I have long been concerned about the capacity of Australian listed companies to be able to place large amounts of shares to institutional investors at deep discounts to current market prices.
Craig Emerson ("Hedging against the next shock", August 16) is right. If "helicopter money" is the next stage of monetary easing, then it is best to spend it on economically and socially useful infrastructure.
Not only is the human cost to refugees incarcerated far too high, there is also a cost to us all as human beings: we are becoming accustomed to the idea that we can knowingly commit psychological abuse as a matter of policy.
The pre-election innovation announcements by the government were welcome but the election was a huge missed opportunity from all shades of politics to take our collective heads out of the sand and to put innovation at the heart of the public expenditure agenda.
The NSW government has been sucked into the directionless and non-energy producing privatisation vortex.
Leaving aside the claimed hacking of the online census, there were other problems with it that go to the competence of those behind the syst...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt's stunning about-face to reinstate funding and priority to climate research – just months after staff cutback...
The NAPLAN results are out and again they are incendiary. As a teacher I used to, in jest, refer to them as Napalm, since they were so destr...
Liverpool community activist Michael Byrne is wrong about the Moorebank intermodal terminal ("Aurizon exit from Moorebank timely" Letters, A...
I write in response to Carole Peter's letter ("Students need engagement, not dollars", August 3) re Aurukun school.
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