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Australian corporate social responsibility reports are little better than window dressing

  • Written by: Stephanie Schleimer, Senior Lecturer in Strategy, Griffith University
imageDespite the increased focus on corporate social responsibility, businesses don't seem to be cleaning up their act.www.shutterstock.com

Despite increasing visibility of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives over the last decade, real change in corporate behaviour has tended to be modest.

This is clear from the sections in financial...

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Victoria needs a big-picture transport plan that isn't about winners v losers

  • Written by: Crystal Legacy, Australian Research Council (DECRA) Fellow and Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
imageThe car-based logic of Melbourne’s 1969 transport plan has been deeply implanted into Victorians’ collective consciousness.AAP/David Crosling

Australian cities are inherently diverse places, but that diversity can lead to conflict between different values about what cities should and can be. Our series, Conflict in the City, brings...

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Governments and central banks should stop trying to stimulate the economy

  • Written by: Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
imagePersistent low growth shows fiscal and monetary policy aren't working.Soon/Flickr, CC BY-NC

It is surely time for governments around the world, including Australia’s, to remember the first law of holes: if you’re in one, stop digging. Governments have been digging madly since the global financial crisis, injecting massive amounts of...

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