Last year, Havana Tan steered her new Melbourne restaurant through multiple lockdowns, but she says this summer's Omicron wave has been the most testing time yet for her business. "I would say it is the actual hardest period we have...
Economically, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed from being a government-mandated recession to a natural disaster, and should be treated as that. Government-imposed lockdowns in 2020 and 2021 produced three quarterly GDP contractions out of six over 18 months, including the...
U.S. home builders started construction on homes at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of roughly 1.7 million in December, representing a 1% increase from the previous month, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Compared with December 2020, housing starts were...
The City of Nedlands is on alert this afternoon as fire crews attempt to control a blaze in Karrakatta that is now a possible threat to lives and homes. According to the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, the fire...
Yet no matter what party might be going on or which company had the best off-site augmented reality installation, the inner sanctum of Davos has always been the Congress Centre, a convention space that serves as the gathering’s nexus...
More than 500,000 Australian workers will be $300 worse off if they are forced to self-isolate after the Morrison government slashed a crucial support payment. Economists and anti-poverty advocates said the cut to Australia’s social safety net would encourage more...
Homer’s Athens was bedevilled by the plague, making it the perfect inspiration for a modern remake of the classic yarn. In episode two of the epic, Odysseus tries to get home from Troy, and David Zampatti goes along for...
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has released a list of demands in a bid to protect employees amid the fast-moving Omicron variant, including access to free rapid tests and N95 masks for all employees. The union wants businesses to...
There are two broad sets of domestic policies, policies peculiar to China, that help explain the slowing of its economic growth. Last year’s stringent “red lines” restricting leverage in its property sector has resulted in a spate of defaults by...
The pandemic may have pushed companies to transform quickly, but many well-intentioned strategies have been lost in the rush. Turns out most companies are great at writing strategies but terrible at delivering on them. Up to 90 per cent of strategies...
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