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"Woolworths and Coles pay about 98% of revenue to stakeholders" | Brett Stevenson (opens the original)
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Michael Stutchbury interviews Brett Stevenson about his new CIS paper The Discipline of Profit, which tests the claim that Woolworths and Coles have been raking in megaprofits at the expense of shoppers, suppliers and staff. Stevenson goes to the only place the argument can actually be settled: the companies’ own audited accounts. 👉 Support CIS Research: 🔹 Become a member: https://www.cis.org.au/membership-2-step-1/ 🔹 Make a donation: https://www.cis.org.au/support/donate/today/ 🔹 Learn more: ht
Wrong way – go back How Australia’s workplace relations system is holding back growth, wages and opportunity | Graeme Watson (opens the original)
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This is the audio version of Wrong Way – Go Back: How Australia’s Workplace Relations System is Holding Back Growth, Wages and Opportunity, a Centre for Independent Studies paper by former Fair Work Commission vice-president Graeme Watson. For the full paper, go to: https://www.cis.org.au/publication/wrong-way-go-back-how-australias-workplace-relations-system-is-holding-back-growth-wages-and-opportunity/ Watson argues that Australia’s workplace system is uniquely prescriptive and uniquely comple
Classrooms in Crisis: Why Australian Kids Are Losing 12 Weeks a Year | Blaise Joseph (opens the original)
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Watch here: https://youtu.be/8PZDxDVb1_o Michael Stutchbury interviews CIS Education Director Blaise Joseph about his new paper: Classrooms in Crisis: Australian teacher views on student behaviour. A national survey of more than 370 teachers finds classroom disruption is costing students an average of 12 weeks of learning a year — roughly one-third of instructional time 👉 Support CIS Research: 🔹 Become a member: https://www.cis.org.au/membership-2-step-1/ 🔹 Make a donation: https://www.cis.org.a
Australia’s workplace relations system is holding back growth, wages and opportunity | Graeme Watson (opens the original)
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Michael Stutchbury interviews the Hon Graeme Watson, former Vice President of the Fair Work Commission, about how Australia’s workplace relations system is holding back productivity, real wages, investment and business growth. 👉 Support CIS Research: 🔹 Become a member: https://www.cis.org.au/membership-2-s... 🔹 Make a donation: https://www.cis.org.au/support/donate... 🔹 Learn more: https://www.cis.org.au/ 👉 Further reading: https://www.cis.org.au/publication/wrong-way-go-back-how-australias-work
Culture, Multiculturalism and Immigration | Henry Ergas AO (opens the original)
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Has Australia’s experiment with multiculturalism reached a breaking point? In this episode of Liberalism in Question, economist and public intellectual Henry Ergas AO joins the conversation to examine one of the most sensitive and consequential questions facing classical liberalism in Australia today: how a free and open society can sustain social cohesion amid rapid demographic change, cultural fragmentation, and the rise of identity politics. Ergas, a long-time columnist for The Australian, fo
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