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FactCheck Q A: can foreign seafarers be paid $2 an hour to work in Australian waters, under laws passed by Labor?

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Uberbanking, with limits

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imageThe idea of a sharing platform that renders the financial warehouse obsolete is fanciful.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

It’s not every day that I feel the need to fight with Martin Wolf. The Financial Times commentator is an eminently respectable analyst and most of the time makes good sense. However, last week he sort of lost the...

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