If the government pays citizens who are not working, and refunds businesses who employ people who have nothing to do, this is not...

For the time being there are lots of things we cannot spend our money on. What will we do with the money we save? In response to the...

When the Auditor General released a scathing report on the allocation of $100million in sports grants, we all understood that funds had...

Is it possible to create prosperity by printing money? Have the Central Banks found the answer to the Philosopher's Stone? On Tuesday, 1st October 2019, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the cash rate to 0.75% in order to stimulate the economy. The objective was to reduce the unemployment rate to 4.5% and to increase wages. Over dinner that night, my daughter Kate quizzed me and Frank about how that worked. It turns out that it is not as obvious as Dr. Lowe suggests

To what extent should an employer be able to control the pubic expression of its staffs' political and religious beliefs?

The other day I met my old friends Marcia and Ann for lunch at Babka in Brunswick Street. It was good to catch up again. Babka is just a...

What is the best way to handle sexual harassment? What advice would you give your daughter or granddaughter? I get on really well with...

Kenneth Haynes' enquiry into the finance industry has exposed troubling ethical behaviour among those we expected should know better. But...

I read Dennis Glover’s The Last Man in Europe. Then I read Orwell's 1984 again. Then I re-read The Last Man in Europe. I appreciated it...

The high turnout and overwhelmingly positive result of Australia’s voluntary postal plebiscite on same sex marriage enabled our...

John Gapper, in an opinion piece, in The Australian Financial Review on Friday, 1 December 2017, “Facebook’s fight for the common...

In the spirit of the famous Harvester case, ACTU secretary Sally McManus is proposing an overhaul of the national minimum wage to better...