Recreating the energy market

Energy is an essential service, but is it accessible, equitable and affordable for consumers?

Ron Ben-David Professorial Fellow, Business and Economics Faculty Office

Energy is an essential service, but is it accessible, equitable and affordable for consumers?

Business and economy

Growth, capital and human potential all come together in the world of business to create and drive innovation. At Monash we believe in the transformative power of economic growth to improve the world.

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Politics and society

Politics And Society

Politics and society

GST increase on the cards?

Governments will rely on taxation to repair the fiscal damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that will likely mean a GST rise, even if there are better, but politically unpalatable, alternatives.

Remy Davison Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University

Business and economy

Business And Economy

Business and economy

The struggles for small business

Without policies to address the core needs of small business, Victoria's second wave of COVID-19 restrictions will be a killer blow.

John Vaz Senior Lecturer, Banking and Finance

Without policies to address the core needs of small business, Victoria's second wave of COVID-19 restrictions will be a killer blow.

Business

Politics And Society

Business

The flaws in sexual harassment laws

Unlike workplace safety laws, there's nothing in place that requires employers to take action to identify the risk of sexual harassment.

Dominique Allen Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School

Unlike workplace safety laws, there's nothing in place that requires employers to take action to identify the risk of sexual harassment.

Business

Business And Economy

Business

The pink-tinged recession

The mental health of young women is far more sensitive to unemployment than the mental health of young men.

Angela Jackson PhD Candidate, Centre for Health Economics

The mental health of young women is far more sensitive to unemployment than the mental health of young men.

Science

Finding order among the chaos

The COVID-19 crisis has provided an opportunity to test investment tools devised to take into account the long-term impact of climate change on markets.

Hasan Fallahgoul Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics

The COVID-19 crisis has provided an opportunity to test investment tools devised to take into account the long-term impact of climate change on markets.

Business

Politics And Society

Business

COVID's big hit to the AFL

It’s hard to fathom the long-term financial and social impacts that the COVID-19 crisis has wrought on the national AFL competition.

Ross Booth Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics

It’s hard to fathom the long-term financial and social impacts that the COVID-19 crisis has wrought on the national AFL competition.

Sustainability

Politics And Society

Sustainability

Hidden household energy poverty

Many more households face financial hardship and discomfort at home this winter, as we physically self-isolate from work, family and friends due to COVID-19.

Diane Kraal Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation

Many more households face financial hardship and discomfort at home this winter, as we physically self-isolate from work, family and friends due to COVID-19.