Getting past Chinese regulations is tough for Australian companies
Digital Crew director Ophenia Liang talks to Peter Switzer on SkyBusiness on how to market in China.
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Broad ranging reforms to Australia’s competition regime have come into effect. Minter Ellison outlines the key amendments under the reform package that businesses should be aware of, such as changes to merger reviews and what that may mean for your approach.
Read MoreThe Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017 came into effect last month. Franchisors are exposed by the actions, or inactions, of their franchisee. FC Business Solutions provides a useful checklist to comply with the legislation’s amendment. For more go to http://bit.ly/1RKZe25 #kdkmedia #kdkbulletin
Read MoreACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie says the planned Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2017 must make the distinction between foreign donations to political parties and international philanthropy for charitable purposes, otherwise it will stop charities having a public voice.
Read MoreThe China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission have entered into an agreement to promote innovation in fintech. ASIC says the Information Sharing Co-operation Agreement further underlines the significance of the Australia-China trade and investment relationship – worth $155.2 billion to Australia in 2016. For more go to http://bit.ly/1RKZe25 #kdkmedia #kdkbulletin
Read MoreA new Grattan Institute report urges governments and regulators to do more to ensure customers get a good deal, especially where big firms have market power and competitors face high barriers to entry. The report shows up to half the total profits in the supermarket sector (dominated by Coles and Woolworths) are ‘super-normal’.
Read MoreAustralia has now gone nine months without any further falls in business investment, the first time this has happened in five years, according to the latest Deloitte Access Economics Investment Monitor. We’ve seen company profits increase and borrowing costs remaining low, however, household debt remains a concern.
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Digital Crew director Ophenia Liang talks to Peter Switzer on SkyBusiness on how to market in China.
Posted on Oct 7, 2016
Dr Louise Mahler talks to Carson Scott from Sky Business about gender equality in banking and finance
Posted on Aug 10, 2016
BDO tax partner Mark Molesworth on Sky Business providing a rundown of tax and business measures in the Federal Budget 2016.
Posted on Feb 7, 2016
Pitcher Partners’ David Lane talks to Mark Todd from Sky Business’s “Your Money, Your Call” about volatile markets.
Professor Elizabeth Sheedy said risk management was not compulsory at most MBA schools despite the Hayne royal commission showing how problematic governance had become.
ANZ’s move on bonuses may well start to shake up the self-interested culture, says Macquarie Business School Professor Elizabeth Sheedy in the Australian Financial Review.
Australia might only have a decade left to wean itself off coal if the latest international efforts to decarbonise are anything to go by. See the opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald by Macquarie University’s Professor Martina Linnenluecke.
You’re back at your desk. It’s the start of a new work year. What will 2017 bring?
What are your aspirations? Will you get that promotion? Will you be considered for partnership in your firm? How about that board position you’ve been coveting? Will you be included on the next government roundtable? The next media organisation roundtable?
But there’s probably one thing you haven’t thought about. Read More
Social licence is a hot topic right now. Malcolm Turnbull this week warns banks that they operate with a social licence for the people. This follows the banks’ refusal to pass on the full rate cut.
Also this week, we have seen the Baird Government’s greyhound ban legislation pass in the upper house. It will be enacted later this month – all on the back of the industry’s inability to meet its social licence obligations.
You see, in this instance, the community just doesn’t accept animal cruelty, or greyhound killings or ‘wastage’ (a much more palatable term), or live-baiting.
If you think we live in a country relatively free from the fraud and corruption that plagues many parts of the world, a new KPMG survey might shake you up a little. Our six-monthly Fraud Barometer* shows a large rise in number, and especially the value of frauds being committed in Australia.
Australia might only have a decade left to wean itself off coal if the latest international efforts to decarbonise are anything to go by. See the opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald by Macquarie University’s Professor Martina Linnenluecke.
Macquarie University Professor of Environmental Finance Martina Linnenluecke talks to ABC Radio PM’s Rachel Mealy and says the economics of the Adani coal plant don’t add up as Australia’s investment in coal will be written down in as little as 10 years.
When is discrimination bad behaviour, and not unconscious bias? Has unconcious bias training gone a step too far? Macquarie University Professor Lucy Taksa says unconcious bias is a ‘get out of jail free card’ allowing people to deny they engage in illegal behaviour. See article in The Conversation.
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