Uber drivers have been classified as taxi drivers and will have to register for GST. Uber says they will challenge the decisionMAHATHIR MOHD YASIN / Shutterstock.comAre Australian Uber drivers taxi drivers? Uber says they are not, but a recent Australian Taxation Office advisory on the tax and the sharing economy, says they are, and must...
Author Melina Marchetta is a guest at this year's Sydney Writers' Festival.AAP Image/Penguin Group
Looking for Alibrandi (1992).Penguin Books
We fell in love with Josephine Alibrandi’s humour, we came to respect Taylor Markham’s tenacity in the face of adversity, and we quietly rooted for Tom Mackee. We found ourselves immersed in the...
If patients contract drug resistant HIV, they may have to be prescribed more expensive drugs. Finbarr O'Reilly/ReutersHealth care is entering a new era of personalised medicine, where treatment is tailored to the individual patient. To usher in this era, researchers across the world are trying to create cheaper tests that can find DNA mutations in...
When asked to document their own literacy practices, children in Ghana revealed a rich life of learning outside formal school structures.
Researchers know very little about the daily lives and education of children who are excluded from formal schooling. According to UNESCO’s definition of “out of...
In environments where the ground itself is constantly shifting, breaking, and being reshaped, every component must be built to endure. Mining operations are among the most demanding in the industria...
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If you’re in business, you might have seen it before. A team of capable and smart people just suddenly slows down, and things start spiraling out of control. On paper, everything looks perfect, but ...
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Across Australia, a lot of tradies are busy. There’s no shortage of demand in industries like plumbing, electrical, landscaping, and building. But being busy doesn’t always mean running a smooth or...
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