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In 2015, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull welcomed us to the “ideas boom” and launched a National Innovation and Science Agenda. But in 2018, we're still only part way there.

The number of women in the manual trades in Australia has barely budged in the last 20 years.

Australia’s Foreign Investment Review Board reported this week that foreign residential real estate approvals dropped significantly in the 2016-17 period.

Food sharing is experiencing a renaissance in cities around the world.

The government is reportedly considering a new tax on the digital economy. While no details of the tax are available yet, the digital services tax recently proposed by the European Commission may give us an idea what the tax might look like.

Employees stealing from their workplaces has been proven to be harmful to our economy. So why do workers steal?

Pauline Hanson, who commands three Senate votes and thus a veto, has suddenly withdrawn her support for the Coalition's plan to cut the company tax rate for big businesses.

What would it take for you to put the same level of trust in AI as you would extend to a human? To chat with your child? To drive your taxi? To read your brain scan? To scan your face at a concert, at work, or in a supermarket?

The black economy is more common than we think – how many of us have paid tradies, gardeners or cleaners cash without the exchange of relevant paperwork? For many people this is actually an important source of income.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten has launched a tax bidding war, promising to top the government’s tax relief for lower and middle income earners.

As with many previous budgets, matters relating to energy and climate change were relegated to little more than a footnote in Treasurer Scott Morrison’s 2018 budget speech.

With income tax cuts and a return to surplus earlier than expected, Treasurer Scott Morrison has certainly delivered a budget full of pre-election sweeteners.