Archive
May 2013
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Sexual assaults in psych wards show urgent need for reform
17 May 2013
Women admitted to psychiatry wards experience high levels of violence and sexual assaults, according to a report released this week by the Victorian Mental Illness Alliance Council.
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When law, business and media collide, is sport the only loser?
17 May 2013
Cricket Australia’s Supreme Court legal action against its host broadcaster of the past 36 years, Channel Nine, is the manifestation of an identifiable pattern.
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Home is where the vote is: should politicians live in the seats they represent?
17 May 2013
Can someone provide effective representation for a community if they live outside the boundaries of the district they hope to represent?
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More money for the classroom – or for bureaucrats?
16 May 2013
Last night’s federal budget had few big spending items, but one standout area was the A$9.8 billion school funding reform.
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NAPLAN is doing its job in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
14 May 2013
As NAPLAN testing begins again, concerns will be raised about these tests from a variety of sources. I want to focus on a positive aspect that is emerging from a system that is understandably fraught with worry.
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The News Limited paywall dilemma: how to avoid competing against yourself
10 May 2013
You could almost feel sorry for newspaper owners. The internet is smashing their hard copy advertising revenue and they have yet to work out how to make money out of their online editions.
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Beating the peak without punishing the poor
9 May 2013
Australia’s electricity prices are rising and not everyone is finding it easy to keep up.
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Just how stressed are we when it comes to housing affordability?
9 May 2013
Property pundits are hoping the Reserve Bank of Australia’s latest cut to interest rates will help stoke the country’s flat property sector into life
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The ‘Asian Century’, an opportunity for the business leaders of the future
8 May 2013
The challenges and opportunities of the Asian Century for business leaders was the topic of a presentation to Monash University Alumni and MBA students by the federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Financial Services and
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Essendon drugs crisis: more questions than answers in Switkowski’s half-baked report
7 May 2013
From the outset, Ziggy Switkowski defined his report on Essendon’s supplements program as “constrained” because two parallel investigations could not be compromised.
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Old but not wise? Our growing anti-ageing industry
3 May 2013
Growing old is generally viewed in negative terms in our society. And our individualistic and consumerist approach to health care leads us to believe that it’s within our power to alter the “biological clock” — if we are willing and able to pay.
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Is early retirement history?
2 May 2013
A vast range of policymaking on age and work among most of the industrialised nations for more than a decade has been concerned with reversing the previous two decades’ trend towards the early withdrawal of older people from the labour market.
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As the victims of international price discrimination, Australians need to fight back
2 May 2013
When Woolworths is looking at parallel importation, you know that the Australian retail sector has a problem.
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Why deficits leave us ill-prepared for future shocks
1 May 2013
Labor has said all options are on the table to address Australia’s structural deficit and falling tax revenues, following disclosure this week of a $12 billion revenue shortfall, just weeks from the federal budget.