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Why Australian supermarkets continue to look to the UK for leadership

  • Written by Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology

The poaching of Tesco veteran Claire Peters by Australia’s largest supermarket Woolworths is the latest in a line of British trained retail executives who made their way to Australia. Sadly, the shortsightedness of Australian retail management and years of complacency has forced supermarket boards to look further afield for retail talent.

Not...

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Three theories for what's causing the global productivity slowdown

  • Written by Roy Green, Dean of UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
imageWhy isn't new technology reflected in our productivity stats?Shutterstock.com

There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly reflect differences in labour productivity”.

Further, “productivity is expected to be the main driver of...

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ASEAN countries should find a solution to end the persecution of Rohingya

  • Written by Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, Research Fellow at the ASEAN Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada
imageThe Rohingya are one the of the world’s most-persecuted ethnic minorities.Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters

ASEAN’s non-intervention is aggravating the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslims suffering widespread abuse by the Burmese military in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The Rohingya are one the of the world’s most persecuted ethnic...

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Who will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall's blog is gone?

  • Written by Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor, Monash University
imageThe number of predatory scientific journals has exploded in recent years.Shutterstock

For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall’s blog charted the murky world of predatory and vanity academic publishers, many of which charge excessive fees for publishing papers or...

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  1. President Trump threatens to undermine key measure of climate policy success
  2. What comes next for Nick Kyrgios is up to Nick Kyrgios
  3. Explainer: what are the limits to charities advancing political causes?
  4. Obama's legacy: history will judge him more kindly than his critics think
  5. Australians on Twitter were 'positive' about the US election of Donald Trump
  6. Syria, Russia and Turkey – the uneasy alliance reshaping world politics
  7. Ultra, super, clean coal power? We've heard it before
  8. Mythbusting Ancient Rome - the truth about the vomitorium
  9. Breast milk banking continues an ancient human tradition and can save lives
  10. Australia needs to invest if it wants the tourism boom to continue
  11. Vital Signs: brace yourselves for the new economic reality
  12. All hail Trump, the great transgressor!
  13. Australia's privacy laws gutted in court ruling on what is 'personal information'
  14. Aussie rules football still has a way to go to be considered 'feminist'
  15. Why don't we know how many people die in our hospitals?
  16. Baird's early exit means NSW loses a leader whose best years were yet to come
  17. 2016 crowned hottest year on record: Australia needs to get heat smart
  18. Australian science making some progress amid the march of ministers
  19. Is 2017 the year to ditch the term 'innovation'?
  20. Clemency for Chelsea Manning – but will Assange or Snowden also find the US merciful?
  21. Physical health ignored in people with mental illness
  22. The world's best wildlife photography reveals a fragile, beautiful realm
  23. Printing more money isn't the answer to all economic ills
  24. Australia needs stricter rules to curb air pollution, but there's a lot we could all do now
  25. If we scrapped the states, increasing Canberra's clout would be a backward step
  26. Explainer: Why the human voice is so versatile
  27. The search for MH370 is over: what we learnt and where to now
  28. Stinking dead fish portend major problem with carp herpes release
  29. University completion rates won't be improved by looking at isolated causes
  30. Celebrating the songs of Australia's civil rights movement
  31. Do 8 men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population?
  32. What's in store for new health minister Greg Hunt?
  33. How professional sport handicaps youth sporting culture
  34. What next for the ASX and Blockchain in 2017?
  35. FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices?
  36. Xi Jinping may be preaching trade, but China's opening up has slowed
  37. When gentrification lacks empathy: a case study
  38. A genuinely believable CGI actor? It won't be long
  39. Ways to spend spare time online
  40. Unpaid work experience is widespread but some are missing out: new study
  41. Murky waters: why is Japan still whaling in the Southern Ocean?
  42. Turnbull makes a good start on expenses, but needs to go further
  43. Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell's floating planetoid skull
  44. What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?
  45. Why learn spelling or maths if there's an app for that?
  46. Brexit, Trump and the TPP mean Australia should pursue more bilateral trade agreements
  47. Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: here's why
  48. When politicians become pundits
  49. When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing
  50. The trouble with 'microaggressions'

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