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The intergenerational theft that is the legacy for our youth is not public debt, it is the mountain of private debt at the heart of our new banana republic 
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MORE than two thirds of Aussies are planning to make extra money from sharing economy sites such as Uber, Airtasker and Airbnb in 2015, according to a new study.
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Food forests are Nature’s way of growing food, the most sustainable and productive system known, that require minimal effort to maintain by taking advantage of ecological processes that have evolved and been perfected over hundreds of millions of years.
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One in five Australian households now have rooftop solar systems installed.
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A group of Melbourne councils are banding together to bypass the renewable policies of the state and federal governments and directly appeal to clean-energy providers.
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The rise of technologies such as lightweight robots, 3D printing and power computing tools will play an important role in helping the Australian manufacturing industry through one of its most critical junctures.
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A new report suggests growing momentum in Australia around collaborative economy platforms that use technology to enable people to share and exchange a variety of goods and services.
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Over the past 12 months, Australia has seen more start-ups created, more incubation programs and greater angel investment than at any other time.
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Earlier this year, I travelled to Melbourne for a conference. Instead of paying to stay in a hotel like I normally would, I paid a local couple to stay in their spare room.
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Andy is the co-founder of Yatango, a collaborative consumption technology platform based in Australia.He is also the co-founder of p2p money lending platform, SocietyOne. In this interview, he talks about Yatango, a platform that allows users to build their on mobile plans and allows them to change it on a month to month basis to optimise their plan.
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The sharing economy (the peer-to-peer economy / collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical resources.
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Every day more of us are growing our own food. The number of people growing food in the US doubled from 2008-2013. Other countries are seeing similar growth.
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The Australian tax commissioner has left open the possibility that the digital payment system bitcoin could be considered legal tender in Australia.
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In June 2013 I was fortunate enough to be the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship, to investigate innovative models of urban agriculture in the US mid-west, Toronto, and Argentina. I remember being told that ‘you have travelled, but you have not travelled as a Churchill Fellow.” At the time, I didn’t quite appreciate what that meant. I wasn’t planning to travel until the middle of 2014, so felt pleased with the award and then put the trip to the back of my mind.
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The 'sharing economy' is transforming Australia's economic landscape, with two thirds of job seekers looking to platforms like UberX, Airtasker and 99designs to supplement their income in 2015.
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Nearly 90% of Australian voters support the country’s current Renewable Energy Target, according to a new poll.
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Australia's solar researchers have converted over 40 percent of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. A key part of the prototype's design is the use of a custom optical bandpass filter to capture sunlight that is normally wasted by commercial solar cells on towers and convert it to electricity at a higher efficiency than the solar cells themselves ever could.
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This report compares Australia's action on climate change to the rest of the world in regard to reducing emissions and renewable energy, including the actions taken by some of the world's largest economies such as China, the US and EU.
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Australia has fared poorly in Ericsson's 'Networked Society City Index', with Sydney coming in at 19th place.
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As the high-tech connected or "smart city" becomes reality around the world, local governments in Australia are being cautious about whether the financial commitment to technology infrastructure is worth the return.
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"To provide a framework of analysis for your inquiry I invite your committee to consider if official forms of digital money that represent around 97% of all money in Australia are fit for purpose? In this way the committee can establish criteria for evaluating existing1 digital currencies and a proposal for adopting a long term stable, democratic and sustainable form of digital money and unit of value referred to in this submission as $Z. This submission identifies ten reasons why Australian money is not fit for purpose and why $Z is fit for purpose offering twenty advantages.
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Over the last five years, an explosive number of businesses around the world have emerged that tap into the power of technology tenable people to connect with each other and share and exchange all ...
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A new report, The Emerging Collaborative Economy in Australia, produced by Vision Critical in partnership with Collaborative Laband Nine! Rewards, reveals promising uptake of and enthusiasm for collaborative economy platforms that use technology to enable people to connect to share and exchange a variety of goods and services. There is already high penetration of many brands in the space, with 61 percent of those surveyed aware of services such as Airbnb, Kickstarter, Uber and GoGet Car Share.
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The democratising potential of workers’ capital has sometimes been used as a justification for privatising retirement security and the integration of workers’ interests into financial markets. This potential has been somewhat over-stated. It is true that institutional investors, especially pension funds, have rapidly increased in size and market share over recent decades. But this shift in the ownership of capital has not resulted in a shift of control. In Australia, some superannuation funds provide scope for workers, through their unions, to have an influence on investment strategy. In practice, this influence is very limited.
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It's time we questioned the pre-eminent ideology of our times: liberalism. Neither variety has much to say about the essence of a good life or the foundations of a good society.
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