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Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology
Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages.There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since…
how job insecurity shapes your personality
ShutterstockWith unemployment at its highest rate in three decades, almost a million Australians are experiencing the anxiety of being out of work. Even more are underemployed, and more still holding…
Morrison government's industrial relations bill is a business wish list
“We are all in this together,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison solemnly intoned in April – and for a brief few months, in the face of the economic crisis wrought by…
Sure, the RBA froze interest rates this time, but there's plenty of pain to come
Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-NDAustralia’s Reserve Bank has hit pause on interest rates after ten successive hikes, but for many Australians, the pain it has inflicted is about to begin.The…
Open-plan office noise increases stress and worsens mood: we've measured the effects
Monkey Business Images/ShutterstockIf you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it.Prior to the pandemic 70%…
What Albanese needs to build a new industrial relations consensus
A few weeks before his election victory, Anthony Albanese made an important speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He talked of “socially inclusive growth – the kind…
Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel was a strategic miscalculation. Can all-out war now be averted?
Close to midnight on April 13, hundreds of military drones were launched from both Iran and Iraq toward Israel. Subsequently, several waves of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets followed…