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UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... Paris Agreement commitment to limit global warming to 1.5C. "UNSW has a proud history of being at the forefront of climate science and renewable energy and there is a clear expectation from our community that we forge a leadership role on climate change," ...

Technology to transform coming decades

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... non-sustainable environmental activities - and this will transform our economy," it said. Perhaps the most frightening and science fiction-esque prediction coming out of KPMG and ANU is a rise of genetic manipulation and brain computer interfaces over ...

Regulation costly, time consuming: CSIRO

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... corporate world in a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology. The science body noted that Australia's strong regulatory environment is a source of national competitive advantage but can be costly and ...

Chief economist update: Missing the burning forests for the surplus tree

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JAN 2020
... stronger action to both mitigate emissions and also plan for impacts..." This was Ketan Joshi's - University of Sydney science graduate and international renewable energy researcher and author - response to The Fifth Estate 's assertion that ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... 'but on the other..." - Harry Truman The AFR recently published an opinion piece from Kate Samranvedhya - a Bachelor of Science in Economics graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and currently the deputy chief investment officer ...

Tech-powered is empowered: SOAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... engagement with an SOA's content which will no doubt improve the chances of Australians accessing advice. After all, the Social Science Research Network has found that 65% of people are visual learners. "Digital SOAs are key to improving the advice experience. ...

Chief economist update: As low as Lowe will go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... or depreciates), among a myriad of other factors. As I've ranted many, many times before, economics is not an exact science because it is dynamic and doesn't operate in a vacuum. With the Fed on pause - and current expectations are it will remain ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... 2019 and 2.6% next year. I don't want to quibble over the exact point estimates - economics, after all, is an inexact science because of the thousand and more factors that go into producing a single GDP growth number. As 2020 rolls on, we could find ...

One regulatory regime enough: FSC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... everything that forms the basis of a life insurance contract can change in such a long period. There may be changes in medical science that prolong our life expectancy, changes to employment structures or cures for illness that currently impact our lifestyles," ...

Chief economist update: 'Paradox of Thrift' in action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... economy is doing it, for one sector's spending is another sector's income. This is what we call in the dismal science as the "Paradox of Thrift". A penny saved might be a penny earned. But not when everyone is saving every penny.