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What happens when employees are fired for complaining at work
When an employee is dismissed after making a complaint, it's relatively easy for the employer to hide the true reason for dismissal.www.shutterstock.comIt’s illegal for an employer to fire an employee…
the idea behind Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving
The Grattan Institute has condemned the National Rental Affordability Scheme as a $1 billion windfall to developers.www.shutterstock.comLabor’s Rudd-era National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) has come under attack just when it…
Vital signs. Our compulsory super system is broken. We ought to axe it, or completely reform it
We're taking money from people, letting it fall through the cracks, and spending no less than we were on pensions.ShutterstockThe just-announced inquiry into Australia’s retirement income system ought to be…
Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on the mid-year budget update
The forecast for Australia's economic growth in 2019-20 has been cut by 0.25%, and the projected surplus for this financial year slashed by A$2.1 billion.The ConversationThe mid-year budget update has…
The misuse of data and lack of transparency by big tech firms
The misuse of data and the lack of transparency by big tech firms to be combated with Data4Good event With the widespread lack of transparency and misuse of data by large…
How to Stay Ahead in the Age of Digital Disruption
These days, most professions have been disrupted by technology and/or artificial intelligence in some way, with accounting, law, engineering and the financial industries among them. Tasks such as book keeping…
Lunch with bankers. Even they're unimpressed with their new Banking Code of Conduct
Bankers put on a lunch to sell their Banking Code of Conduct. They didn't take questions.ShutterstockOne of my banks invited me to a customer lunch a few weeks back so…
How a humble Perth boathouse became Australia's most unlikely tourist attraction
In Perth it's called the Crawley Edge Boatshed, but this building is better known around the world as the #blueboathouse.www.shutterstock.comIt’s a simple building. A shed, really. You can’t go inside…