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Cash and contentment: the truth
According to the new gurus of happiness, most of us are mugs. We spend our lives pursuing money, wealth and the good life for ourselves and our...
Economic mentoring in Asia pays off big time
BHP Billiton's announcement this week of a record $8.66 billion profit is cause for celebration and reflection. Millions of Australians own shares...
Bracks' Third Wave hard one to catch
As a public relations exercise, the Bracks Government's "A Third Wave of National Reform" was a roaring success. It received national coverage...
Let's distinguish between dumping and differential pricing.
Zone Severn's letter (Business Age 19/8) in response to my article on dumping confuses dumping with differential pricing. Companies set different...
Sheltering business saps competition
Many people confuse dumping with straightforward cost advantages. Writing in these pages last week, Martin Feil showed himself to be among this...
Car industry at the crossroads
The Australian car industry is at a crossroads similar to the one it faced 20 years ago when the tariff wall began to fall. The test will be...
Limiting choice is not fair dinkum
The Fair Dinkum Food Campaign is winding its way to Canberra. It is a farmer protest about cheap imports undercutting domestically grown food. The...
Doing business in Melbourne or Sydney? It's not quite the done deal that it seems to be
When comparing Melbourne to Sydney, it's difficult not to appear simplistic. After all, competitive jibes between "brassy" Sydney and "elegant"...
Regulated to a standstill
For more than two years cries of an infrastructure crisis has rung loudly from the halls of industry. Governments -- state and federal -- have...
Let's capitalise on our nuclear assets
It's an irony that Australia, possessing a large proportion of the world's reserves of uranium and making major technical contributions to the...