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The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →Startups are the heart and soul of any economy and society. They generate ideas, products and jobs far in excess of any other vehicle or mechanism.
The past few weeks have been somewhat tumultuous in the music industry, with the departure of two of the music industry’s best regarded executives, David…
Continue reading →The Economist has published an interesting report on the growing pains, opportunities and stories of an emerging global city – Dubai. It raises an interesting…
Continue reading →It’s amazing. The soaring price of copper has led to organised theft of copper wire and materials from instrastructure such as tram lines and electricity…
Continue reading →One of the greatest thinkers, revolutionaries, philosophers, leaders and liberal evangelists this world has known, Milton Friedman, has died at the age of 94. The…
Continue reading →The Bracks Government today announced that it was buying back it’s lease with Pacific National to operate the Victorian country rail network. This nationalisation sets…
Continue reading →Virtual world: tax man cometh – BizTech – Technology – theage.com.au The Australian Tax Office is with it… In another sign that the virtual worlds…
Continue reading →There are huge changes in the relationship between the online and real worlds (the real world being referred to in cyberspace and in this piece…
Continue reading →In “Why Globalisation Works”, Martin Wolf, an editor of The Financial Times, has written a magnificent book which works to dissect globalisation, explaining the benefits…
Continue reading →Peter Costello – take a bow! In securing Melbourne as the headquarters of the Future Fund, the $140 Billion Investment Fund to be set up…
Continue reading →It is the International Year of Microcredit? Microcredit is such a cool concept. A means to empower those who are poor and unable to assist…
Continue reading →A very interesting article in the English Version of DER SPIEGEL, the respected German Newspaper. It is with Kenyan Economist James Shikwati, who PLEADS with…
Continue reading →Why should one of the world’s largest designer clothing companies bow down to some ill-considered and ignorant demand by some uneducated, reactionary extremist extremist organisation?…
Continue reading →I have long believed in small government and small taxation. In Australia, this has seemed like a pipe dream due to the lack of control…
Continue reading →A great little article which discusses the tradition and family that is News Corp in the context of the last AGM to be held in…
Continue reading →Shout it from the rooftops. The rich are getting richer in Australia – but the poor are getting richer quicker! According to this report, average…
Continue reading →Mark Latham has been talking about a “secret tax” on energy to fund renewable resources. A concern – and not necessarily something to be believed….
Continue reading →The fear and loathing which has poured from the creative industries about the upcoming Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US is an ill-informed and…
Continue reading →There was a time when music companies objected to the playing of music on the radio. Instead of seeing early radio technology as a positive…
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