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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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  2. Interactive: what powers does ASIO have to question and detain terror suspects?
  3. Explainer: what are drug cryptomarkets?
  4. To raise status of teaching, Australia needs to lift pay and cut teacher numbers
  5. The Climate Change Authority's gamble on political pragmatism
  6. Beneath the surface of tourism in Bali
  7. Friday essay: on listening to new national storytellers
  8. Human trials on Earth are the key to how we will survive on Mars
  9. Turnbull government loses discipline and votes in House chaos
  10. Grattan on Friday: Labor's Sam Dastyari suffers Chinese burn
  11. Politics podcast: Eric Abetz on the conservatives in the Liberal Party
  12. China hosts the G20: prepare to be underwhelmed?
  13. Lucy's shattered bones prove our ancestors lived a dangerous life in the trees
  14. Are mosquitoes to blame for the spread of 'flesh-eating' bacteria?
  15. Mobile phone health alarmists bereft of credible arguments
  16. Humans are experimenting with the planet, so let's make sure we learn along the way
  17. Briefcase phones, bracelet radios and other obsolete design gems
  18. What can we learn from children's drawings?
  19. Explainer: what is Section 18C and why do some politicians want it changed?
  20. From the Kama Sutra to Tinder: sex and love in India
  21. Australia needs to follow the US in funding urban rail projects
  22. Better regulation of all political finance would help control foreign donations
  23. ADF set to hit more Islamic State targets under legal change
  24. Time for Australia to provide preschool education for all three year olds?
  25. Between perceptions and realities of Australian-Indonesian attitudes: a view from Indonesia
  26. A guide for how to choose therapy for a child with autism
  27. Social determinants – how class and wealth affect our health
  28. Want to improve the nation's health? Start by reducing inequalities and improving living conditions
  29. Focusing on tests and invalid assessments is the wrong way to measure teacher quality
  30. Still standing: how an ancient clock tower survived Italy's deadly earthquake
  31. Change Agents: Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee on establishing a national women's football league
  32. If the backlash against globalisation hurts China, it hurts global growth too
  33. Where to next for arts philanthropy in Australia?
  34. Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce?
  35. The 2016 Eureka Prizes showcase the best in Australian science
  36. Climate Change Authority suggests emissions trading but no new climate targets
  37. In search of authority, Turnbull can't afford to lose the industrial relations bills
  38. Turnbull's ratings slump in first Newspoll since election
  39. Adani should bow out gracefully from its Carmichael coal mine
  40. On the marriage equality plebiscite, let's not confuse free speech with a free-for-all
  41. European Commission warns multinationals as Apple ordered to pay €13 billion in tax
  42. You say tomato... why some fruits are forever doomed to be called veggies
  43. Don't give up your day job ... little has changed for individual artists
  44. Weekly Dose: Naloxone, how to save a life from opioid overdose
  45. Politics podcast: Fred Smith on The Dust of Uruzgan
  46. Do moves against Hangzhou G20 'rumours' help show China at its best or worst?
  47. Section 18C is too broad and too vague, and should be repealed
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