help enhance your business amazingly. The toughest challenge for any business i...
New finding: jobseekers subject to mutual obligations take longer to find work
New Africa/ShutterstockUnder so-called mutual obligation rules, the Australian government requires the unemployed to complete activities (including training and applying for a certain number...
There are problems in aged care, but more competition isn't the solution
Karen McFarland/ShutterstockThe solution to most problems in most markets is more competition.Whether it’s the market for hairdressers, for massage therapists or for general practition...
Can Bitcoin become a real currency? Here's what's wrong with El Salvador's crypto plan
Salvador Melendez/APNayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, has got himself a pair of laser eyes – on his Twitter profile at least. Laser eyes are something social media users give the...
Vital Signs: It's not the Reserve Bank's job to worry about housing prices
Once again folks are pointing to the potential danger of Australia’s low interest rates.This w…
Morrison's dilemma: Australia needs a dual strategy for its trade relationship with China
En route to this year’s G7+ Summit in the UK, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison …
Other Australians earn nothing like what you think. If you're on $59,538, you're typical
Mattz90/ShutterstockI’m guessing you earn less than A$200,000. And I’m guessing you thin…
What would sustainable tourism really mean for New Zealand? Let’s ask the river
The Whanganui River.www.shutterstock.comExcitement among Cook Islands tourism operators and official…
To become an innovation nation, we really need to think smaller
RMIT, Author providedIt took a chance meeting between Cameron van den Dungen, founder of a start-up …
DIY SEO or Full service?
One of the most important keys to an online business is digital marketing or search engine optimizat…
New finding: in 49 Australian industries the major firms are owned by common investors
Novikov Aleksey/ShutterstockIn more than a fifth of Australia’s industries, the two biggest fi…
Here's what the budget did to get Australians into homes (hint: not much)
Among the bolder claims in last month’s budget was that “under the Coalition, home owner…
Responsible gambling – a bright shining lie Crown Resorts and others can no longer hide behind
This week the Victorian Royal Commission into Crown Resorts’ Melbourne casino heard from Sonja…
The four GDP graphs that show us roaring out of recession pre-lockdown
Back in the first three months of this year when we had JobKeeper, enhanced unemployment benefits an…
How Sydney's Barangaroo tower paved the way for a culture of closed-door deals
Crown Towers Sydney, at 75 storeys, is now the city’s tallest building. It should not exist, a…
Paying off a home loan used to be easier than it looked. It's now harder. Here's why
bmphotographer/ShutterstockSo you think it’s the right time to dive in and buy a home.I can&rs…
68% of millennials earn more than their parents, but boomers had it better
fongbeerredhot/ShutterstockA lot of us are pessimistic about our children’s future. According …
Selecting what matters: skill shortages are no basis for picking permanent migrants
Tim Gouw/Pexels, CC BY-SAAustralia should not target skills shortages when it selects workers for pe…
