
The interim report by the Royal Commission established after the Bondi massacre recommends changes, with the broader issues of ‘social cohesion’ yet to be addressed. Stephanie Tran and Kim Wingerei report. The interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has been released. The report contains 14

By 1976 Prime Minister Harold Wilson was exhausted, drinking excessively and demoralised. Wilson’s state didn’t substantially differ from his electorate. The UK was a mess.
In the two years of his most recent run as Prime Minister, Wilson had been kicking the can down the road. With a razor thin majority of three seats in the House of Commons he ...

The charity of estranged Melbourne power couple Luke and Cate Sayers — which in 2023 had more than a dozen staff earning average salaries of over $120,000 — reports it now has none.
The post Sayers’ charity goes from over a dozen staff on $120,000-plus, to none appeared first on The Klaxon.

The much-heralded ‘News Media Bargaining Code’ only served to line the shallow pockets of mainstream media. The revised scheme is designed to change that, but will it? Kim Wingerei asks. When introduced in 2021, the News Media Bargaining Code was meant to help Australian media companies “level the power imbalance”

We have only a short time left to the end of the financial year to get our SMSF or other super funds in order and ensure we are making the most of the strategies available to us. Here is a checklist of the most important issues that you should address with your advisers before the year-end.
Get this wrong and your SMSF could lose tax exemptions, ...

For those of you who don’t know me, I retired 2 months ago from being a full-time academic researching retirement planning for nearly 20 years. Now I am focusing on implementing my findings: for myself, for individuals and for organisations.
As I promised when I retired, I am providing a month by month account of my findings from the other side. As ...

Australia’s sovereignty is routinely violated by Israel. Our institutions utterly subject to foreign interference. Andrew Brown presents the devastating case for a royal commission into Zionist influence in Australia. Yesterday we laid out the machinery of the most serious foreign influence operation ever conducted on Australian soil: the ...

Markets seem bulletproof. World equities have pushed to all-time highs in the face of unresolved tensions in the Middle East and associated dangers for the world economy. ‘Buy-the-dip’ is alive and well. And ‘staying the course’ in the face of evident threats has once again proven sound advice.
What if markets failed to deliver over an extended period ...

… but we seem to appreciate it more.
Let me start by giving you some quick conclusions from studies on retirement spending and satisfaction. Then I’ll explain where those findings come from. Do the relevant studies constitute good scientific, or at least economic, proof? No, but it all seems very reasonable. That’s why I’m writing this.
I’ll explain ...

John Burr Williams’ family could trace their lineage in North America back to the first English settlements. He made a significant contribution to the investing world but he was not the only family member who left a mark.
One relative founded Princeton University and had a son who became Vice President of the United States. He was the first of two ...

For a quarter of a century, the discretionary trust has been the automatic structure for sophisticated property investors in Australia. Accountants defaulted to it. Investors defaulted to it. In our brokerage, we’ve written deal after deal into trust structures without the question of whether it was the right vehicle really coming up.
In the last few ...

Stock volatility is at unprecedented levels. Whether it is Cochlear’s April trading update, the 2026 Hormuz crisis, Liberation Day in 2025, or a company reporting season, the swings are sharper and less anchored to fundamentals than at any previous point in market history. The market structure has permanently changed in how equity prices are set, and ...

The interim report by the Royal Commission established after the Bondi massacre recommends changes, with the broader issues of ‘social cohesion’ yet to be addressed. Stephanie Tran and Kim Wingerei report. The interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has been released. The report contains 14

By 1976 Prime Minister Harold Wilson was exhausted, drinking excessively and demoralised. Wilson’s state didn’t substantially differ from his electorate. The UK was a mess.
In the two years of his most recent run as Prime Minister, Wilson had been kicking the can down the road. With a razor thin majority of three seats in the House of Commons he ...

The charity of estranged Melbourne power couple Luke and Cate Sayers — which in 2023 had more than a dozen staff earning average salaries of over $120,000 — reports it now has none.
The post Sayers’ charity goes from over a dozen staff on $120,000-plus, to none appeared first on The Klaxon.

The much-heralded ‘News Media Bargaining Code’ only served to line the shallow pockets of mainstream media. The revised scheme is designed to change that, but will it? Kim Wingerei asks. When introduced in 2021, the News Media Bargaining Code was meant to help Australian media companies “level the power imbalance”

We have only a short time left to the end of the financial year to get our SMSF or other super funds in order and ensure we are making the most of the strategies available to us. Here is a checklist of the most important issues that you should address with your advisers before the year-end.
Get this wrong and your SMSF could lose tax exemptions, ...

For those of you who don’t know me, I retired 2 months ago from being a full-time academic researching retirement planning for nearly 20 years. Now I am focusing on implementing my findings: for myself, for individuals and for organisations.
As I promised when I retired, I am providing a month by month account of my findings from the other side. As ...

Australia’s sovereignty is routinely violated by Israel. Our institutions utterly subject to foreign interference. Andrew Brown presents the devastating case for a royal commission into Zionist influence in Australia. Yesterday we laid out the machinery of the most serious foreign influence operation ever conducted on Australian soil: the ...

Markets seem bulletproof. World equities have pushed to all-time highs in the face of unresolved tensions in the Middle East and associated dangers for the world economy. ‘Buy-the-dip’ is alive and well. And ‘staying the course’ in the face of evident threats has once again proven sound advice.
What if markets failed to deliver over an extended period ...

… but we seem to appreciate it more.
Let me start by giving you some quick conclusions from studies on retirement spending and satisfaction. Then I’ll explain where those findings come from. Do the relevant studies constitute good scientific, or at least economic, proof? No, but it all seems very reasonable. That’s why I’m writing this.
I’ll explain ...

John Burr Williams’ family could trace their lineage in North America back to the first English settlements. He made a significant contribution to the investing world but he was not the only family member who left a mark.
One relative founded Princeton University and had a son who became Vice President of the United States. He was the first of two ...

For a quarter of a century, the discretionary trust has been the automatic structure for sophisticated property investors in Australia. Accountants defaulted to it. Investors defaulted to it. In our brokerage, we’ve written deal after deal into trust structures without the question of whether it was the right vehicle really coming up.
In the last few ...

Stock volatility is at unprecedented levels. Whether it is Cochlear’s April trading update, the 2026 Hormuz crisis, Liberation Day in 2025, or a company reporting season, the swings are sharper and less anchored to fundamentals than at any previous point in market history. The market structure has permanently changed in how equity prices are set, and ...
