by Sophie Deutsch | Aug 4, 2023 | Advocacy
Composite image: James Flaherty / Getty Images In 1991, on a flight from London back home to Sydney, James sat next to a stranger that would help set the course of his career. In the air, the two passengers talked about the internet and the evolution of technology....
by Helen Hawkes | Aug 3, 2023 | Features
For a while there, Australia was known for innovation – celebrating David Unaipon as a ‘renaissance man’ for his early developments in perpetual motion and flight, lauding the teams behind Cochlear implants led by Professor Graeme Clark in the 1970s, and calling...
by Chris Sheedy | Aug 2, 2023 | Advocacy
One of the biggest problems within the SME sustainability sphere, says Dr Miethy Zaman, Research Fellow at the IPA-Deakin SME Research Centre, is that there is no clear definition for the term ‘sustainability’. It means different things for different organisations,...
by Philip King | Aug 1, 2023 | News
The ATO will dramatically increase its use of credit referrals to issue about 2,500 this financial year as part of “stronger actions” to recover billions in collectible debt and improve the tax performance of small business.It will also make more aggressive use of...
by Roy Green | Jul 31, 2023 | Features
Remarkably, the Commission used the review to target one of the key policies on which the Albanese government was elected. With Chalmers signalling plans for a “new focus”, it might turn out to have been one of the last chances for the “old” Productivity Commission to...