Got milk?

Sydneysiders who’ve spent the last couple of years dodging Milkrun bikers and wondered how it could ever make money have their answer. It didn’t.

SVBankrupt

The collapse of California’s Silicon Valley Bank is the second-largest banking failure in US history and the largest failure since the Global Financial Crisis.

Gender targets miss their mark

Gender diversity experts at the University of South Australia are urging governments to rethink their approach to gender targets as new research shows that they do not lead to expected improvements in gender equity for women in leadership.

Welcome to flatland

Big tech firms like Microsoft, Google and Facebook soon ballooned from scrappy start-ups into massive bloated bureaucracies which are vulnerable to the next wave of lean and hungry innovators, and Meta’s embrace of a ‘flat’ company structure may not save it from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive failed bet on the ‘metaverse’.

Four trends shaping female entrepreneurship

The Australian government can help build a new generation of world-class, women-led businesses in Australia.

Protecting migrant workers

Three quarters of migrant workers earn less than the casual minimum wage, with a quarter earning less than half so oganisations and unions across Australia are calling for whistleblower protections for migrant workers who report exploitation by their Australian employers.

Promoting indigenous trade and investment

Part of the new Australian Ambassador for First Nations’ mandate is to help grow First Nations trade and investment. This will change the game for Indigenous interests and Australia’s economic future.

Tackling workplace bullying

New research is at the heart of a new workplace bullying prevention program, launched by the University of South Australia and Australian software business, Teamgage.

Adventures in Atlantic City

The fourth excerpt from Mike Barraclough’s memoirs recalls his eventful trip to Atlantic City in the early 1980s and the decade’s technological transformation of the newspaper industry.

The first home of TCG

In the second part of his retrospective, Mike Barraclough recalls the humble beginnings of TCG, a firm which soon grew into a major player in the Australian technology industry of the 1970s.

The ABC of ESG

Environmental, social and governance business standards and principles, often referred to as ESG, are becoming both more commonplace and controversial, but what does “ESG” really mean?

Leader or liability?

Investor Elon Musk’s controversial antics at Twitter have raised doubts about his involvement in Tesla, whose maturing business may soon require a more conventional figurehead.