Dollar dilemma: below parity and going south
Matt Wade After spending most of the past two years more valuable than the greenback, the Australian dollar has finally been driven well below parity with its American counterpart.
Surgeons make the cut as our highest-paid
Matt Wade How many surgeons does it take to earn a billion dollars? Surprisingly few, according to the latest tax figures. They reveal that just 3115 surgeons raked in taxable income of nearly $1.
Road to riches paved with good incisions
Matt Wade How many surgeons does it take to earn a billion dollars? Surprisingly few, according to the latest tax figures. They reveal that just 3115 surgeons raked in taxable income of nearly $1.
Room with a view and a root canal, please
Matt Wade A dental problem, a strong Australian dollar and a ticket to India: it was the perfect combination for my own ''off-shoring'' project.
Obesity costs drag down national good
Matt Wade The cost of obesity to Australia's collective wellbeing has reached $120 billion a year - the equivalent of about 8 per cent of the economy's annual output.
Newborns 'at risk' from milk formula
Matt Wade Breast might be best but 30 years of product boycotts and regulation has failed to stop big companies promoting infant formula in ways that put babies and small children at risk in developing...
Education eases pain amid the belt-tightening
Matt Wade EVEN though we've got less money in our pockets the collective wellbeing of Australians continues to grow because we've invested more in things such as education.
City's working women divide
Matt Wade, Amanda Parkinson The latest census has exposed stark differences in the number of women working, with where you live, cultural background and education all determining job prospects.
To those who have much, more will be given as handouts
Matt Wade THE richest fifth of households receive nearly half of all the wages paid in Australia but also get about 12 per cent of all government handouts, new research by the Bureau of Statistics shows.
Health insurance rebate may shrink by 30% in 10 years
Matt Wade, Craig Butt, Peter Martin IF THE next 10 years are like the past 10, changes to the private health insurance rebate means families with health cover will get about 30 per cent less each year in rebates than they would have by...
Inflation rate to dictate health insurance rebate
Matt Wade, Dan Harrison, Madeleine Heffernan AT LEAST $28 will be added to a typical family's health insurance cover next financial year after the federal government moved to cap increases in its private health insurance rebate to the rate of...
Gong for 'little master' knocks Indian media for six
Matt Wade, Michelle Grattan HOW do you get India's attention? Give Sachin Tendulkar a gong.
Masterful stroke as PM awards gong to 'Little Master'
Matt Wade, Michelle Grattan How do you get India's attention? Give Sachin Tendulkar a gong.
Get used to it: sending jobs overseas is the way of the future
Matt Wade ASIA'S economic transformation has been very good to Australia. And the region's increasingly wealthy consumers are likely to demand a lot more of our goods and services, especially food, education,...
Work winning work-life balance
Matt Wade, Ben Schneiders, Larissa Nicholson If you're in the habit of checking your work inbox before bed, beware.
'Flexibility' leading to unpaid work
Matt Wade and Ben Schneiders If you're in the habit of checking your work inbox before bed, beware.
Tiger on the rise: the nation's ray of sunshine
Matt Wade Successful countries in our region were once dubbed ''Asian Tigers'' because of their super-charged economic growth rates.
Australia has the know-how to boost wellbeing
Matt Wade Australia is in the middle of a wellbeing boom thanks to a surge in the value of the population's collective know-how.
Critics under fire as Swan says economy a world-beater
Peter Martin, Matt Wade THE Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has lashed out at "bizarro" critics as he called on the nation to celebrate a world-beating 21 years of uninterrupted economic growth - more, he says, than the leading...
Australia in a prime position to help
Matt Wade AUSTRALIA'S proximity to many developing countries in Asia means it has a crucial leadership role to play responding to fast-changing humanitarian challenges, the global head of UNICEF says.
