Opinion

The media’s sanctimonious approach by some media to the phone-tapping allegations is a bit rich.

A move by the Indonesian government to boost activity in its nickel mining sector could have a positive spin-off for Australian miners.

The Australian dollar will stay too high for too long, prolonging the current weakness and impeding economic recovery.

It’s too early to pass judgement in the case of Forge Group’s troubles, but the signs aren’t encouraging.

Understanding your clients’ motivation is the best way to get them buying … from you.

Of all the possible measures of a business’s success, profit remains at the top of the list.

The state government needs to tackle real regulatory minefields, like liquor licensing, and not just abolish redundant laws.

It has been so long coming, and there have been so many false starts, that most people have missed what looks like the long-awaited fall in the value of the Australian dollar to less than US90 cents, and perhaps below US80 cents.

Universities have a great track record in Asia; we would do well to learn from them.

Having had its influence eroded at this year’s state poll and now their dynamic leader, Brendon Grylls, the Nationals face a tough road to stay competitive.

The AEC needs to work harder to protect the right to a secret ballot we inherited from the efforts of Australian pioneers.

The public, and major banks, are disappointed with the service level, and service offering, of Australian icon Qantas.

The Western Australian resources boom of the past decade is well documented; not so widely recognised, however, has been the associated growth in civil infrastructure construction.

Many companies have become smart buyers, but some have become too smart.

One of the downsides of international investment is that people with a different worldview can start influencing the ways things are done in Australia.

A ‘creative’ approach to time management may not be in your employer’s best interests, or yours.

Forge Group’s current troubles cast its rapid expansion in a new light.

Rated as the world’s fourth biggest pool of contestable cash, Australia’s $1.4 trillion superannuation sector was eventually going to struggle to find viable investments for its members, though not many people expected it take a risk with a plunge into publishing.

The burgeoning middle classes of our Asian trading partners is good news for agricultural exports.

Despite WA’s outstanding economic and social growth of the past half-century, there has been no shortage of controversy to bring our premiers undone.

Clive Palmer and his troops need to get down to work if PUP is to be anything other than a party of protest.

Dealing with workplace bullying after the fact is evidence of organisational failure.

Taking responsibility for your product and service level will help your sales much more than blaming others and complaining about price.

Persistence is starting to pay off on the government’s quest for local council reform.

It might be playing with fire to own a pair of asbestos gloves these days, but Colin Barnett should borrow a pair before finalising a red-hot deal to sell the Kwinana Bulk Terminal to building mate

Sometimes it can be better to go as far as you can before using other people's money.

A slowing of capital works spending and a brake on public sector recruitment are among the premier’s measures for reining-in debt.

The ability to pay for the needs of our ageing population will be a test of the Abbott government, and all those after it.

Investing in the share market is an inexact science, and biotech stocks can add a further layer of complexity to the formula.

Cyclical and structural factors are playing out in declining workforce participation rates.

Should we tax as a mechanism to discourage market dominance?

It will probably take Gina Rinehart a few years to catch Bill Gates in the race to be the world’s richest person, but it is easy to see how she might overhaul the Microsoft founder’s swag of $75 billion.