Opinion

Two court battles involving government agencies competing with private operators expose anomalies.

The shale-gas boom in the US has slashed power prices and a new report explores the next energy game-changers.

Improving the effectiveness of Australia’s federation is a widely shared goal but there has been little progress, unless you count an ever-expanding bureaucracy.

An insider’s view on China, that it is not always what it seems, challenges Western thinking.

Canberra has ‘plagiarised’ a successful Queensland development approach.

There are no two companies that train alike.

Research has consistently shown that people who are intrinsically motivated are more satisfied in their work, have greater commitment to tasks and have lower levels of absenteeism.

One of my favourite sayings in business is that everyone has two jobs – the one you do and improving the one you do.

Comrade Colin has a pleasing sound to it, but it is unlikely that the Western Australian Premier, Colin Barnett, really has developed communist tendencies despite his curious threat to stage a rare

Colin Barnett certainly does not want blame for the Commonwealth’s share (of energy price rises) lumped on to him as well in a pre-election year.

It is worth borrowing from demographers to help categorise the three distinct groups which clash over the resources boom.

WA’s minerals industry faces profound change as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto opt for ‘bulks’.

The state government has won high praise for its planning reforms but the industry, and Labor, say it needs to do better.

The distribution of Australia’s population has changed markedly over the past 55 years, driven by interstate and international migration.

A £625,000 Hackett asset sale helped fund landmark additions to the University of WA.

Engagement is such a buzz term in human resources circles.

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Many managers proudly declare they have an ‘open-door policy’ that allows any employee to speak with them at any time of the day.

If you are serious about driving a company out of business there is a guaranteed way to succeed; charge more for your services than competitors.

Politics wins over practicality every time when industry puts its hand out for government support.

How long before Australia’s growing number of industrial disputes leads investors to take their business elsewhere?

The backers of the iron ore facility at Cape Preston have some tough decisions ahead.

The labour movement’s increasingly strident campaign against privatisation obscures valid questions.

TREASURY uses relationships from the latest available input-output tables for 2007-08.

The mining and mining services industries contribute 20 per cent of GDP and that figure is likely to rise.

Is more money really the answer to Australia’s education problems?

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Finding good recruits is always a challenge.

If the Queensland election was not an event unique to that State, as seems likely, then it might be time for investors to adjust their portfolios ahead of the inevitable change in Canberra, such as

The political landscape has changed significantly since the last COAG meeting.

Call that a heatwave? I’ll show you a heatwave.

Troy Buswell’s kidding if he thinks stamp duty has nothing to do with people’s reluctance to buy a house.