Posted August 2009 To fix or not to fix? That is the question. Do you punt on interest rates going up and fix in your rate now or bet the house on rates staying low and stick with a variable loan? While I am not in the position to give advice, I have put together…
Well quite a lot actually but more on that later. As some of you may already have read, Australia just recorded its lowest annual inflation rate since the end of 1999 and it’s the first time it’s gone below 2% annually since 2007. By way of background, inflation is measured by the Consumer Price Index,…
Recession? Moi? You wouldn’t usually think of Poland and South Korea when you think of classic Aussie bed fellow but think again. The recent release of the national figures that measure these sorts of thing has our economy growing by a faster-than-expected 0.4 per cent in the first three months of this year. This pulls…
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This first appeared on the opinion pages of The Melbourne Age Winston Churchill may be well known for the battles he waged in the name of the Allied Forces but it is the lesser known war he declared on the desecration of the English language that still rages. At the height of the Battle of…
On behalf of Captain I gotta Zip and The Sheriff of Nothingham hill I’d like to welcome all Australian’s to Australian Democracy for dummies. A national vote fest that’s doing things with democracy ancient Greek philosophers could only dream off. No this is not about News Limited waving its manhood with menace at the Ruddster,…
This first appeared on the opinion pages of The Melbourne Age EVERY now and then the living are lucky enough to find themselves at the dawn of an epoch. This feeling was palpable in the late 1990s as our best and brightest burned off down the then-potholed information superhighway. Despite this, a web-based company called…
Andrew Pegler was editor of Monash Business Review for three years, which published original research, including fully refereed academic articles, plus case studies, ideas, trends, special events and more. The journal covered business in a broad sense for an equally broad audience ranging from managers to graduates, and academics in management, corporate strategy, finance and…
This article first appeared in the Monash University Business Review The well trodden road for SMEs is littered by the failures and short coming of many who tried and enlightened by the success of those that made it. One thing they all had in common was a set of challenges that could undo the best…
This article first appeared on http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/ Apparently Kevin Rudd is worth $60 million. Apparently Malcolm Turnball is worth $120 million. Apparently this is an issue because apparently the drought has not killed off all the tall poppies. Yes folks the ever-present egalitarian Aussie scythe is out and swinging’ and it has our top two pollies…
