Coon's rebranding dilemma: polishing a brand name to stay out of controversy
The makers of Coon cheese will no doubt have paid close attention to the publicity surrounding Nestle’s rebadging of its Red Skins and Chicos confectionary brands.While the change of C...
Vital Signs: Janet Yellen, the very model of a modern Madam Secretary
It is widely tipped that US president-elect Joe Biden will nominate Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary – one of the most important posts in any administration. She will make for a terr...
Data from 45 countries show containing COVID vs saving the economy is a false dichotomy
ShutterstockThere is no doubt the COVID-19 crisis has incurred widespread economic costs. There is understandable concern that stronger measures against the virus, from social distancing to...
From here on our recovery will need more than fiscal policy, it'll need redistribution
From the 1980s right through to the global financial crisis, the standard response in Australia and elsewhere to too weak or too strong an economy has been monetary policy — the manipu...
NZ needs a plan to help migrant workers pick fruit and veg, or prices will soar and farms go bust
www.shutterstock.comThe COVID border restrictions might be saving lives but they’re also threatening the livelihoods of New Zealand farmers, unless a way can be found to allow Pacific ...
So you think economic downturns cost lives? Our findings show they don't
Dmitry Kalinovsky/ShutterstockThroughout the coronavirus recession we’ve been told there’s a balancing act when it comes to lives. On one hand, lockdowns save lives by limiting t...
Pacific tourism is desperate for a vaccine and travel freedoms, but the industry must learn from this crisis
www.shutterstock.comNews of successful COVID-19 vaccine trials has raised hopes in the Pacific that the hard-hit tourism industry will begin to re-open in 2021.Even before the vaccine announ...
Hating on the Woodville Pizza guy won't fix a problem that was entirely foreseeable
ShutterstockOver the course of a single week South Australia was plunged into one of the world’s strictest, and briefest, lockdowns.The drama, estimated to have cost the state’s ...
News of the collapse of the Grocon empire is greatly exaggerated
Grocon, the Australian construction empire that grew from the family concreting business started by Luigi Grollo in Melbourne in 1948, is on its last legs.But Grocon, the privately held prop...
Axing stamp duty is a great idea, but NSW is going about it the wrong way
jannoon028/ShutterstockIn tax design as in many endeavours, it’s easy to work out how things should be; harder to work out how to get there.In NSW, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet wants to...
5 reasons why banishing backpackers and targeting wealthy tourists would be a mistake for NZ
www.shutterstock.comRaise your hand if you’ve ever travelled for weeks or months as a backpacker on a limited daily budget. Keep your hand up if you were made welcome in the places you...
What matters is the home: review finds most retirees well off, some very badly off
zstock/ShutterstockThe government’s Retirement Incomes Review paints an encouraging picture of…
How to Play Online Casino Games Without Risk of Losing Much
Playing real money games at online casinos has become very popular in the last few years. Play…
5 Signs It's Time To Get Your Website Redesigned
Your website is the digital face of your business. But given trends not to mention user demands ar…
'Courageous' investment means innovation stays in NZ, not sold off overseas
Shutterstock/ChameleonsEyeNew Zealand is in an economic recession and the government is trying to sp…
Retirement incomes review finds problems more super won't solve
Robyn Mackenzie/ShutterstockIt would be a waste if the Friday’s mammoth Retirement Incomes Rev…
Workers bear 71% to 100% of the cost of increases in compulsory super
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDThe government’s much-anticipated Retirement Incomes Re…
Australia, are you OK? Here are the groups with the highest (and lowest) life satisfaction
ShutterstockMeasuring the material factors of our lives — like finances, work, health — …
It's hard to see how Crown Resorts can be found 'fit and proper' to run Sydney's Barangaroo casino
ShutterstockAustralia’s biggest gambling company, Crown Resorts, has been told by the NSW Inde…
How to choose the right Christmas gift: tips from psychological research
ShutterstockChristmas is a time of celebration, relaxation and gift giving. But choosing gifts can a…
10 ways employers can include Indigenous Australians
The results of the first large-scale survey of the experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island…
6 Elements of a Well Designed Online Poker Website
There are many things to be considered when picking a high quality website to play cards on. You d…
We've just signed the world's biggest trade deal, but what exactly is the RCEP?
The giant Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership between Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, …
The US has turned its back on skilled migrants, giving Australia an opening
Will Langenberg/UpsplasnThe outgoing Trump administration presided over one of the most dramatic tig…
What a Biden presidency means for world trade and allies like Australia
Eugene Hoshiko/APBack in March, Joe Biden lamented “the international system that the United S…
