The Conversation

While all workers benefit from the 9% superannuation guarantee, those on middle incomes benefit significantly less than lower and upper incomes.

Australian governments should be targeting the innovation capability of the creative industries to strengthen the Australian manufacturing industry.

If the recent Cambridge Analytica data scandal has taught us anything, it’s that the ethical cultures of our largest tech firms need tougher scrutiny.

Shirley Jackson, University of Melbourne

While there is little consensus about the “future of work”, one thing is certain – young p…

By Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology and Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania

Coles is aiming to have private label pr…

By Louise Grimmer, University of Tasmania and Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology

If you think your local supermarket is s…

By Kathryn Backholer, Deakin University

Imagine a world where smart pantries sense when you are running out of your favourite food and or…

Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide

For the past 20 years, Australia has attempted to stake its claim in the lucrative commercial sp…

We intuitively know that a “happy worker is a good worker.” But what about their managers?

In a move that shows Australia is getting tough on competition law, criminal charges have been laid against ANZ, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, as well as six of their senior executives, over alleged “cartel-like” behaviour.

Businesses are weighing up the costs of queuing and using innovative ways to do away with queues, or at least make the perceptions of waiting less painful.

By Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology

Online retail giant Amazon’s decision to block Australian shoppers from its US we…