The bungled 60 Minutes child abduction attempt on a suburban Beirut street last month illustrates just how easily things can suddenly and unexpectedly go wrong for a company and how senior management can suddenly find themselves in hot water. On 30 April, The Australian newspaper reported on the legal problems facing the Nine Network and its senior management in […]
With Australia’s 2 million small and medium-sized businesses making up more than 95% of all businesses in Australia (employing around 70% of the country’s workforce) the importance of SMEs to the Australian economy is clear. With the important role SMEs collectively play in the Australian economy, it’s vital therefore that individually, small and medium-sized businesses […]
Last week, it was reported that the grieving parents of a Scots College schoolboy who drowned while on a school camp in 1999 were suing the prestigious Sydney school for a record compensation claim of $109 million for the emotional and financial devastation suffered. Regardless of the merits of this individual case, the record claim […]
