Lesley Menzies isn't kidding when she says retirement villages have been an issue since they were first created more than 20 years ago.

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Recent political shocks – Brexit, Trump and the failure of Theresa May – are prompting much soul-searching and rethinking among the world's leading economists.

A team of researchers in the United States might have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in economics.

International relations will always be a test for us all. That's where the arts come in.

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It's a disturbing new trend playing havoc with Australian workers.

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Office politics isn't just about nasty workplace dynamics, it's also another word for the relationships we have at work.

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Even though unemployment is near a four-year low, wage growth is still miserable.

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Banks could have plenty of excuses to raise interest rates further, and investors can expect to be targeted.

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When Benjamin Disraeli made the famous quote there are "lies, damned lies and statistics" he could have replaced the word statistics with retirement village surveys.

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Those who think corporate culture is just a soft issue should take a close look at Uber.

Everyone can remember their favourite school teacher. Mine was my 5th grade teacher Miss Craig at Stawell State School Number 502.

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Only a few weeks back the Queen bestowed upon Frank Lowy a knighthood.

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The retirement village industry is crying out for federal oversight.

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There are still good people crunching the numbers to show that it would be possible to adequately compensate the disadvantaged while changing the GST mix and/or the rate.

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Meet Australia's most important woman - Christine Holgate. She has been chosen to head one of Australia's oldest, most financially and structurally challenged, politically fraught and controversial organisations, Australia Post.

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Even if our economy is punching above its weight in some ways, the same cannot be said for our sharemarket.

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Without addressing complexity in our tax system, there's no hope of stopping individuals from overclaiming and engaging in illegal cash economy activity.

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Paul Keating's classic line "never get between a Premier and a bucket of money" has new relevance for the countrys five biggest banks, after South Australia decided to whacked its own tax on them last week.

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A little after Friday lunch, Australia's population ticked over the 24.5 million mark. What's unusual is the increasing questioning of immigration's role in that growth.

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There is a hidden and worrying risk lurking for a particular set of mortgage borrowers, whose level of financial stress is about to get a whole lot worse.

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I've lived without electricity bills twice. The first time was in the 1940s and more than 60 years later, I'm doing it again.

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Overlearning the lesson of Steve Jobs' first fall at Apple - and of founder-led hypersuccesses at Google and Facebook - Silicon Valley's investors created a culture where founders are given carte blanche.

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Its founder's ruthless streak helped Uber become a fixture around the world before sleepy regulators and the slow-moving taxi industry were able to notice. But for its own sake now, he had to go.

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In the wake of yet another Rio Tinto director resignation under a scandal-heavy cloud it's only fair to ponder whether this company is accident-prone, unlucky or if there is a bigger underlying governance malfunction behind its series of poor director and senior management choices.

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Tabcorp's $11 billion punt has hit the jackpot. It was both a high stakes and risky gamble.

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Surging electricity prices are at least partly the fault of political bickering over climate change.

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It appears media players are attempting to make a pre-emptive strike and pick off some of Fairfax Media's non-core assets in the weeks before the main game of selling the whole company moves into full swing.

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The 3 per cent of tax payers in the top tax bracket have an extra incentive to play philanthropist before June 30 – their donations will be worth 2 per cent more for them than on July 1.

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Is there a way to turn "bad debt" into better debt?

Going to California