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Start-up givvable gets backing from CBA and Microsoft
A start-up led by a team of two sisters has been named winner of the inaugural Xccelerate2020 venture program hosted by X15 Ventures, taking home a total prize value of…
Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing
A $4 billion ten-year agreement between the federal and Northern Territory governments that aims to see up to 270 houses built annually in remote Indigenous communities will be unveiled…
Australia will soon have its first Islamic bank. What does this mean, and what are the challenges?
Islamic banks have become an integral part of the financial system in many Muslim-majority countries, as well as in nations with sizeable Muslim minorities such as the United Kingdom, South…
Going cashless isn't straightforward. Ask Sweden, or Zimbabwe
Shutterstock“No Cash Accepted” signs are increasingly common in Australian shops, thanks to COVID-19. Even before the the pandemic struck, though, we were well along the cashless path, with demand for…
timing of Yallourn's closure shows it's high time for a carbon price
Kip Scott/ShutterstockIf you ever doubted the price of renewable energy was falling so rapidly it would eventually replace fossil fuels, the expedited closure of the Yallourn coal-fired power plant should…
Two people want to share the job of MP for Higgins. Is it constitutional?
Image from Bradlow + Bock campaignCan the job of being a federal member of parliament be shared by two or more persons? Two prospective candidates for the inner-Melbourne federal…
how Milgrom and Wilson changed the face of auctions
©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThe most celebrated theory in all of economics, the so-called First Welfare Theorem, says that, provided there is perfect competition and perfect information, free…