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When foreign supermarket chains ALDI and Costco entered Australia, did Coles and Woolworths welcome them with open arms? What a silly ques...

In his famous book, The Greatest Show on Earth , Richard Dawkins’ presents a Forest of Friendship story, which contains within it a powerful...

I have just read a fantastic economics book. In entertaining detail, it outlines many issues in the economics profession that I feel stro...

The Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development has released a discussion paper about value capture; an idea that the incremental ...

Basics To think about company tax, we have to first understand it. These taxes apply to a type of entity run by humans with its own ...

When the Brexit vote stunned the world’s elite (obviously it didn’t stun the millions who voted for it) I wrote about some simple lessons...

1. Why is work virtuous? I know many people who think it is. But at the same time, accumulating wealth and assets, giving the ability t...

A draft of the new SEQ regional plan, a document that the State government uses to direct the development plans of local councils, is out th...

The privatisation agenda knows no limits. NSW has passed legislation to allow the sale of their land titles office. This is foolish. The ...

Despite the best efforts of the big end of town to get a free slice of the economic pie with subsidised private health and retirement ins...