by The Conversation | Sep 25, 2023 | Features
By that it meant that the world’s biggest and most profitable companies no longer worked with oil, as they had throughout the 20th century, but with data. By 2022, three of the world’s five most profitable companies specialised in data – Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet....
by Vicki Stylianou | Sep 15, 2023 | Advocacy
In brief: Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 3) Bill 2023 passed both Houses of Parliament on 6 September, enabling an ‘experience pathway’ into financial advice without qualifications. While the provision of quality financial advice has been hampered by a...
by Chris Sheedy | Sep 14, 2023 | Features
“If you find the right partner, they can provide skill sets and strengths that you don’t have,” Andrews says. “They can share the load, the costs and the burden of running a business, and you can bounce ideas off each other.” That all sounds positive. So, what went...
by David Walker | Sep 13, 2023 | Features
Wood has joined an international squad of sleuths to solve a problem that’s now two decades old. As the incoming head of Australia’s Productivity Commission, Wood must try to solve the productivity mystery. It has largely emerged over the past quarter-century –...
by The Conversation | Sep 12, 2023 | Features
New research from the e61 Institute finds that in all but one of 17 broad industry divisions identified by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian industries are on average more concentrated than their counterparts in the United States. The measure used is...