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May 21, 2013	Bangladesh disaster spurs retail giants into action	It’s been almost a month since the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, resulting in the deaths of 1100 garment workers. Some significant responses from business and governments have since emerged. First, in Australia, ...
May 16, 2013	Five big developments from Google I/O	Yesterday saw the end of the first day of Google’s three-day developer-focused conference Google I/O in San Francisco. And for consumers, there was plenty on offer. The annual Google fest is popular – tickets for this year’s conference, at ...
May 14, 2013	The GST debate: Is reform necessary?	Few taxes have been as politically fraught as the GST. The deal, brokered by the-then Prime Minister John Howard and the Democrats in 2000, was not only controversial for its political ramifications, but for the economic debate that ensued....
Apr 30, 2013	The debt jubilee: an Old Testament solution to our financial crisis?	The overhang of debt in Europe and the US has made recovery from the global financial crisis particularly tenuous. Is there a dramatic and simple way out of all this? Some argue that there is: a “debt jubilee”. Drawn from the Old Testament ...
Mar 28, 2013	Aliki Komps – founder of A City With Quirk	Aliki has worked for non-government organisations for eight years in the areas of vocational rehabilitation, learning & development, instructional design and training. Her tertiary background and current studies lie heavily grounded in ...
Mar 25, 2013	Can a bank bailout end the Cyrpus crisis?	Uninsured savings over €100,000 deposited in a troubled Cypriot bank may be subject to a new levy, under a deal reached to save the Cyprus banking system. The European Union (EU) finance ministers, the International Monetary Fund and Cyprio...
Mar 20, 2013	Analysis: Has the high Aussie dollar saved the economy from inflation meltdown?	In an address to the Australian Industry Group this week, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank Philip Lowe made a number of interesting remarks regarding recent monetary policy and the difficulties experienced by some sectors, such as manufa...
Mar 12, 2013	Why family trust tax arrangements might need some reform: Analysis	Family trusts have featured heavily as part of recent media reporting of the circumstances of two very high-profile families: the Rineharts and the Obeids. Of course, these are not the only families that have a family trust as part of their...
Mar 10, 2013	Microsoft’s big fine from European regulators a sign of broken trust for tech firms	When large corporations can shrug off financial penalties and seem indifferent to reputational damage because they’ve captured the consumers, you might wonder about the true cost of broken promises in high-tech global markets. That’s one qu...
Feb 25, 2013	How the Army can save the Gillard government’s NBN from disaster	The National Broadband Network (NBN) is in dire trouble and has reached the point where Julia Gillard should declare a national disaster. By doing so the government would be able to utilise constitutional powers to immediately effect change...
Feb 19, 2013	The price is wrong: ACCC overlooks supermarket power	The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced last week that it is investigating claims that Coles and Woolworths are bullying suppliers. The issue is serious, but the ACCC investigation only treats the symptom and div...
Feb 17, 2013	Inflating bubbles: Are Australian housing prices ready to pop?	As mainstream opinion would have it, Australia’s housing prices are solidly based upon fundamental valuations or intrinsic value. This position was repeated yet again by Terry Ryder, in an article on Property Observer, claiming “current pri...
Feb 15, 2013	Emily Murray: founder of Rise & Street Smart	Emily Murray is a social entrepreneur from Canberra, which means she dreams up and creates new ways to help people to help themselves. She feels a strong responsibility to use her life to increase freedom around the world, and to empower pe...
Feb 12, 2013	Say Hola! to a new route around web censorship	The ongoing copyright arms race between content owners and internet users has taken a new turn. Israeli firm Hola! has recently launched a suite of products that are variously designed to bypass geoblocking and accelerate internet-access sp...
Feb 7, 2013	Curbing The Cost Of College: Coursera Wins Approval To Offer Online Courses For Credit For Under $200	Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and the startups that love them, make their big...
Feb 6, 2013	Australian manufacturing needs new generation robots	Amid the gloom about the prospects for manufacturing in Australia — and the difficulties facing an economy dominated by small businesses (nearly 90% of Australian manufacturing capacity) — there is some cause for optimism. A new generation ...
Jan 31, 2013	ATO boss ?Chris Jordan breaks silence to staff in leaked email	New Australian Taxation Office Commissioner Chris Jordan has broken his silence. In a message to ATO staff two days ago in an internal magazine in his “Commish” column, obtained by Crikey, Jordan admits to being a bit daunted by his new rol...
Jan 24, 2013	Upsetting the apple cart: The core of Apple’s share price slump	The stockmarket was hoping for great things from Apple’s earnings announcement for the December quarter. Most of all, they were hoping for something that would turn around a four month slide in Apple’s share price that has seen Apple lose n...
Jan 21, 2013	Why HMV UK was deaf to the sounds of change in music retail	For some, the recent collapse of UK music and DVD retailer HMV is another sign of a music industry undergoing an increasingly rapid and radical transformation to digital. Although this is partly true, the dramatic situation that HMV finds i...
Jan 11, 2013	Hot desks, cold pies and chocolate bars	As Taskmaster readers will know by now, there’s recently been some renovations up at Taskmaster Towers. This has led to the inevitable question of where everyone is going to sit. The seating arrangements were eventually resolved through a s...
Jan 6, 2013	Top ten tech predictions for 2013	There is little doubt that 2012 was a massive year for technology – robots on Mars, exoskeletons offering signs that wheel chairs may one day become redundant, Windows 8, and 3D printing using recycled plastic. The biggest technology impact...
Dec 23, 2012	Tackling Buffett-style tax anomalies	In his 2012 State of the Union address US President Barack Obama lamented the fact that billionaire Warren Buffett faces a lower tax rate on his income than his secretary. The situation arises because the secretary’s salary income will be t...
Dec 19, 2012	Tech wish list for 2013	A year ago, I made 10 tech predictions for 2012 and I am pleased to say that they were mostly accurate, or at least not dramatically wrong. I, like others, did think that Apple would release a TV, which they didn’t and now I am less convinc...
Nov 4, 2012	Getting up to speed on the benefits of car industry subsidies	There are four facts we have all become aware of in the past few days – if not months – regarding car manufacturing subsidies. Fact 1: A lot of money has been given to Australian car manufacturers over the past decade. Fact 2: Despite great...
Oct 24, 2012	Making sense of Swan’s corporate tax shake-up	One of the more contentious issues in the 2012-13 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) is a tax-timing change. Corporate income tax will be paid monthly instead of quarterly for very large corporations (with $1 billion or greater in...
Oct 24, 2012	Telstra’s post-NBN future: Bigger but will it be better?	Australia’s telecoms landscape is undergoing a significant change as the fibre revolution swings into action but what will Australia’s premier ICT provider Telstra look like in 2020? Some might hope that Telstra will be a smaller company th...
Oct 11, 2012	CryptoParty Like It's 1993	As Techdirt stories regularly report, governments around the world, including those in the West, are greatly increasing their surveillance of the Internet. Alongside a loss of the private sphere, this also represents a clear danger to basic...
Oct 5, 2012	The Dark Side Of The Online Struggle Against Plagiarism	College students are under a lot of pressure, what with classes, resident activities, helicopter parents and a none-too-rosy job market waiting for them after graduation. Add the ease of cut-and-paste to the need to grab the almighty A and ...
Jun 22, 2012	SA running out of scientists	SA is running out of its best scientists, warns science and technology minister Naledi Pandor. Speaking at the 14th NationalScienceandTechnologyForumAwards last night, the minister said this warning had to be issued amid the celebration of ...
Mar 6, 2012	[UPDATED] Pi Day Contest: What’s Your Vision for Quantum Computing?	To celebrate Pi Day on March 14th (3.14), we’re giving away a cool Pi Day T Shirt from ThinkGeek. To win our Pi Day Contest, we want to know your vision for Quantum Computing. UPDATE: Congratulations to Matthew Leifer who won the contest wi...
Nov 30, 2011	Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers	Academia.edu, a social network for researchers, is having a good year. In 2011 it’s tripled its total registered userbase to 800,000, and today it’s announcing some major news that ensures the site will be expanding well into the future: it...
Oct 5, 2011	Princeton Tells Its Academics Not to Hand Over Copyright When Publishing In Scholarly Journals	Open access (OA) starts from the premise that the results of academic research conducted with public funds should be freely available to the public. In practice that means that scholarly articles arising from such research are made accessib...

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