Category Archives: Business
how RBA Governor Lowe sees the year ahead

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe has painted an optimistic view of where the Australian economy is heading after a turbulent 2021. Just how crazy last year was is highlighted by the differences between the bank’s forecasts at the…
Morrison a ‘psycho’ – now who would have said that?

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. A flurry of categorical denials by senior ministers has followed the report that a current Liberal cabinet minister described Scott Morrison as a “psycho” in a text exchange with then NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian during the summer bushfires…
Watch The Conversation’s live-streamed events from 2021

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. 2021 was yet another tumultuous year in news. The pandemic once again plunged Australia’s east coast into rolling lockdowns, the vaccine rollout recovered from a slow start, sexual misconduct and integrity issues put the Morrison government on the…
notes from the sidelines of catastrophe

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Can we grieve not for a person but for an institution? Should we be angry over possibilities destroyed, young talents denied a chance to flourish? Is there any point in lamenting greed, short-sightedness, the brutality of power? As…
News Corp’s deal with Google and the Melbourne Business School questioned by journalism academics

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. News Corp Australia and Google have announced the creation of the Digital News Academy in partnership with the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. It will provide digital skills training for News Corp journalists and other…
Scott Morrison pursues commercialisation of Australian research with $2 billion new money

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Scott Morrison will continue to tip out large dollops of money when he addresses the National Press Club on Tuesday, with his theme “building national resilience”. He will announce the government will fund a $2.2 billion Research Commercialisation…
COVID halved international student numbers in Australia. The risk now is we lose future skilled workers and citizens

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The saying “you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone” reminds us not to take things for granted. It is often when we no longer have something or someone that we recognise the value of what we’ve…
Labor leads Coalition 56-44% and Morrison slumps dramatically in first 2022 Newspoll

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Labor has opened a 56-44% two-party lead and Scott Morrison’s net satisfaction rating has plunged 11 points in Newspoll, after a disastrous summer in which Omicron has ripped through most of the country and deaths have spiked. The…
What that means for consumers and the economy

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The Federal Reserve on Jan. 26, 2022, signaled plans to begin raising interest rates “soon” – possibly in March – in a bid to tamp down inflation before it poses a serious risk to the U.S. economy. A…
why the maker of Marmite is feeling the squeeze

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As a major manufacturer of well known cleaning products, it is perhaps fitting that events at Unilever have started to resemble something of a corporate soap opera. In the last few weeks there has been increased pressure at…