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Great Wall of China

Relax, losing access to China won’t make us the ‘poor white...

By John Quiggin, The University of Queensland In another round of the increasingly bitter exchanges between China and Australia, a columnist for China’s Global Times,...
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A department store employee wheels clothes across Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall on August 5 2020, as retailers prepared to close their doors to customers. Asanka Brendon Ratnayake/AP

Trouble at the mall as landlords and tenants ponder mutually assured...

By Matthew Bailey, Macquarie University “This is not a bluff,” Scott Evans, the chief executive of Mosaic Brands, has said of his threat to permanently...
Business + Economy
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minutes
Wages caricature by Wes Mountain in The Conversation

Australia’s top economists oppose the next increases in compulsory super: new...

By Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The five consecutive hikes in compulsory super contributions due to start next July should...
Business + Economy
6
minutes
Melbourne Central Shopping Centre | Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash

Retail won’t snap back. 3 reasons why COVID has changed the...

By John Daley, Grattan Institute It’s wrong to expect a “snap-back” at shopping centres, food courts, cinemas and other places where people used to gather...
Business + Economy
4
minutes
Spying eye | Photo: Shutterstock

A question of trust: should bosses be able to spy on...

By Val Hooper, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Gordon Anderson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Stephen Blumenfeld,...
Business + Economy
4
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PHOTO: Julian Elliott | Shutterstock | Sydney University

When houses earn more than jobs: how we lost control of...

By Cameron Murray, University of Sydney and Josh Ryan-Collins, UCL Real home prices across Australia have climbed 150% since 2000, while real wages have climbed...
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minutes