Equal pay was, and still is, one of the key demands of feminists. Basic to any idea of gender equity should be that paid work is fairly rewarded, whether it’s undertaken by a male or female.
In early…
“The object of [the Fair Work] Act is to provide a balanced framework for cooperative and productive workplace relations that promotes national economic prosperity and social inclusion for all Australians…
The election of Australia’s top corporate regulator Greg Medcraft to the chairmanship of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions has received nowhere near the prominence it deserves…
What do you get when you buy 900 million user experiences, mostly from smart devices?
Facebook’s float has been dogged with controversy: on Monday, its shares plummeted 11% and dropped another 8.9% to…
The G8 leaders' cautious embrace of “growth and jobs” on the weekend has momentarily buoyed international markets, but significantly, altered a 30-year focus on inflation.
For more than three decades…
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It’s an old joke, but hard to resist around Budget time. That is, that economic forecasting was invented to make astrology look respectable.
Over the past few days we’ve heard a lot about how notoriously…
There is a scene in the film Beautiful People set in London during the 1993 Balkan war where a young female doctor brings home a recently arrived refugee to her conservative upper class family.
There…
Academic publishing firms have been all too keen to monopolise a crucial public good: academic knowledge.
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One of the great outrages of academia in the modern age is the privatisation of the profits accruing to publicly-financed knowledge. One form is that of academic journals, a primary method of disseminating…
Toyota's approach to redundant workers caused "undeserved harm" and undermined productivity.
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UPDATE: Workers for transport company 1st Fleet were handed redundancy notices when they arrived for work this morning, after the company ceased trading.
Are we seeing something of this same attitude…
Feeding the world is entirely feasible, but food distribution remains a significant challenge.
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The Economist has its critics, but it still delivers lots of interesting data. I just found this table (published by EconomistDailyChart) of annual meat consumption per person by country. The data set…
Australia's not-for-profit sector is undergoing considerable reform.
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“How much should the taxpayer contribute to the charitable whims of donors?”
This comment was made in an article in the The Guardian on 16 April. It was referring to the fact that the UK Coalition government…
Focussing on health and safety responsibilities is a key development in addressing workplace bullying.
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Workplace bullying is one of the most contentious workplace issues. Against the backdrop of a forthcoming National Code of Practice on preventing workplace bullying, a recent investigation by Worksafe…
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