How workers can be heard when unions are on the wane
Apr 22, 2016 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
Employee voice is often heralded as a core characteristic of high-performing, innovative workplaces and as an antecedent to employee engagement. As Australian workplaces face ever present challenges to increase...
Could gambling be the secret to saving when rates are so low?
Apr 22, 2016 08:02 am UTC| Insights & Views
Many interest rates in the U.S. are close to zero and even negative in some parts of the world, like Japan. Not unexpectedly, U.S. savings rates are also quite low as individuals ask themselves: Why save a lot of money...
Affordable, sustainable, high quality urban housing? It's not an impossible dream
Apr 22, 2016 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
A quiet revolution is happening in housing development in Australia. It started small, with a group of architects in Melbourne, but has the potential to transform the way urban housing is conceived, funded, and designed...
The battle for audiences as free-TV viewing contiues its decline
Apr 22, 2016 07:11 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Its not been a good year so far for Australias traditional television industry with reports that prime-time audiences are down almost 5% amid competition from internet streaming services. But the decline in the number...
Meet the nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution
Apr 22, 2016 01:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
A group of physicists recently built the smallest engine ever created from just a single atom. Like any other engine it converts heat energy into movement but it does so on a smaller scale than ever seen before. The atom...
Competition as a fetish: why universities need to escape the trap
Apr 21, 2016 23:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business
Competition has colonised our world. Everywhere we go and every step we take, we hear the siren call of competition. Higher education, too, is trapped in a competition fetish. A fetish is the belief in something having...
FxWirePro: Hedge Euro yields on ECB’s dovish monetary policy decision
Apr 21, 2016 12:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As widely anticipated, the ECB maintained its benchmark refinancing rate on hold at a record low of 0.0% on April 21st 2016, following a 5 bps cut in the previous month. As we expect the downward pressure on long yields...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight