With graft and corruption in Australia’s offshore detention regime exposed by whistleblowers, questions need to be raised about whose character is being tested: refugees’ or the government’s? Janet Pelly asks. The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes featured two whistleblowers who shared experiences of graft and corruption in Australia’s offshore
Have you heard about China’s six zeros policy for building materials?
Probably not. We heard about it through Shane Hodgkins of Matrak, one of our speakers at Circular Disruption. We Googled it, with thin pickings. Even in the age of AI.
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It’s a case of what have we created here?
When you’re deep in the weeds of designing an event, it’s sometimes impossible to rise above those pesky weeds, low carbon or not, and see the talent and innovation that’s about to wow your audience. But wow us all it did: the speakers, the audience with their engagement and tough questions, and the ...
Australian fund managers who continue to invest in companies that supply weapons to Israel are likely to be in direct breach of international law and risk prosecution. Stephanie Tran with the story. Leading international law experts say Australia’s sovereign wealth fund could be complicit in genocide in Gaza if they
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
At face value, the Solar Sharer announcement – three hours of free power every day for everyone that wants it – is a fantastic policy initiative. At last, everyone can get a slice of the action and the whole world (except perhaps some National and ...
The US Navy and Australia need new diesel-electric submarines. Just don’t try to tell the conflicted American admirals who have been guiding our AUKUS disaster, reports Michael Pascoe. Australia’s deal with France to acquire diesel-electric submarines was (in)famously scuppered by Scott Morrison in June 2021 and replaced by the present
Lachlan Murdoch won the battle to follow in his father’s footsteps and obtain control over News Corp, a media conglomerate in decline. Is he up for it? David Tyler asks. Imagine inheriting a media empire after spending $1.1B per sibling just to buy them off. Then discovering you’ve just spent billions
Michael Burry, the investor who famously predicted the subprime mortgage bubble bursting in 2008 and was a central character in Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short, recently revealed that he is shorting more than a billion dollars of shares in tech high-fliers Palantir and Nvidia. Both stocks tanked on the news, though they have recovered some since, and ...
Lavish spending, a board-room brawl, bullying allegations and a court stoush, a suite of EGMs and doctored documents have the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in crisis. Michael West investigates. On June 26, directors and top executives from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) gathered for dinner at the
For a long time, I’ve viewed Warren Buffett as a flawed man. A supreme investor, but a flawed man.
It was a view primarily based on Alice Schroeder’s biography of Buffett, The Snowball, in 2008. It painted a picture of Buffett’s private life that wasn’t pretty. That his investing obsession and work ethic took a toll on family life. That he was very ...
My focus today is the housing market — I fear we’re sailing into dangerous waters.
Let’s start with interest rates. The Reserve Bank has spoken and, as widely predicted, rates are on hold — at least for now. But the big question is: where to next? I’m one of 32 so-called experts asked each month to forecast what the Reserve Bank will do at its upcoming ...
Is the U.S. stock market in a bubble? I doubt we’re there yet, but one sign of speculative froth is the recent success of retail investors. On average, retail investors exhibit anti-skill in their stock selection decisions, meaning that their holdings underperform the market. So when retail investors are winning, that tells you that market conditions ...
With graft and corruption in Australia’s offshore detention regime exposed by whistleblowers, questions need to be raised about whose character is being tested: refugees’ or the government’s? Janet Pelly asks. The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes featured two whistleblowers who shared experiences of graft and corruption in Australia’s offshore
Have you heard about China’s six zeros policy for building materials?
Probably not. We heard about it through Shane Hodgkins of Matrak, one of our speakers at Circular Disruption. We Googled it, with thin pickings. Even in the age of AI.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Coming out of the all-consuming Circular Disruption Forum we ...
It’s a case of what have we created here?
When you’re deep in the weeds of designing an event, it’s sometimes impossible to rise above those pesky weeds, low carbon or not, and see the talent and innovation that’s about to wow your audience. But wow us all it did: the speakers, the audience with their engagement and tough questions, and the ...
Australian fund managers who continue to invest in companies that supply weapons to Israel are likely to be in direct breach of international law and risk prosecution. Stephanie Tran with the story. Leading international law experts say Australia’s sovereign wealth fund could be complicit in genocide in Gaza if they
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
At face value, the Solar Sharer announcement – three hours of free power every day for everyone that wants it – is a fantastic policy initiative. At last, everyone can get a slice of the action and the whole world (except perhaps some National and ...
The US Navy and Australia need new diesel-electric submarines. Just don’t try to tell the conflicted American admirals who have been guiding our AUKUS disaster, reports Michael Pascoe. Australia’s deal with France to acquire diesel-electric submarines was (in)famously scuppered by Scott Morrison in June 2021 and replaced by the present
Lachlan Murdoch won the battle to follow in his father’s footsteps and obtain control over News Corp, a media conglomerate in decline. Is he up for it? David Tyler asks. Imagine inheriting a media empire after spending $1.1B per sibling just to buy them off. Then discovering you’ve just spent billions
Michael Burry, the investor who famously predicted the subprime mortgage bubble bursting in 2008 and was a central character in Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short, recently revealed that he is shorting more than a billion dollars of shares in tech high-fliers Palantir and Nvidia. Both stocks tanked on the news, though they have recovered some since, and ...
Lavish spending, a board-room brawl, bullying allegations and a court stoush, a suite of EGMs and doctored documents have the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in crisis. Michael West investigates. On June 26, directors and top executives from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) gathered for dinner at the
For a long time, I’ve viewed Warren Buffett as a flawed man. A supreme investor, but a flawed man.
It was a view primarily based on Alice Schroeder’s biography of Buffett, The Snowball, in 2008. It painted a picture of Buffett’s private life that wasn’t pretty. That his investing obsession and work ethic took a toll on family life. That he was very ...
My focus today is the housing market — I fear we’re sailing into dangerous waters.
Let’s start with interest rates. The Reserve Bank has spoken and, as widely predicted, rates are on hold — at least for now. But the big question is: where to next? I’m one of 32 so-called experts asked each month to forecast what the Reserve Bank will do at its upcoming ...
Is the U.S. stock market in a bubble? I doubt we’re there yet, but one sign of speculative froth is the recent success of retail investors. On average, retail investors exhibit anti-skill in their stock selection decisions, meaning that their holdings underperform the market. So when retail investors are winning, that tells you that market conditions ...
