Are tax breaks broken?

Tax breaks for businesses are designed to encourage investment and economic growth, but – apart from filling the nation’s roads with aggressive Ute drivers – do they really work?

The soaring cost of retail crime

A new retail crime study has revealed escalating challenges for the retail sector, with shoplifting, employee theft, fraud and customer aggression rising to record levels.

The tax dodgers

Large companies in Australia and abroad spend a lot of time and effort avoiding their fair share of tax, often paying little or nothing back to society while reaping billions of dollars of profit.

The grey area

A new study from the University of Adelaide has revealed key markers that influence how commercial behaviour is perceived by courts, clarifying the line between legal and illegal conduct in commercial law.

Hi five!

‘Ebullient leadership’ can lift your workers out of the doldrums and increase productivity by making the office a ‘fun’ place to work.

You are being ripped off

Angry at covert pricing tactics? Blame inflation, a lack of competition and the insatiable greed of Australia’s supermarket duopoly.

Death by powerpoint

We’ve all sat through dreary powerpoint presentations which have distracted from, rather than complemented, the material being discussed, so how can it be done better?

Jobs for the boys?

Calls to ban the big accounting firms from auditing the companies they are also paid to consult sound sensible but could have unintended consequences.

Tourist traps

A decade after short-term tourist rentals debuted down under, the changes to tourist towns can be broken down to the good, the bad and the ugly.

Blockchain microcredit could boost international SMEs

A new blockchain approach to micro-credit transactions in Kenya could pave the way for its adoption in other developing nations – including the South Pacific.

Boosting indigenous employment

A new study from the Australian National University has found that Indigenous-owned businesses in Australia employ Indigenous staff at a rate 12 times higher than non-Indigenous-owned firms.

In the wash

The fashion industry faces huge sustainability challenges. But the bigger challenge is for consumers to work out who’s genuine and who’s not.