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What do the USA, China, Sweden, and Israel have in common? Over the years, necessity has forced them to become largely self-sufficient. Sweden and Israel both have roughly 10 million people, or about 40% of what Australia has, so it’s not all about population size and the size of the domestic economy excuse doesn’t hold […]

Usually within hours of a Federal budget, there is plenty of commentary on what the budget means, how it will work, and who will benefit. This time though, crickets, which is because the changes are the most complicated and ill thought through in history. The hardest hit will be the aspirational middle class especially renters […]

We’re all sick of hearing about the fuel crisis already. But it’s vital for businesses (and people) to understand what the effects of this are to manage the situation. This article is not about what type of car people should have to get to work. Fossil fuels feeds into nearly every part of our lives, […]

Dubbed the “AI apocalypse”, in the space of 1 week, 10’s of thousands of previously safe data coding jobs were lost at leading IT developers. These “jobs of the future” that our young have been pushed towards for the past decade have now been replaced by computers programming computers. AI is exponentially more disruptive than […]

If someone is walking around with their fly down, do you tell them? Short term humiliation is almost guaranteed for both persons, so most avoid the hard task but in the process cause a worse situation for the poor unaware “flasher”. There are many written and unwritten rules in workplaces that prohibit the truth about […]

A New Year brings out everything from resolutions to crystal balls. I usually steer clear of both but thought I’d go out on a limb this year and decipher the facts around Electric earth moving equipment to predict where the market is heading. As this is still a fairly new concept in earth moving, but […]

As a business owner or indeed manager, you are expected to be across every rule and regulation that affects your business. Each rule on its own might seem innocuous enough but piled on top of each other becomes a mountain. And if you get it wrong, you are penalised. What if we demanded the same […]

Roy Morgan recently published a report that sounded alarmist: 25% of Australians believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk of human extinction in the next 20 years, up from 20% only 2 years earlier. It wasn’t until I sat down and thought about it that it became clear how much AI has already made inroads, […]

We expect businesses to have a so called “social license”, which means to do the right thing by the community it operates within. Probably the toughest field in which to secure a social license must be mining and value-added refining, so thought it appropriate to look at the comments about a lack of “social license” […]

Employers in all industries I speak to are suffering the same issues when it comes to finding suitably qualified employees, which then limits business growth and our ability to service our client bases, so it’s a problem that needs addressing from the whole of our society. Lower skilled roles are harder to fill than higher […]