by Jared Mondschein, Rajat Roy and Vik Naidoo | Apr 17, 2023 | Features
Editor’s note: This article has been republished from The Conversation. The original article was published prior to the most recent change of government, and prior to Alan Tudge’s resignation. Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge’s push for better engagement between...
by Peter Martin | Apr 12, 2023 | Features
Australia’s decision to buy three nuclear-powered submarines and build another eight is so expensive that, for the A$268 billion to $368 billion price tag, we could give a million dollars to every resident of Geelong, or Hobart, or Wollongong. Those are the sort of...
by Peter Martin | Apr 12, 2023 | Features
Those are the sort of examples used by former NSW treasury secretary Percy Allan on the Pearls and Irritations blog, “in case you can’t get your head around a billion dollars”. Such multi-billion megaprojects almost always go over budget. For instance, when Prime...
by Trevor Withane | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog
Accountants advising clients who receive unfair preference demands need to be aware of the recent High Court decision in Bryant v Badenoch Integrated Logging Pty Ltd [2023] HCA 2. So, too, do the liquidators who make such demands. In Badenoch, the High Court confirmed...
by Jarryd Daymond | Apr 12, 2023 | Features
The fund will focus on investing in high-tech manufacturing. There are seven priority areas: clean energy medical science transport value-added manufacturing in agriculture, forestry and fisheries value-added manufacturing in mining military equipment, and “enabling...
