News articles – Category: Environment

The populations of many developed countries are ageing fast, sometimes with surprising outcomes. Falling birth rates and improving mortality rates are translating to more white hair in our communities.

There is no other country like Australia. But how do we compare with others, Canada for example. Both Australia and Canada started out in the same way as colonies of Great Britain before they became Federations.

We live in a world where we are often asked to show our ID. If you are investing, banking or taking out a loan you will need to prove who you are.

2010 will go down in history as yet another year full of uncertainty and surprises. As the developing nations in Asia continue to thrive with an expanding middle class and significant wealth creation many of the developed nations in the West are struggling to cope with the financial and social consequences of their new austerity measures.

Government policy aims to better target benefit recipients.

Downager is the badge given to baby boomers who feel younger than their chronological years. Now that’s Downager not dowager*

Daily media reporting on the financial crisis makes it difficult to see the big picture.

The government calls it a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) and the opposition calls it a tax. Everyone else calls it carbon trading. Most Australians are in favour of it, even though most of us don’t know what it is.