If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. For there is a victim in these parts, a leviathan victim. Persecuted and forsaken, it is the Business Council of Australia, the collective of the world’s biggest companies which operate in Australia.
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It was Sam Chisholm’s backroom antics which helped cause Telstra’s decline and led to...
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If you’re the sort of person who’s never had a parking ticket and has a similarly unremarkable medical history then you can almost certainly ignore this. On the other hand, if you are one of the one in three of women who have had a termination of pregnancy in their lifetime, or last year you were among the one in five people who had a mental health issue, or among the 125,000 people treated for an alcohol or drug problem, you need to read this.
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Cyber security and spying is the new game in town. It’s not the equipment vendors that pose the...
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Care for your medical information to fall into the public domain? Say details of a pregnancy...
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Corporations rarely fess up to data-breaches and identity theft. To do so might invite a public relations disaster, a run on their customer base. Do they have a choice, and will victims continue to receive secret settlements? This is an edited text of an address on identity theft prepared for the Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s annual conference on Friday.
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It would be interesting to know just how many retirees know, when they finally alight upon a leafy retirement village to while away their twilight years, that they are using their nest eggs to make a large, unsecured, interest-free loan to a property developer.
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It looks if the scourge of lobbyists will continue in Canberra if Bill Shorten wins the next election. As with the Coalition, there is no sign the ALP is prepared to curb the way lobbyists are corrupting public policy in Australia.
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Each part of Telstra CEO Andy Penn’s dramatic company overhaul – which involves shedding...
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Qantas’ recent concession to the Chinese government reminds us that if you want to do...
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Allowing companies to sue is a threat to free speech, writes contributing editor for The Monthly, Paddy Manning.
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Noticed the price of an Uber sneaking up lately? Rising fees perhaps from online travel agencies...
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