Manufacturing

Reboot manufacturing to safeguard sovereign assets

The neoliberal assumptions that have held sway over economic policymaking for a generation must be abandoned, writes Senator Kim Carr The US and China are at each other’s throats, disrupting global supply…

Have you got your Brexit parachute on yet?

Businesses in Leave’s north-east heartland are preparing for an EU deal that – good or bad – will have far-reaching consequences for the local economy, writes Adam Jezard. There was jubilation on…


David Brown: autodidact or freewheeler?

A British businessman has engineered a renaissance in 1960s car design — but it was never this good back then, writes James Fitzgerald. They say a picture speaks a thousand words —…


When regulation is not a dirty word

In a week of political brinkmanship regulations have become a thorny subject, but aligning regulations is a practical way to make relationships work, as is eminently demonstrated in healthcare, John Egan writes….


Politics wrecked the car industry

Now the Australian Coalition Government must decide if it will protect the high-skill high-wage jobs in advance manufacturing that it generated, writes shadow Industry Minister Kim Carr. When General Motor’s Australian subsidiary, Holden,…


Productivity, Productivity, Productivity

Today sees the publication of a comprehensive review of the state of the nation and the potential impacts of Brexit in the OECD’s 2017 economic survey of the UK, writes John Egan….


Work as a vector – in a tale of two carbons

In work we are all combinations of the artist and the photocopier. Here we begin to uncouple the two. Genius, Thomas Edison famously remarked, is one per cent inspiration and 99 per…



Major rise in degree apprenticeships

Thousands more opt for university apprenticeship courses but it is important that quality is not sacrificed in a rush to expand them further, Aban Contractor writes. The number of people opting for…


The big read: Life under the all-seeing “I”

Stefano Ermon of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab speaks to Chief-Exec.com  about the hopes and hazards of a world populated by learning machines   As anyone who has ever tried to get…