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Australia and India: some way to go yet

  • Written by: Nick Bisley, Executive Director of La Trobe Asia and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Malcolm Turnbull is in the middle of his inaugural visit to India. He appears to have developed a good rapport with India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi. This is a vital development if Australia is to realise its ambition to significantly improve Australia-India relations.

Despite the cliché that India and Australia...

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Flu vaccine won't definitely stop you from getting the flu, but it's more important than you think

  • Written by: Allen Cheng, Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
imageWhile the flu vaccine cuts your chance of coming down with influenza, that's not the whole story.from www.shutterstock.com

As we head towards a southern hemisphere winter, many people are wondering if it’s worth getting the flu vaccine.

Generally speaking, if you are vaccinated, you’re less likely to get the flu. But that’s not the...

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Who owns the world? Tracing half the corporate giants' shares to 30 owners

  • Written by: David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University

When people say share ownership is highly diversified, they think most large public corporations have lots of shareholders – and often the largest shareholder has less than 15%, sometimes less than 5%, of the total shareholdings.

But looking at it this way obscures the concentration that is taking place. The same organisations – usually...

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The research on hot-desking and activity-based work isn't so positive

  • Written by: Libby Sander, Lecturer, Bond Business School, Bond University

A recent survey of 400 multinational corporations found that two-thirds plan to implement shared-desk workplaces by 2020. But research shows these arrangements have a range of outcomes, many of which are negative.

A recently published study of 1,000 Australian employees found that shared-desk environments had a number of problems. These included...

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