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In 12 short months, Australia has been put into an inflation (or wage-price) spiral. What is it? What is causing it? And how do we stop being spun off track? An inflation spiral is the cause-and-effect relationship where rising wages increases the price of goods and services, increasing both the cost base and potentially the […]

Credibility and good ethics are essential to keeping a business sustainable. Businesses and investors are outdoing each other to puff up their green credentials, after all, impressing customers, staff and peers with how green we can be is according to many surveys a key success factor. ASIC is now finally cracking down on so called […]

For a number of years now, I have held a firm belief that businesses and our society evolves at the pace of the Lowest Common Denominator. This applies to most things around us but is easiest to explain with this example. Think of driving down a two-lane freeway with a 100 km/h speed limit (a […]

Where is everybody? Having enjoyed over 30 years of consecutive growth and improvements in living standards, we’ve become accustomed to an increasingly cushy lifestyle. There’s now a push for a 4-day working week whilst keeping weekly earnings unchanged, which is likely to gain widespread populistic support. But how is the extra 20% of work going […]

For the first time, this article has in part been written by “something”, rather than someone. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is well and truly here, and many jobs can already be done without people. First, let’s hear from Chat GPT (I shortened the full responses), then I’ll take the controls again. Let us know what you […]

One of the key assets of a business or institution is the information they collect. So it should be no surprise that data hacking has now escalated to the point where it is a potentially devasting threat to business and individuals. 32% of Australians have had their data exposed in the past year, compared to […]