Business & Law

People waving signs protesting government inaction in granting amnesty to Afghani refugees

If we're opening borders, why are thousands of refugees still awaiting entry?

16 Feb 2022

Why hasn’t Australia done more to ramp up its resettlement program, like Canada and the US?

Tables and chairs stacked and wrapped in plastic outdoors

Vital Signs: small businesses need help through shadow lockdowns

11 Feb 2022

For many small businesses the past month has been the most difficult period of the pandemic. Australia needs a better plan to help more survive.

Man with virtual reality VR goggle playing AR augmented reality game

Can you 'die' in real life if the metaverse bans you?

09 Feb 2022

Several things need to happen to ensure the metaverse is a free, decentralised creators’ economy, writes UNSW Business School’s Eric Lim.

Several protestors holding 'refugee freedom' signs at The Park Hotel in Swanston Street, Melbourne.

What can be done to make the living conditions of detained refugees more humane?

08 Feb 2022

Novak Djokovic’s stay at a detention hotel highlights how things should change, migration experts say.

Three Aboriginal women walking along a rabbit proof fence - a promotional poster for the film

Outlaw culture: Aboriginal women and the power of resistance

07 Feb 2022

From bushrangers to community matriarchs, Aboriginal women have found many ways to empower themselves and their people through acts of resistance – within and outside of the law.

A hand is poised to add the final piece to a set of blocks resembling a house

What’s wrong with Australian mortgages? They’re fixed for shareholders, not home owners

04 Feb 2022

There’s no reason why Australian lenders couldn’t offer 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, as they do in the US.

Shopper wearing protective face mask hoards toilet paper in supermarket

Five things to know about supply chains and COVID-19 stock shortages

01 Feb 2022

Stock shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic are about more than just panic buying or labour shortages in supply chains, says UNSW Business School's Professor Jack Cadeaux

Smoke hovers around an athletic starter's gun that has just been fired

Vital Signs: it’s too early for the RBA to pull the trigger on interest rates

28 Jan 2022

The case for the RBA increasing interest rates certainly exists. But it’s far less pressing than in the United States.

10 Minute Genius: Megan Davis on the power of Voice

25 Jan 2022

In 2017 on the lands of the Anangu, Cobble Cobble woman Megan Davis stepped out from the shadow of Uluru and delivered the Uluru Statement from the Heart for the very first time. It was the first time anyone would hear it, and it was a process that showed the power of First Nation Voices.

Vital Signs: disclosure please, we shouldn't be playing bingo with COVID statistics

21 Jan 2022

Governments should tell us everything they know about infections, hospitalisations and deaths. So why aren’t they?

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