There was a time when shoppers could easily differentiate between supermarket private labels and proprietary branded products, however new “phantom brands” appearing on supermarket shelves are clouding the waters. These are private supermarket label products without any reference to the supermarket’s brand or logo.

Despite...

In relation to this FactCheck on participation in the job market, a spokesman for Brendan O'Connor said:

You’ll see in the screen grab (figure 1), which is sourced from the ABS (Table 1, Participation rate – seasonally adjusted), that the participation rate did indeed fall from 64.9% in July 2016, to 64.7% in August 2016 and then to...

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So it is with a sense of familiarity that we greet AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

In early 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner for US$164 billion. Broadly, like AT&T’s acquisition, AOL’s involved a sausage maker acquiring something to put in those...