Knowledge Centre
Items on this page are a taste only of the thousands of articles, podcasts, and videos housed in our Knowledge CentrePlease login for full access. If your organisation is a Centre member and you do not have log in details, please email thecentre@accpa.com.au. If you have forgotten your password, you can reset it here.
Australia is about to set its first full employment target – and it will define people’s lives for decades
01 August 2023Stand by for one of the most important decisions Treasurer Jim Chalmers and the Albanese government will make.
That decision is to commit future governments and the Reserve Bank to full employment, and, more importantly, spell out what that means. The Australian government hasn’t wholeheartedly and publicly committed itself to full...
socio political environment
UK banks back in political crosshairs after Farage fiasco
Sinead Cruise, Iain Withers and Lawrence White, Reuters, 31 July 2023After more than a decade trying to rehabilitate their image since an era of bailouts and mis-selling scandals, Britain's banks are once again a target for public - and political - ire.
What started as a dispute between former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and NatWest-owned Coutts over the closure of his accounts has spiralled into a...
socio political environment
crisis management
“The news feeds do not sag”: A look at Ukraine’s local news landscape, more than a year into the war
07 June 2023Most of the publishers surveyed now view “external migrants” — Ukrainians who’ve left the country — as their target audience.
socio political environment
Audience loyalty may not be what we think
Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis, Nieman Journalism Lab, 27 April 2023How participatory journalism became a taken-for-granted norm, how news use can help mitigate misinformation beliefs, and the limits of live fact-checking.
media relations
socio political environment
What business needs to know about the new US cybersecurity strategy
Sarah Kreps and Amelia C. Arsenault, 14 April 2023In March 2023, the Biden administration released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy, which makes it clear that the time for private companies voluntarily opting into cybersecurity has long passed. Instead, the new strategy promises to support new regulatory frameworks that will shift liability and create incentives for private firms to...
cybersecurity
Corporate Australia just received a glowing profit report card, but the outlook is not as rosy
Rachel Pupazzoni, ABC, 12 September 2022Corporate Australia just received a glowing profit report card, but the outlook is not as rosy...
socio political environment
Airfare increase the highest in a decade and flights fuller than ever, ACCC report warns
Jade Toomey, ABC, 07 September 2022The cost of an an airfare has increased by more than half since April, the country's consumer watchdog has warned...
socio political environment
Johnson & Johnson will discontinue talc-based baby powder in 2023
Melissa Maykin, ABC, 14 August 2022Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling talc-based baby powder in 2023, as it transitions its popular, but controversial, global product to a cornstarch base. The move comes two years after it ended US sales due to thousands of consumer safety...
socio political environment
Belonging, inclusion, and connection: the first steps in getting diversity right at work
This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 18 May 2022Australia’s renowned for its multiculturalism. But when it comes to the workplace and leadership positions, that diversity isn’t represented. So, what’s going on? In part two of this special series, host Lisa Leong dives into some solutions to improve diversity and inclusion at work to see Australia's multiculturalism reflected in leadership...
socio political environment
Why working from anywhere isn’t realistic
The Economist, 17 May 2022Home has now also become a place of work. “Working from anywhere” envisages a completely untethered existence - the Bahamas, Malta and Costa Rica are now offering digital nomad visas, and "working from anywhere" has been endorsed by Airbnb.
socio political environment