Town Hall was not an isolated event, rather the end point of a longer process to redefine dissent as risk, writes Andrew Brown. Power does not begin with force. It begins with permission. By the time the baton is raised, the public has already been prepared to accept it. What
There’s an old joke that marriage is picking the person you’ll spend forever asking, ‘Any thoughts on dinner?’
What to eat is just one of an estimated 35,000 decisions humans make each day.
To make decisions more efficiently humans use heuristics or mental shortcuts. Heuristics are used to make inconsequential decisions but also to reduce the cognitive ...
While Palantir is busy poking its nose in everyone’s business, it doesn’t want us looking into its own, having failed to lodge audited financial statements. Stephanie Tran reports. Last week, data surveillance firm Palantir secured a $7.6m contract with the Department of Defence’s Cyber Warfare Division, according to reporting by
Thanks to an unprecedented lift in public funding in the 2020s, an extra 55,000 new, good quality homes around Australia will be available to people on the lowest incomes by 2030. That’s almost triple the increase of 20,000 homes in the previous decade.
Residents in these modern “social” homes will generally pay only 25 per cent of their income in ...
Developer Stockland said this week that it has achieved net zero scope 1 and 2 emissions across all its operations, thanks to a large scale deployment of onsite rooftop solar across more than 50 buildings and retiring a small amount of nature based carbon offsets.
According to chief executive Tarun Gupta, what was previously “idle roof space” now ...
The Albanese Government has obligations under law to make a legal determination about Israel’s genocide. Where is it? asks Kellie Tranter. In the aftermath of President Herzog’s visit to Australia, which arguably undermined social cohesion, it is worth reminding the Australian government that Australia’s obligation to prevent genocide and duty
Capital gains tax is once again the subject of parliamentary debate, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers declining to rule out options for reform.
Along with negative gearing, the capital gains tax discount has long been suggested as one cause of Australia’s housing affordability crisis.
The tax applies to the capital gain when an asset is held for more than a ...
The Ozempic moment for SaaS (software as a service) refers to a pivotal disruption scenario where a transformative technology threatens to erode or fundamentally reshape an established market leader’s core business model, much like the hype around Ozempic (and other GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy) did to ResMed (ASX:RMD) around 2023.
Back in mid-2023, as ...
I promise this will be my last article for a while on Division 296 tax (the proposed new tax for people with more than $3 million in super). There are other interesting things to talk about when it comes to super. But with so much commentary about the need to ‘do something’ to respond to the new tax, I wanted to throw my thoughts into the mix.
A ...
We have had our fair share of bubble talk in the AI space over the last six months. So many people argue that AI stocks are in a bubble and that bubble may lead to a crash soon. But while we can debate the former, I think the latter is the wrong conclusion.
It is extremely hard, if not impossible, to identify a bubble in real time. Still, even if you ...
In the midst of the public market run-up of the last three years, private equity has advanced, but not to the extent that investors have previously been accustomed. Off the highs of 2021, slow dealmaking has limited ‘exits’ from portfolios, fostering an attractive opportunity for liquidity-oriented strategies, such as general partner-led ‘continuation’ ...
Retail investing has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, with individual investors now accounting for a growing share of market activity. R. David McLean, Jeffrey Pontiff, and Christopher Reilly, authors of the study “Taking Sides on Return Predictability,” published in the November 2025 issue of The Journal of Financial Economics, examined how ...
Town Hall was not an isolated event, rather the end point of a longer process to redefine dissent as risk, writes Andrew Brown. Power does not begin with force. It begins with permission. By the time the baton is raised, the public has already been prepared to accept it. What
There’s an old joke that marriage is picking the person you’ll spend forever asking, ‘Any thoughts on dinner?’
What to eat is just one of an estimated 35,000 decisions humans make each day.
To make decisions more efficiently humans use heuristics or mental shortcuts. Heuristics are used to make inconsequential decisions but also to reduce the cognitive ...
While Palantir is busy poking its nose in everyone’s business, it doesn’t want us looking into its own, having failed to lodge audited financial statements. Stephanie Tran reports. Last week, data surveillance firm Palantir secured a $7.6m contract with the Department of Defence’s Cyber Warfare Division, according to reporting by
Thanks to an unprecedented lift in public funding in the 2020s, an extra 55,000 new, good quality homes around Australia will be available to people on the lowest incomes by 2030. That’s almost triple the increase of 20,000 homes in the previous decade.
Residents in these modern “social” homes will generally pay only 25 per cent of their income in ...
Developer Stockland said this week that it has achieved net zero scope 1 and 2 emissions across all its operations, thanks to a large scale deployment of onsite rooftop solar across more than 50 buildings and retiring a small amount of nature based carbon offsets.
According to chief executive Tarun Gupta, what was previously “idle roof space” now ...
The Albanese Government has obligations under law to make a legal determination about Israel’s genocide. Where is it? asks Kellie Tranter. In the aftermath of President Herzog’s visit to Australia, which arguably undermined social cohesion, it is worth reminding the Australian government that Australia’s obligation to prevent genocide and duty
Capital gains tax is once again the subject of parliamentary debate, with Treasurer Jim Chalmers declining to rule out options for reform.
Along with negative gearing, the capital gains tax discount has long been suggested as one cause of Australia’s housing affordability crisis.
The tax applies to the capital gain when an asset is held for more than a ...
The Ozempic moment for SaaS (software as a service) refers to a pivotal disruption scenario where a transformative technology threatens to erode or fundamentally reshape an established market leader’s core business model, much like the hype around Ozempic (and other GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy) did to ResMed (ASX:RMD) around 2023.
Back in mid-2023, as ...
I promise this will be my last article for a while on Division 296 tax (the proposed new tax for people with more than $3 million in super). There are other interesting things to talk about when it comes to super. But with so much commentary about the need to ‘do something’ to respond to the new tax, I wanted to throw my thoughts into the mix.
A ...
We have had our fair share of bubble talk in the AI space over the last six months. So many people argue that AI stocks are in a bubble and that bubble may lead to a crash soon. But while we can debate the former, I think the latter is the wrong conclusion.
It is extremely hard, if not impossible, to identify a bubble in real time. Still, even if you ...
In the midst of the public market run-up of the last three years, private equity has advanced, but not to the extent that investors have previously been accustomed. Off the highs of 2021, slow dealmaking has limited ‘exits’ from portfolios, fostering an attractive opportunity for liquidity-oriented strategies, such as general partner-led ‘continuation’ ...
Retail investing has undergone a seismic shift in recent years, with individual investors now accounting for a growing share of market activity. R. David McLean, Jeffrey Pontiff, and Christopher Reilly, authors of the study “Taking Sides on Return Predictability,” published in the November 2025 issue of The Journal of Financial Economics, examined how ...
