The youth of each successive generation cringe when their elders yearn for ‘the good old days’, but there’s a real danger technology is robbing us of some vital skills.
Wide-open spaces, spectacular coastal cliffs and even a spot of golf on the Nullarbor are some of the highlights from the drive across Australia back to Perth.
In this week's Podcast, Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer join James Lush to discuss urban infill, the state's budget, the Premier's criticism of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, the state's first schools PPP and our updated listing of WA's biggest exporters.
Karl Simich and Mark Bennett are justifiably annoyed at having the companies they run added to an investment blacklist; but behind their frustration there is an enormously serious issue for every member of a superannuation fund – and that, in theory, is every working and recently retired Australian.
How would you go at your job if you had to pay someone else's mortgage off before you received any income? Would that be an incentive to turn up to work?
In this week's Podcast, Catie Low, Tim Treadgold and James Lush discuss property prices, the iron ore slump, corporate finance challenges and the Barrack Square restaurant lease.
If Western Australia’s small iron ore miners thought all the bad news about falling prices was in the open, they got a shock this week when the two biggest producers, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, launched a war of words, complete with threats of fresh expansion programs.
Last week’s increase in reported sales was short-lived, with the AFL grand final, Royal Show and long weekend all conspiring to pull the week’s reported sales figure down to its lowest level since the end of July.
Sydney is an amazing city with lots of iconic attractions, so it’s hard to summarise a week there in short-form, but I’ll try – I love visiting and experiencing what it has to offer, but have no great desire to live there.
In this week's Podcast, Mark Pownall, Dan Wilkie and James Lush discuss the state government selloff, BGC, the budget surplus, and a wrap-up of the retail property sector.
It is always hard to pin a stock market correction on a single event, but when investors look back at what’s happened over the past few weeks as the stock market has dropped by 5 per cent (half way to an official correction) they will focus on the float of a single company, the giant Chinese trading house, Alibaba.
Monitoring the stock of property for sale is an important health check on the market and, coupled with activity, gives us a sense whether it is a buyer’s or seller’s market.
It is difficult not to sympathise, if not agree, with Pope Francis I’s claim that the spate of conflicts around the globe today effectively form a “piecemeal” World War III.
The share market's gains for 2014 have been wiped out, the value of the country's biggest export is at a five-year low and the Aussie dollar has slipped below 89 US cents - all thanks to China.
