why inclusion is Australia’s next productivity lever
There is strong recognition now that we need to invest in building the critical AI and related skills in Australia to enable us to unlock much needed…
Business Council’s ‘competitiveness index’ more of same rubbish
It’s been a while since Australia’s worst rent-seeker lobby group, the Business Council of Australia, issued one of…
Find Your ‘Tarot Archetype’ For Strategic Insight Into Your Week Ahead
In a week filled with competing demands, finding your core archetype can help you decide exactly where to…
‘Let the ball slip’: Decades of government ‘coasting’ plaguing Australians, AMP’s chief economist Shane Oliver says
Australian governments over the past two decades have “let the ball slip” and squandered the momentum generated by…
Fast home internet linked to higher wellbeing in Australia
NBN Co has published research suggesting most users link fast home internet with improved wellbeing, alongside greater use…
Labor ‘softening up’ Australians for tax hikes as lacklustre productivity hurting the nation, Peter Costello warns
Australia’s longest serving treasurer has warned that Labor is “softening up” Australians for tax increases to pay for…
Be bold in May budget, roundtable guests urge Chalmers
It’s been six months since Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ productivity roundtable and the economists, business heads and union figures…
Bunnings, Kmart boss and bankers issue bleak warning as Australia told recession could be ‘only way out’
Australian executives are saying the nation needs to face the productivity music. (Source: AAP/Getty) Australia risks heading into…
Emesent unveils GX1 scanner to speed up site surveys
Emesent has launched a new mobile surveying scanner, the GX1, which combines LiDAR, RTK positioning and 360-degree imagery…
Jim Chalmers losing fight against inflation, Angus Taylor declares as rising costs outpace wage growth
Australians are getting “poorer” under the Albanese government as Treasurer Jim Chalmers has remained in “denial” over real…
Thousands of executives aren’t seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox
In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the…
Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI
For the back half of the 20th century (what Fortune founder Henry Luce called “The American Century”), MBA…