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Australian small businesses could be stretched by changes to commercial credit cards

  • Written by: Steve Worthington, Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology

Small to medium enterprises (SME) are increasingly relying on commercial credit cards to finance their operations, because payment terms for the businesses they supply are stretching out. But if the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) goes ahead with plans to include commercial cards in the new caps on interchange fees, SMEs will be even more hard...

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ACCC takes VW to court -- but will it help consumers?

  • Written by: Jeannie Marie Paterson, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne
imageThe ACCC is taking VW to court. VW image from www.shutterstock.com

Yesterday the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that it has instituted proceedings against Volkswagen (VW). The ACCC is pursuing VW for allegedly misleading consumers (in contravention of Australian Consumer Law) around emissions from its diesel cars.

In...

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Questioning the 'miracles' of Saint Teresa

  • Written by: Philip Almond, Professorial Research Fellow in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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In 2002, the Vatican officially recognised as a miracle the healing of an Indian woman’s cancer of the abdomen. This occurred as the result of the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa’s picture. The woman, Monica Besra, said a beam of light had emanated from the picture, curing her cancerous tumour.

This one miracle was...

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Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?

  • Written by: Diana Perche, Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy, Macquarie University
imageMalcolm Turnbull explicitly chose to assume the mantle of his predecessor Tony Abbott as 'prime minister for Indigenous affairs'.AAP/Mick Tsikas

The opening of the 45th parliament this week featured the now firmly established practice of an Indigenous smoking ceremony, and a Welcome to Country by Ngunnawal elder Tina Brown.

The occasion included...

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