The efficiency dividend has become a euphemism for indiscriminate compulsory redundancies.

• COMMENT

Ever stayed in a hotel, used a furniture removalist or bought a kitchen appliance after reading positive online reviews and felt like a victim of bait and switch?

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For all the publicity Peter Dutton has generated for the coalition's tough-on-refugees, suspicious-of-Islam image, he's only added a tenuous terrorism footnote to an old story.

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America's rate of growth has been slowing for decades, starting long before the onset of the global financial crisis.

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Reserve Bank assistant governor Chris Kent missed a major opportunity this week. He delivered a speech about how the various states are travelling but totally omitted a key reason for the two out-performers doing so well.

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Since the raids were conducted, there has been numerous theories around why Crown in particular was targeted.

• COMMENT

Asian literacy matters. Yet even a cursory look at figures for participation in year 12 Chinese reveals the extent of our failing

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It's not too late for the nation to realise its potential. By selecting the right projects, we can certainly afford it – if only we had politicians with the vision and discipline to lead.

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Conventional theory on the strategy of mergers and acquisitions says that timing plays a large part in success or failure.

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Well that's one way to deal with the problem of bracket creep – don't have a wages increase.

• ANALYSIS

The president-elect plans to continue to own his global business while in office. This is a colossal mistake.

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If I were an Australian politician I'd think hard about the ascension of Trump before I drew conclusions for local consumption.

• ANALYSIS

Bond yields are climbing because of a feeling things are about to get better.

• COMMENT

How has poor little Oz managed to keep our economy growing continuously for 25 years while, in the same period, other economies have suffered a recession or even two? We've had good insurance policies.

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In December 2015 James Evans hatched a plan with the National Union of Workers to go under cover to expose wage fraud at a third party fund raiser for some of the country's most well known charities.

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Quite simply, the business case has not added up for the Arrium steelworks, even with bits and pieces of protectionism

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The fact that investors and retail experts are overjoyed about Myer reporting a 1.6 per cent improvement in sales in the first quarter of the 2017 financial year says a lot about the state of department stores in Australia.

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Treasurer Scott Morrison and the Business Council of Australia have wasted no time in grabbing Donald Trump's election as a justification for cutting Australian corporate tax rates.

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Would you trust Donald Trump with $US20 trillion ($26.6 trillion) of debt? How about lending him another $US7 trillion or so on top of that? You wouldn't be alone in thinking twice about the prospect.

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Woolworths' biggest problem child, Big W, just got a lot more difficult after the architect of its turnaround strategy, Sally Macdonald, quit after just ten months in the job.

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For every corporate gender diversity policy, for every well-intentioned plan aimed at stamping out sexual harassment and bullying, there is a man on whom the message is lost.

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Australia must be prepared to undergo hard structural reforms.

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Shareholders in $11.5 billion commercial property company, Goodman Group, must this week be wondering just how good its chief executive Greg Goodman is.

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The president-elect's inflationary pledges have difficult implications for emerging markets.

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Sorry, but I find the ascent of Donald Trump more fascinating than frightening. If it's all going to be so terrible, how exactly is he going to make it happen?

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The caveat has go up front: given his propensity for lying, exaggerating and generally raving, nobody can know what Donald Trump will actually do as president. He probably doesn't know himself. 

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Donald Trump's big win might seem a big loss for China. However, his policies will ultimately work to China's advantage.

• COMMENT

As we sit in the foggy aftermath of one of history's most extraordinary elections one thing is clear enough – Australia just received an enormous shot of financial adrenalin.

• COMMENT

Keep your shirt on. The world as we know it may be ending, but if so it won't be for a while. And maybe things won't change as much as feared.

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Australia has become rich on the basis of natural resources but we can't rely on it in the future.