By Richard Holden >>
EDITOR’S PREVIEW
PROFESSOR RICHARD HOLDEN researched the Federal Labor Government’s taxation direction in the 2026 Federal Budget and was horrified to deduce that its effect would be to place extra tax on businesses that are actually improving their productivity. Productivity is – up until now it seems – what Australian Governments…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
THERE ARE ENORMOUS opportunities now opening for financial technology (fintech) companies.
Grant Augustin, the founder and CEO of SISS Data Services, says “open banking” has extended these opportunities.
He says…
FROM FREE DATE CHANGES to airline industry-first comprehensive travel insurance, Emirates is making adjustments to give customers greater flexibility and more choice – and bring greater confidence to passengers choosing the airline through this…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
IMAGINE A WORLD where every video placed on YouTube could be hyper-personalised … Imagine a company that can…
AN INTERNATIONAL research team lead by Australia’s Monash University has built the first high-performance, commercially-sized tandem solar cell – and…
MACQUARIE Technology Group Limited (ASX: MAQ) intends to build an engineering and technology campus co-located within a ~200MW data centre precinct…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
THERE ARE ENORMOUS opportunities now opening for financial technology (fintech) companies.
Grant Augustin, the…
RMIT UNIVERSITY chancellor Peggy O’Neal AO has been appointed by the Federal Government as the new Australian business champion for Vietnam.
“It is…
AN INTERNATIONAL research team lead by Australia’s Monash University has built the first high-performance, commercially-sized tandem solar cell – and…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
WITH ALL THE CHANGES in geopolitics, the world’s attention is now heavily drawn…
By Ellen Boonstra, Business Acumen’s Asia correspondent >>
SOUTHEAST ASIA’s contemporary art scene has spent the past…
CLICK FRENZY’s new owners, Gabby and Hezi Leibovich, have officially brought the popular Australian…
AS CLUMSY and debilitating as Facebook’s news feed ban has been – for thousands of businesses and community…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
IN AN AGE of difficult decision making, how can businesses develop strategy?
Natasha Mandie, founder and…
By Jeff Purser >>
SOME OF THE LEAST persuasive people I have ever met have also been some of the smartest. That sounds…
MASTER BULDERS Australia has backed the Hands Off Our Fuel campaign and members are urging policy makers to “leave this…
JEFF PURSER, communications strategist, writer and producer of Australian feature films Fat Pizza and Cedar Boys,…
“FROM TODAY, it gets harder for Australia to build the 1.2 million homes governments have committed too.”
That is the…
AUSTRALIAN-BUILT generative AI software is being trialled by iconic American confectionery company Tootsie Roll. The reason? This manufacturing…
FROM FREE DATE CHANGES to airline industry-first comprehensive travel insurance, Emirates is making adjustments to give customers greater flexibility and more choice – and bring greater confidence to passengers choosing…
THE ULTRA-RARE ‘Yellah’ HSV GTSR W1 Maloo ute – build number 001 of just four secretly produced – sold last weekend for $1.2 million, winning the title of the highest-priced Holden in history.
A…
NEW FIGURES from the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman reveal a 50 percent jump in requests for help from distressed business…
MASTER BUILDERS Australia’s has welcomed the announcement, by the Fair Work Commission, that it has appointed Michael Crosby as the new CFMEU…
For many, the arduous task of donning compression stockings can be frustrating. This is especially true if the wearer is living independently,…
MONASH UNIVERSITY has launched the Monash Ventures Pre-Seed Fund, a $15 million initiative developed in partnership with Breakthrough Victoria to…
THE Queensland Government and resources industry leaders are meeting in Brisbane today to develop innovative ways to rebuild explorer confidence in Queensland and to ensure the state can meet…
REDFERN’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage will be at the heart of plans to upgrade three parks in one of Sydney’s most important growing communities.
More than 4,500…
THE Australian Workers’ Union, Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, Electrical Trades Union and Maritime Union of Australia have issued a joint statement welcoming the South Australian and…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
IMAGINE A WORLD where every video placed on YouTube could be hyper-personalised … Imagine a company that can…
THE FORD Dealer Network has reaffirmed its commitment to Australian basketball with Basketball Australia confirming an extension to its major…
MORE INDIGENOUS law graduates will be able to access the support they need to make the transition to legal practice…
By Ellen Boonstra, Business Acumen’s Asia correspondent >>
FOR MORE THAN SEVEN decades, World Press Photo has defined a global standard for…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
GETTING AHEAD in the corporate world has its challenges for women.
New data from…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
THE ALBANESE LABOR GOVERNMENT's Federal Budget changes mean that it’s the first time in a…
AS AUSTRALIANS grapple with current fuel price hikes and supply challenges, a new Rabobank report has highlighted the key role the nation’s canola…
By Leon Gettler, Talking Business >>
A LOT OF THE FOCUS of the Federal Budget has been on fixing intergenerational equity problems.
But Toby Ellis,…
ANZ BANK’s board will face the bank’s first shareholder resolutions on financing deforestation at its annual meeting in Sydney on Thursday.
The resolutions – facilitated by the Australian…
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