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ECONOMICS

Gloomy forecast for Aboriginal super
- David James
- 12 December 2012
6 Comments
Superannuation is not generally available before the age of 55. For most of the population of Australia this is scarcely a problem, as they are likely to live well into their 80s. But the average life span of Aboriginal Australians is much lower. Many will not live long enough to derive financial advantage from their super.
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ECONOMICS

Debunking the global financial con job
- David James
- 12 November 2012
12 Comments
Even after the most dangerous financial crises ever seen, finance industry lobbyists still argue that the sector should not be too heavily regulated as that would be counterproductive. This is nonsense. Money is rules. It is a question of who sets the rules and what kind of rules they should should be.
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ECONOMICS

Australia's pension fund perversion
- David James
- 03 October 2012
7 Comments
The demise of Gunns, Tasmania's biggest paper and pulp mill, has been greeted as a triumph of environmentalists over business. The saga encompasses much more than that. It poses some deep questions about ownership and accountability in Australia's financial system which are yet to be answered persuasively.
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ECONOMICS

The upside down world of global capital
- David James
- 27 August 2012
5 Comments
Money is not like water, that 'flows' around the world, reaching 'equilibrium', or experiencing 'volatility'. It is transactions between people, based on trust. It enables the cooperation that forms the basis of social life. Human beings should be at the centre. Yet that is the opposite of what is happening.
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AUSTRALIA

Military Commission rules lessen Hicks chances of fair trial
- James Montgomery
- 02 April 2007
Serious discussion of the David Hicks case should take place in the context of due process. Any commentator who has not read the prosecution brief is indulging in speculation and uninformed comment.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The joker in the pack—top ten limericks
- Judges Philip Harvey, James Massola and Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
8 Comments
In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
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CONTRIBUTORS

David James
- David James
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David James has been a financial journalist for 28 years. He was a senior writer and columnist at BRW for 25 years, a senior journalist at AAA Banking magazine, an editor and writer for stockbroker JB Were & Sons and a journalist at The Melbourne Herald. He is author of Managing for the Twenty First Century and The Business Devil’s Dictionary. He has a PhD from Monash University: Illusions of Time in Shakespeare's Plays. He now works as a freelance journalist and editor.
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