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Press Releases

IRI Appoints Alistair Leathwood as Chief Commercial Officer for Asia Pacific Region
IRI, the big data and technology expert for consumer industries, has announced the appointment of Alistair Leathwood to the role of chief commercial officer for the Asia Pacific region. Leathwood joins IRI from…
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Sets New Luxury Benchmark in Malaysia's Capital City With the Debut of the St. Regis Kuala…
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – 3 May 2016 - St. Regis Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (HOT:NYSE), today announced the debut of the brand's 38th…
How to get people to eat bugs and drink sewage
Disgust may be an impediment to many of us adopting more sustainable lifestyles, from considering alternative foods to drinking recycled water www.shutterstock.comIn wealthy societies we’ve become increasingly picky about what…
Whistleblowers still in the firing line from foreign influence and official secrets laws
Under the proposed changes to the Criminal Code, anybody could face up to 20 years in jail for communicating unauthorised information.www.shutterstock.comAustralia is in the middle of intense debate about new…
Australia and New Zealand are signing up for an international tax on the tech giants — but will it be…
Australia, New Zealand and many other countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year by not adequately taxing the profits of digital giants doing business in…
Working conditions in aged care homes are awful, largely because the work is done by women
Vulnerable Australians are in the hands of workers who don't have time to properly care for them.ShutterstockThe aged care royal commission is the just the latest in an avalanche of…
The charts that show coronavirus pushing up to a quarter of the workforce out of work
ShutterstockWe knew it would be bad. But we’d hoped it wouldn’t be quite this bad.Over the past few weeks, we at Grattan Institute have been working on ways to estimate…
The dirty secret at the heart of the projected budget surplus: much higher tax bills
Bill shocks are the flipside of a surplus built on higher tax collections and tighter access to support payments.ShutterstcokThe budget is bouncing out of deficit and is set to stay…