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| Aug 5, 2026 | Child abuse survivor spent 12 years building the child safety system, SAFE, that might have saved her | Ruby O'Rourke, CEO and Founder of SAFE Inc
A systems-led approach to early warning infrastructure is what I needed as a child, and it is what children across this country still need today.”
— Ruby O’Rourke, founder of SAFE
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH... |
| Jan 23, 2026 | Australia launches safeguard investigation on fabricated structural steel | In the notification Australia indicated, among other things, as follows:
"The first circular/issues paper by the PC will provide information on how interested parties can participate in the investigation. The paper will include the dat... |
| Nov 9, 2025 | - | Two years on from the Voice Referendum, Australia continues to reflect on what it means to walk together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. While the outcome of the referendum was a moment of sadness for many, it reinforced... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Odoo AI Launch and Australia’s Next SME Productivity Leap | At
Experience 2025, the company unveiled its new AI App, embedding artificial intelligence directly into ERP workflows. This positions Odoo within the global wave of ERP vendors operationalising AI, but its relevance is sharper in Australia... |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Commentary: Whatever Elon Musk says, DOGE is not the answer to improving productivity | SUTTON, Australia: US President Donald Trump has asked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to establish a Department of Government Efficiency – to be known by the acronym DOGE – to “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut ... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Bridging the digital divide: The future of Australian healthcare | Australia's healthcare system stands at a crossroads. As the population grows and ages, the demands on healthcare services are increasing at an unprecedented rate. Despite these pressures, the sector's adoption of modern technology remains ... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | Why wage theft issues are so prominent in Australia | Profile Smart WFM
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As wage theft criminalisation laws draw closer, Australian government and industry need to come together to solve chronic wage theft issues that have plagued the nat... |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Chemist Warehouse and Sigma deal shows why pharmacies need their own ‘Uber’ moment | A Chemist Warehouse location in Liverpool, Sydney, in 2021. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
There’s something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare.
Chemist Warehouse has a... |
| Mar 25, 2024 | Calls to increase competition amid Chemist Warehouse’s merger with Sigma Healthcare | A Chemist Warehouse location in Liverpool, Sydney, in 2021. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry of them across the business scene, a new blockbuster has ... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Hundreds of “nuisance” import tariffs to be cut from July 1 | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
The Albanese government will abolish almost 500 so-called “nuisance” import tariffs from July 1.
Items set to become tariff-free include toothbrushes, hand tools, fridges, dishwashers, clothing, and ... |
| Feb 27, 2024 | Hidden Lessons from China’s Coercion Campaign against Australia | Common consensus holds that China’s recent trade coercion campaign against Australia failed. Yet the consensus view misses important political effects and economic costs of coercion.
In late 2023, Canberra and Beijing stabilised bilateral r... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | How the Australian Government Sees AI Accelerating Productivity | Australia has a problem with slowing productivity growth. As the group tasked with addressing this, the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission is looking at AI as a potential part of the problem. Recently, the Commission released a... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Neural Notes: KomplyAi on why AI compliance is a competitive advantage for SMEs | Kristen Migliorini, founder and CEO of KomplyAi. Image: KomplyAi article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly AI newsletter we take a look at some of the most interesting, important and sometimes even bizarre AI news of the w... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Governments must improve protections to unlock AI’s full potential | Source: AAP Image/Darren England article-article-body
Australians who attend sports games could unknowingly be trading their biometric data for entry to the match as advances in artificial intelligence incentivise risky data collection.
The... |
| Jan 30, 2024 | Australia’s migration system is barring the tradies our housing market desperately needs | New housing construction is seen at Schofields, north west of Sydney, Thursday, November 10, 2022. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
Australia has an acute shortage of housing. Renters across the country face steep re... |
| Jan 22, 2024 | “Frightening”: AI-generated Indigenous art exploiting real artists’ work | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED 'INDIGENOUS ART' IMAGES FOR SALE ON ADOBE'S STOCK IMAGE PLATFORM. Source: Adobe article-article-body
People are training artificial intelligence (AI) on Indigenous art without the artists’ permission to cre... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Productivity Commission retail scorecard: Costs of doing business in Australia exceed costs in UK and US | article-article-body
Australian retailers face unnecessarily high costs due to government red tape, according to a Productivity Commission study released today.
The commission’s study, titled Relative Costs of Doing Business in Australia: R... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | SMEs could profit from government’s proposed changes to export bank | article-article-body
The SME sector could be one of the winners from the proposed changes to be made to the focus and operations of the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation.
A Senate inquiry into the controversial multibillion-dollar go... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | Business needs single cyber incident report portal: Productivity Commission | The Productivity Commission has urged the government to give business a single cyber incident reporting portal to simplify the burden of a growing number of mandatory reporting obligations.
In its Advancing Prosperity report [pdf], the comm... |
| Mar 20, 2023 | I helped write the Productivity Commission’s 5-year productivity review: here’s what I think Australia should do | Australia is a living testament to the benefits of productivity growth. An average worker today puts in 14 fewer hours per week and takes home a real wage six times that of the average worker in 1901 – all because we are producing more per ... |
| Mar 20, 2023 | Government opens another $150m for regional comms | The federal government has opened applications for $150 million in connectivity funding under its mobile black spot and regional connectivity grant programs.
The funding includes a $50 million tranche under Round 7 of the mobile black spot ... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Government urged to act as report finds up to 60% of Indigenous-style souvenirs sold in Australia are fake | Tegan Murdock, owner of Ngumpie Weaving. Source: supplied.
The Productivity Commission report has called on the federal government to do more to back Indigenous-owned businesses, after a study revealed two in three Indigenous-style souvenir... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Government urged to end 'broadband tax' | The federal government should scrap its so-called “broadband tax” and spend $750 million directly funding NBN Co’s loss-making remote satellite and wireless services, according to a two-year investigation by a unit of the Productivity Commi... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | This social enterprise wants to reduce the $283K hit to mothers’ super | Wealthtech social enterprise platform Super Fierce has calculated that the average Australian mother will face a $283,000 hit to her superannuation savings by the point of retirement.
Productivity Commission data shows the average Australia... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | Aussie mums taking a $283k super hit: Super Fierce data | SYDNEY, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wealthtech social enterprise platform Super Fierce has calculated that the average Australian woman who chooses to become a mother will face a $283,000 (present day value) hit to her superannuation sav... |
| Aug 30, 2022 | Summit cheat sheet: what is productivity, and how well does it measure what we do? | It makes sense for tomorrow’s jobs and skills summit to focus on productivity, but other more personal things matter as well, says Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow at ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy. Among them, the quality of our jobs.... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Albanese government pledges $18.6 million to small business digital training grants | Small Business Minister Julie Collins. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas)
The federal government has committed a further $18.6 million to boost the digital competency of small businesses across Australia, extending a program providing SMEs advice on e... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Yes, there’s a ‘skills shortage’. Here are 3 jobs summit ideas to start fixing it right away | Ahead of Thursday’s jobs and skills summit, Pi-Shen Seet from Edith Cowan University and Janice Jones from Flinders University present three ways to fill the immediate skills shortage that don’t rely on migration.
On Thursday, union, busine... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | Gov asked to reconsider future NBN, mobile funding injections | The federal government should reconsider the way it pumps money into NBN upgrades, mobile towers and other communications infrastructure, because the benefits of these injections aren’t transparent, the Productivity Commission has said.
In ... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | Does your business have ‘digital fluency’? A new MYOB and Digital Skills Organisation partnership aims to build SME tech skills | Unsplash/Surface
Business accounting platform MYOB has revealed a new partnership with the government-backed Digital Skills Organisation (DSO) that’s designed to close the ‘digital divide’ keeping small and medium enterprises from future-pr... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Up to 90% of Australia’s fuel imports could be threatened if conflict escalates in the South China Sea | Source: Shutterstock.
China’s sabre-rattling around Taiwan underlines the need for Australia to be prepared for conflict in the South China Sea.
With its growing navy and air force, and the bases it has built throughout the area, China is i... |
| Aug 3, 2022 | John Durie: Service-based economy dominates Australia, but productivity growth at lowest rate in 60 years | The Productivity Commission’s warning on the dominance of the services economy conversely plays into the hands of many small businesses which can now access digital benefits that a few years ago were out of reach.
The Commission’s interim p... |
| Aug 3, 2022 | Increasing productivity won’t lead to higher wages, it’ll just increase corporate profits | Source: Getty
If the Productivity Commission really wants to link productivity to higher wages, it should look at the market power of corporations.
The most important part of the Productivity Commission’s interim 5-year Productivity Inquiry... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Why is Labor trying to wind back superannuation reforms, and what could be the outcome? | Australian Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones speaks to the media during a doorstop interview at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)
Who could even question a requirement that super funds act in the... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | The ABCC has been a failure, with productivity in construction in decline under its regulation | While property industry and employer groups are warning that Labor’s promise to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) will lead to disaster in the building industry and militant unions running amok, the ABCC has... |
| Jun 6, 2022 | How to boost mental health and wellbeing in the workplace | As employees struggle to meet the intense demands of work-life and financial challenges in a post-pandemic era, the pressure on mental health is higher than ever. Rachel Clements, Director of Psychological Services at the Centre for Corpora... |
| May 6, 2022 | Whoever wins the election needs to fix Australia’s manufacturing sector. Here’s how they can do it | Source: Unsplash/Science in HD.
Most politicians vocally support Australian-made products. Manufacturing certainly provides excellent opportunities for candidates in high-vis to make election campaign announcements.
Labor has promised to ma... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Furniture company Outer expands ‘Airbnb of retail’ showrooms to Australia | Co-founder and Chief Executive of furniture company Outer, Jiake Liu.
A raft of changes in customer behaviour have transformed the retail landscape in the past two years. Lockdowns accelerated the growth of e-commerce by a decade, while the... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Productivity Commission to assess where Australia’s economy can make gains post-pandemic | The Productivity Commission will undertake a review of Australia’s productivity performance, in the second such assessment since the agency was directed to do the reviews every five years.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has tasked the commission... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | “Like a bad zombie movie”: Government brings back six-year-old plan to cut bankruptcy terms to one year | A federal government proposal to reduce default bankruptcy terms in Australia from three years to one would effectively render bankruptcy “pointless”, according to one insolvency expert.
John Winter, chief executive of the Australian Restru... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Australia could soon run out of diesel additive AdBlue. Here’s how we can stop that | Australia is going through another supply chain crisis. Stocks of AdBlue, an exhaust fluid used in newer diesel cars and trucks to reduce pollution, are getting dangerously low.
The culprit is a shortage of synthesised urea, an ingredient w... |
| Oct 20, 2021 | The future of the office is remote-first. Here’s what experts say will happen to the CBD. | (Credit: Getty)
The pandemic has transformed the workplace forever, as organisations that had previously committed to expansive office space pivot to remote-first work policies.
Experts say working trends precipitated by the pandemic may be... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Evolving lending market boosts access to finance for SMEs: Productivity Commission | Source: Unsplash/Blake Wisz.
New lending models and technology developments over the past decade have led to more financing options for small businesses — and we’re likely only seeing the beginnings of greater access to finance for SMEs.
Th... |
| Sep 22, 2021 | A Productivity Commission report suggested workers could accept pay cuts to keep working from home. One expert says the opposite is more likely. | (Credit: Getty)
A Productivity Commission report which investigated how the move to working from home may impact Australia’s economy and wages suggests employees could accept wage cuts to continue to work from home.
But experts say Australi... |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Is technology the real reason global economic growth has slowed? | Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages.
There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09.
Advanced economies aroun... |
| Jun 14, 2021 | The typical taxable income in Australia is $59,538. So why do politicians make it sound otherwise? | Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
I’m guessing you earn less than $200,000.
And I’m guessing you think you’re missing out. People keep telling you so.
On one side of politics Labor leader Anthony Albanese s... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Proposed law will see super funds working to the “best financial interest” of members | Source: Unsplash.
Have you ever wondered why your super fund rarely sends you mail?
It could be because it is one of the 36 funds that perform badly, or one of the six funds that perform extraordinarily badly. As of mid last year, those six... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Why Apple and others should make it easier, not harder, for third parties to repair smartphones | Source: Unsplash/Anton Maksimov juvnsky.
If Apple and other tech companies have their way, it will only become harder to have our phones and other devices repaired by third-party businesses.
Smartphones and many other tech devices are incre... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | JobSeeker saved 155,000 Australians from the brink of homelessness. Now that lifeline is being slashed. | Homelessness could again rise in Australia as support measures are removed. (Speed Media, Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
More than 155,000 Australians were saved from extreme rental stress due to increased government support during the p... |
| Nov 26, 2020 | Think taxing electric-vehicle use is a backward step? It’s actually an important policy advance | Source: Unsplash/Waldemar Brandt.
The South Australian and Victorian governments have announced, and New South Wales is considering, road-user charges on electric vehicles. This policy has drawn scorn from environmental advocates and motor ... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | The federal government needs to spend an additional $120 billion to avoid major economic scarring | Source: Chingfoto/Shutterstock.
Australia is in for a long and damaging economic slump, unless governments inject substantially more fiscal stimulus.
The July budget update forecast that unemployment would hit 9.25% in coming months.
The Tr... |
| Jul 27, 2020 | Research proves it’s harder for young people to climb the jobs ladder — and COVID-19 will only make this worse | Our memories of the job market prior to COVID-19 have become rosier: the last decade was a period of fairly low unemployment, even if wage growth was less than stellar.
But that perspective may not be shared by people under 35. For that age... |
| Nov 27, 2019 | “We risk being left behind”: Why the $2.5 billion training gap is bad news for Aussie businesses | Australian businesses are underspending on training and risk falling behind international competitors if investment in human skills is not increased, economists have warned.
New research into the relationship between human skills and wage g... |
| Jan 16, 2019 | “It makes no sense”: Why business owners don’t want to pick super funds for employees | Roll-it Super founder Mark MacLeod. Source: Supplied.
Australian small businesses are calling for fewer obligations when it comes to dealing with workers’ superannuation after an independent report into Australia’s super system found employ... |
| Jul 20, 2018 | SmartCompany explainer: What is bootstrapping and why should I do it? | The concept and practise of bootstrapping is something often talked about and lauded in business circles, but there’s likely many current or aspiring startup founders and business owners who don’t have a full grasp on what exactly the conce... |
| Jul 4, 2018 | Proposed future data sharing laws revealed | The federal government has called for comment on sweeping new laws that propose making far more public data available for sharing and release.
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on Wednesday released an issues paper [pdf] that see... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Royal commission shows bank lenders don’t ‘get’ farming, and rural economies pay the price | By Sally Weller, Australian Catholic University and Neil Argent, University of New England
The Financial Services Royal Commission has exposed the fraught relationship between farmers and financiers. We have heard about loan terms being cha... |
| May 29, 2018 | Superannuation shake-up: Employers should not be choosing default funds, says Productivity Commission | Young people entering the workforce should choose their own superannuation fund, rather than the present system of their employer selecting the fund for them, according to a Productivity Commission report released on Tuesday.
It recommends ... |
| May 1, 2018 | Australia to get national data commissioner | Australia is set to get its first national data commissioner, in part to build public trust in the government as the custodian of significant data assets.
The creation of the commissioner role is one of a series of measures unveiled by the ... |
| Mar 22, 2018 | Telstra's USO phone services fall 22 percent | Telstra has seen the number of fixed-line phone services it provides under the universal service obligation fall by 22 percent since 2012.
The number was revealed by the government at the end of last week as part of a stoush over the amount... |
| Feb 13, 2018 | Australia is missing the Closing the Gap employment target by decades | By Zoe Staines, Queensland University of Technology
Australia is missing its target to halve the unemployment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia by several decades, according to the latest Closing the Gap report.
The report... |
| Dec 13, 2017 | Behind the growing skills gap between jobs in Australian cities and the regions | By Todd Sanderson, Andrew Reeson, and Claire Mason, CSIRO
Over the past decade, the growth in high-skilled jobs has largely been confined to Australia’s biggest cities. Meanwhile, in rural and regional Australia lower-skilled jobs have been... |
| Dec 12, 2017 | Australian tech startups stand to lose out in proposed copyright reforms | The Australian government quietly introduced the Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017 to the Senate on Wednesday. If enacted, the bill will extend the scope of Australia’s copyright safe harbours – very slightly.
Safe harbours ... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | As the government continues push for company tax cuts, here’s five other ways to kickstart the economy | Company directors could be personally liable when coronavirus relief measures end.
By Jim Minifie, Grattan Institute
The Productivity Commission has released the first in a planned series of five-yearly updates on productivity in Australia.... |
| Oct 26, 2017 | Replacing pharmacists with robots isn’t the answer to better productivity | Shutterstock
By Helen Dickinson, UNSW
Reforming pharmacy services and the role of pharmacists is one of the recommendations made in a five-year review of the nation’s productivity, released on Tuesday. The Productivity Commission’s report, ... |
| Oct 19, 2017 | How gig economy workers will be left short of super | By Dale Boccabella, UNSW and Sarah Kaine, University of Technology Sydney
As a brave new generation of Australian workers enter the gig economy (such as Uber drivers, Deliveroo riders, etc), serious questions remain over how these workers w... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | Why Australia Post is going head-to-head with Amazon over GST collection | The goods and services tax will apply to low value goods purchased online overseas vendors from next year, but Australia Post is still fighting it out with the world’s biggest online retailers over exactly whose responsibility it will be to... |
| Jul 6, 2017 | Is mortgage debt going to mean you work in your business longer? | By Rachel Ong, Curtin University, Gavin Wood, RMIT University, Kadir Atalay, University of Sydney, and Melek Cigdem-Bayram, RMIT University.
Rising mortgage debt is affecting everything from employment to spending, as Australians approach r... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | CPA example shows why more member associations will have to disclose chief executive pay | CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley. Source: AAP/Alan Porritt
By Julie Walker, The University of Queensland
The wave of public discontent that’s changed how corporate Australia reports and discloses executive pay, is now moving to oth... |
| Jun 19, 2017 | Review calls for USO to be axed | The current universal service obligation (USO) for voice-based telecommunications services can be “terminated” once the NBN rollout is complete, according to the Productivity Commission.
Handing down a long-awaited final report today, the c... |
| May 8, 2017 | Productivity Commission sets aggressive timeline for Aussie data reform | The Productivity Commission has set a hugely ambitious timeline of just 18 months to drive “fundamental and systematic change” into the way entities handle data on Australians.
The commission handed down its final report into data usage tod... |
| May 5, 2017 | A plan to introduce ID numbers for company directors could be in the works | The government will consider introducing identification numbers for directors of Australian companies, after the Productivity Commission labelling it a necessary reform to the country’s insolvency practices.
On Thursday Small Business Minis... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Global productivity is slowing down: Three possible explanations | By Roy Green, University of Technology Sydney and Renu Agarwal, University of Technology Sydney
There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly re... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Global productivity is slowing down: Three reasons why | There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly reflect differences in labour productivity”.
Further, “productivity is expected to be the main dri... |
| Jan 4, 2017 | Aussie Productivity Commission Doubles Down On Fair Use And Serious Copyright & Patent Reform | Back in May we were both surprised and delighted by a thorough and detailed report from the Australian Productivity Commission noting that copyright was broken and harming the public, and that it needed to be fixed — with a core focus on ad... |
| Dec 22, 2016 | Australian Govt Advisory Body Digs in Over Fair Use & Geo-Unblocking | Earlier this year, Australia’s Productivity Commission released a draft report covering various aspects of the country’s intellectual property system.
Among the Commission’s recommendations was advice to the government that it should allow ... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | Coles wants $1 maximum bets for pokies—so why won’t the poker machine-makers play ball? | By Charles Livingstone, Monash University
Wesfarmers, operator of Coles and other retail brands, reportedly wants to pursue harm-prevention modifications to its poker machines. It has asked five poker machine manufacturers, including Aristo... |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Data minimization — the new design rules for startups | Nathan Kinch Contributor
Nathan Kinch is head of experience and labs at Meeco, where he spends his days obsessing about the value, meaning and engagement of human experiences enabled by first-person technologies. In a previous life he was a... |
| Dec 8, 2016 | Regional Australia is crying out for fair broadband access | Internet and broadband connectivity are the foundation of the networked economy. But to ensure the benefits of the networked economy are evenly distributed, the Australian government needs to ensure access to the internet to encourage and s... |
| Dec 7, 2016 | Regional Australia is crying out for equitable access to broadband | By Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne
Internet and broadband connectivity are the foundation of the networked economy. But to ensure the benefits of the networked economy are evenly distributed, the Australian govern... |
| Dec 6, 2016 | Dump Telstra's USO: Productivity Commission | Telstra could lose billions in government payments if Canberra decides to back a Productivity Commission recommendation to scrap the universal service obligation (USO).
The commission today released its draft report [pdf] on the USO, follow... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | CSIRO finds new hope for Australia’s endangered sector: “Manufacturing isn’t dying” | Despite the well publicised closure of some manufacturing sectors in Australia, manufacturing isn’t dying.
Instead, like industry around the world, it’s undergoing a period of significant change as new, disruptive technologies and economic ... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Increased access to data could bring many benefits but there’s some big challenges too | By David Glance, University of Western Australia
Although we currently live in the “Information Age” what we actually generate, and most of the time fail to make meaningful use of, is data. The Australian Government’s Productivity Commissio... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | Productivity Commission review: Increased access to data could bring many benefits but it also faces significant challenges | By David Glance, University of Western Australia
Although we currently live in the “Information Age” what we actually generate, and most of the time fail to make meaningful use of, is data. The Australian Government’s Productivity Commissio... |
| Nov 3, 2016 | Give consumers more power over their data: Productivity Commission | Australian consumers would have far greater control over how their personal data is collected and handled under reforms proposed by the Productivity Commission.
The commission today released its draft report on the country's approach to dat... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Australia is at risk of losing migrants who are vital to the health of our economy | By Chris F. Wright, University of Sydney and Stephen Clibborn, University of Sydney
Australia’s immigration system is at risk of losing public confidence, undermining its long running success. The government needs to make policy changes to ... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Illegal phoenix activity is costing us billions: Here’s one way it could be stemmed | By Helen Anderson, University of Melbourne
A proposal designed to stop illegal phoenix activity being actively considered in New Zealand could be similarly adopted in Australia, potentially saving billions of dollars.
Illegal phoenix activi... |
| Sep 19, 2016 | Government chases big productivity goals, but SMEs want the little things | The federal government is turning its attention a “productivity” agenda, but one of Australia’s most prominent retail figures says there’s a lot of work to do to secure the nation’s economic future.
Premier Investments founder Solomon Lew t... |
| Sep 8, 2016 | ATO presses for govt-wide data storage | The Australian Taxation Office is agitating for a shared data storage platform among federal agencies that could shave “several months” off lead times for data sharing.
The tax office’s proposal, contained in a submission to the Productivit... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Australia's big businesses rail against mandated data sharing | Australia's largest enterprises are lobbying against the possibility of new regulations governing the sharing of data, arguing they should be allowed to come up with such arrangements on their own.
The federal government asked the Productiv... |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Productivity Commission sets groundwork for long-awaited look at superannuation competition and efficiency | By Jim Minifie, Grattan Institute
The Productivity Commission has released its draft report setting out criteria for assessing the competitiveness and efficiency of the superannuation system. The final report will be delivered in November t... |
| Jul 28, 2016 | Not Just In The US: TPP Meeting More Resistance In Australia And Japan, Too | It’s remarkable how TPP, a previously obscure trade deal known only to a few specialists — and to enlightened Techdirt readers, of course — has suddenly become one of the hottest issues in the US Presidential contest. But it’s important to ... |
| Jul 28, 2016 | Health insurers accused of exploiting billing data | The Australian Dental Association has accused major health insurers of mining the HICAPS billing system for commercially sensitive data to give its in-house dental providers a competitive advantage in the market.
The ADA made the claims in ... |
| Jul 27, 2016 | Social Services wants to use payroll data to target fraud | The Department of Social Services says the unprecedented exchange of payroll data between employers and the tax office creates an opportunity to put a huge dent in welfare and tax fraud - if only legislation would allow it to happen.
The DS... |
| Jul 20, 2016 | Optus says Telstra's USO costs should drop to one-tenth | Telstra’s costs in meeting its universal service obligations (USO) should be “less than one-tenth” of the $290 million it receives a year, according to Optus.
The numbers form part of a fresh assessment by Optus of the USO scheme – used to ... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Fair Use Threatens Innovation, Copyright Holders Warn | Earlier this year the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission released a Draft Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements, recommending various improvements to the country’s copyright policies.
The commission suggested allowing th... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | Why workers are taking on more risk in the sharing economy | Rideshare drivers say it has become more difficult to work on one platform.
By Sarah Kain and Emmanuel Josserand
To secure work in the gig economy, workers often have to contribute not just their time and labour but also their capital.
This... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Why reducing bankruptcy to 12 months ignores the realities of insolvency | By Jennifer Dickfos, Griffith University and Catherine Brown, Griffith University
The proposed federal government changes to insolvency that reduce the bankruptcy period from three years to 12 months need to be questioned.
It has been argue... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Fast for the city, slow in the country: Will Australia’s digital divide ever be bridged? | By John Rice, University of New England and Nigel Martin, Australian National University
This week the Productivity Commission released an issues paper as part of an inquiry into the adequacy of Australia’s Universal Service Obligation (USO... |
