Late payments, neo-liberalism and protectionism

Some owner drivers wait up to four months for payment, resulting in mounting stress on their businesses, already under ...

It is surprising to see Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell suddenly so interested in late payments to businesses. Ms Carnell helped abolish 30-day guaranteed payments to owner driver trucking businesses when she opposed the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal [while at the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry] - with devastating consequences.

China's aggressions since World War Two have been extensive.

China, nuclear waste and Gerry Harvey

Brian Toohey is smart enough to know a little about history and realpolitik, so I was surprised by his complacency about China's intentions ("We are better off without security blanket anyway" November 16). 

View from the top of the Victoria Tower, the lesser known of the two towers of the Houses of Parliament, towards Big ...

Neo-liberalism, refugees and rupees

In the West all major parties have adopted neo-liberal positions for over 30 years and the outcome has been declines in the manufacturing industry, massive public and private debt, huge disparities in disposable income and wealth distribution, and disillusion with the political system itself.

The official unemployment rate conceals the fact that full-time jobs are disappearing at an alarming rate.

Advancing Australia, Orange and Trump

There was a time when Australia stood tall, beholden to no one, capable of producing most of what it required. Now we nervously worry about what Donald Trump will or won't do, and twitch whenever China looks like slowing down. 

Directors are exposed to systemic unethical conflicts.

Corporate governance and Donald Trump

The "Many unconscious to ethical problems" (Business Ethics special report, November 10) include the corporate regulator, the banking regulator, the stock exchange and the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. This is because they mislead the public into believing that just because auditors are independent firms, they can be independent of the directors who hire and pay them to judge their accountants.