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- Paying For General Motors Mistakes | BTalk Australia
- (11min 47) The Australian government has promised $6.2 billion over 13 years to support the Australian car industry. The question is, of course, will the industry last that long? Holden could well be brought down with the collapse of its US parent, General Motors. With the cash...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Who Should Pay for Maternity Leave? | BTalk Australia
- (13min 23) What is the best method for providing income support for parents during the first year of their child's life? Should support be tax-payer funded, employer funded or self-funded? Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Jessica Brown from the Centre for Independent Studies about...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Capital Xenophobia | BTalk Australia
- (15min 10) Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Stephen Kirchner from the Centre for Independent Studies about his paper Capital Xenophobia 2. He says that restrictive investment regimes are holding Australia back. Although the situation has improved since the eighties, we still fall a long way behind the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- BTalk Turns 100 | BTalk Australia
- (26min 23) Welcome to the 100th episode of BTalk Australia. Back in June we kicked off a daily podcast, aimed at Aussies but intended to be of interest to BNet users the world over. Today you can hear the variety of topics we have covered so...
- Blog posts 2008-10-19
- A Waste of Taxpayers' Money | BTalk Australia
- (15min 53) This week the Australian Federal Government announced a $42 billion fiscal stimulus package to protect the economy from the ravages of the world downturn. Will it work? That’s a question Phil Dobbie puts to Robert Carling, a Senior Fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies....
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- David vs Goliath | BTalk Australia
- (8min 27) When Encyclopaedia Britannica asked their Australian MD to move on there was disagreement as to how much he was owed. David Campbell believed he was entitled to nine months redundancy pay but he was paid for three. Newly unemployed, he was prepared to go to court to fight...
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- The Business Council on the Rudd Stimulus Package | BTalk Australia
- (14min 55) After some argy-bargy in the Senate, the Australian government has passed a $42 billion fiscal stimulus package. About a third of the money will go in cash handouts to low and middle income earners, with most of the remainder allocated on infrastructure projects. There’s been...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Do We Need an Aussie Mac? | BTalk Australia
- (13min 24) The government bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has shown the depth of the US credit crisis. Yet Christopher Joye and Joshua Gans propose that an Australia equivalent, dubbed AussieMac, would provide a minimum level of liquidity during times of financial crisis and ensure continued...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Full fees deter local students, report says.
- Byline: Lisa Macnamara Oct 31, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A Monash University research paper points to Australia facing a shortage of health, engineering, accounting and teaching graduates. It says there are not enough government-assisted places being provided and that...
- Research articles 2006-10-31
- Vanstone defends work visas.
- Byline: Nick O'Malley Sep 06, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The World Bank's suggestion that Australia allow Pacific Islanders to work as fruit pickers has come under attack. The Centre for Independent Studies has produced a report...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- Free speech sits ill with a free market.
- Sep 27, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- The Centre for Independent Studies CIS is the Australian Government's adviser on education policy. The CIS questions the value of democracy. It is surprising that a body such as the CIS should be...
- Research articles 2001-09-26
- Business Across Boundaries | BTalk Australia
- (8 min 27) What's the key to operating successfully in the international world of business? With a small local market many Aussie businesses have to expand overseas if they are to grow, but it can be a risky step to take, particularly in the current economic climate. Irrespective of the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Would a GM Collapse Have International Repercussions?
- (11min 47) The Australian government has promised $6.2 billion over 13 years to support the Australian car industry. The question is, of course, will the industry last that long? Holden could well be brought down with the collapse of its U.S. parent, General Motors. With the cash...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Breaking the Cycle of Family Joblessness | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 238: 11min 24) Despite reports of low unemployment, almost one in eight children in Australia live in a family where no parent is working. This is a significant improvement on the situation in the mid-90s, but could get worse with the economic downturn. Jessica Brown from...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Consilium gives elite players something to think about.
- Aug 18, 2002 The Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX -- Michael Chaney says he spent the weekend before he announced Wesfarmers' annual results "out of his comfort zone". Chaney spent the weekend in early August 2002 at a three-day conference set up by...
- Research articles 2002-08-18
- Are Cartels a Bad Thing? | BTalk Australia
- (Episode 317; 9 minutes 13) Well, of course cartels are a bad thing, but Jason Soon, a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies, says their impact is often overstated and so is the legislative response. He argues the case in his paper The Folly of Criminalising Cartels. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- In passing
- Henry Enns: Executive Director of the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies; played a leading role in international organizations for persons with disabilities. Died in Sri Lanka while on a CCDS research project for the Asian Development Bank. Tanis Doe: Professor, School of Social Work at the University of Victoria;...
- Research articles 2004-09-20
- Polls close in Ukraine's presidential runoff vote
- KIEV AFP — Polling stations closed in Ukraine's crucial runoff presidential election that pitted a pro-Russia prime minister against a Western-leaning opposition candidate. An independent exit poll by the Razumkov Ukrainian Centre for Economic and Political Studies and the Kiev International Institute for Sociology KMIS said Pro-Western opposition leader...
- Research articles 2004-11-21
- Pro-West opposition leader wins Ukraine presidential vote: exit poll
- KIEV AFP — Pro-Western opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won Ukraine's presidential runoff election, comfortably beating pro-Russia Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, an independent exit poll showed. Yushchenko got 54 percent of the vote, compared to 43 percent for Yanukovich, according to a revised exit poll by the Razumkov Ukrainian Centre...
- Research articles 2004-11-21
- Jim Shows Growth in the Garden | BTalk Australia
- (21min 05) Jim Penman, the man behind Jim’s Mowing, says he loves recessions. They provide a new growth in franchisees who can help to meet the continual demand for gardening services. In a wide ranging discussion Phil Dobbie asks him about how he started out, what...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
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