Past Programs
Business, Economics and Finance - 2005
Football and Asia
26/11/2005
When Australia takes the field in next year's World Cup in Germany it will do so as the newest member of the Asian Football Confederation. But the significance of representing Asia in the world game's premier international competition goes well beyond the football field. This new sporting relationship with Asia could create new opportunities for commercial, cultural and political engagement.
Australian Social Attitudes Survey
15/10/2005
After 30 years of economic reform in Australia, there has been an inevitable flow-on to social attitudes and even the personality of the country. The first Australian Survey of Social Attitudes has just been published, in book form, which charts, among other things, our attitudes to privatisation, globalisation, welfare and change itself.
China the Great
27/08/2005
China's growing economic power is affecting every other country - there are both opportunites and dangers there, says The Economist, in From T Shirts to T Bonds - China and the World Economy.
Telstra Boss: his American past
06/08/2005
There has been fascinating public theatre this week with the spats between Telstra and the government. The new CEO, Sol Trujillo, has been swanning around the bush trying to shift the agenda over universal service obligations, saying it's unfair and uncompetitive for Telstra to be forced to provide cheap services to the bush. Sean Aylmer looks at Trujillo's record in his home country of the United States, where he was head of a telco, USWest, and was equally controversial.
Kyoto Protocol, a third way
30/07/2005
Warwick McKibbin has formulated a response to what he sees as the unworkability of the Kyoto Protocol. It's a market-driven solution which involves governments making it worthwhile for business to invest in developing clean technologies for the future.
Big Debt
14/05/2005
It's the elephant in the living room and it's household debt - that has reached record levels in Australia where we owe a crushing 785 billion dollars to lending institutions.
And it's getting easier, not harder to bulk up with credit as new ways of lending, such as low-doc loans, are being offered.
Charity free for all
30/04/2005
The charity sector, which includes all the country's not-for-profit organisations large and small, makes around 70 billion dollars a year in revenue.
That's almost 10 per cent of the Australian economy, yet this part of the economy is virtually beyond scrutiny to the extent that it is being described as a hidden economic giant that's dangerously unaccountable.
Charities don't have to file income tax returns, nor do they have to detail the tax exemptions they get. Even people from within the sector are calling for reform.
Footy Business
02/04/2005
Whether you are talking about rugby union, soccer, AFL or rugby league, they are all no longer community-based games of passion but dispassionate businesses that turn over hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Footy players are now full-time professionals, and footy fans - well, they're now clients.
As the codes challenge one another for the entertainment dollar we ask, what are the business plans that underpin football in its highly competitive marketplace?
