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Backpacker tax: if it were never broke, why try to fix it?

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The Federal Government has announced it will delay the start of the so-called backpacker tax by six months. The delay has been welcomed by the tourism sector and farmers, who rely on backpackers as a relatively cheap source of labour, especially in the crucial harvest season.

But change to the status quo is unnecessary. The furore appears to be...

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YouTube Red is here, and it breaks the video-on-demand mould

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YouTube this week launched its paid subscription service, YouTube Red, in Australia and New Zealand. These are the first two countries to gain access to the service outside of the United States.

The introduction of a new major video-on-demand (VoD) service will now challenge many media corporations that...

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