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is South Australia's youth population rising or falling?

  • Written by: Helen Barrie, Deputy Director of the Australian Migration and Population Research Centre, University of Adelaide

Nick Xenophon: The key issue here – and what I find most galling and emblematic of what is wrong – is we now have fewer young people in South Australia than we did 36 years ago, when our population was 400,000 fewer.

Jay Weatherill: And Nick – you’ve done it before. You’ve said that there are fewer young people here...

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why Wesfarmers is ditching Coles

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Associate Professor in Marketing and International Business, Queensland University of Technology
why Wesfarmers is ditching ColesWhoever buys Coles will have a huge store network. Shutterstock

Coles will soon be an independent company again, with more than 800 supermarkets, nearly 900 liquor stores, 700 service stations, and 88 hotels.

Spinning off Coles is a great example of how good Wesfarmers is at entering and exiting markets. Buying the ailing Coles in 2007 was a smart...

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Gig platforms' claims over worker chat groups: fraught territory indeed

  • Written by: Kimberlee Weatherall, Professor and Associate Dean (Research) The University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney

Food delivery platform Foodora, it seems, is trying to claim intellectual property rights over an encrypted chat group that Foodora riders were using to swap tips and shifts, and talk about pay and conditions.

This raises important questions about what digital privacy rights we have, especially over what might once have been “water...

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Both Australia and the region would benefit from a single market in Asia

  • Written by: Fariborz Moshirian, Professor of Finance, Director of the Institute of Global Finance, UNSW

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has achieved important milestones in recent years, such as the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community and the ASEAN Free Trade Area.

But these were just the first steps towards a single market. Removing trade and other barriers among ASEAN countries would create a more effective regional...

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