David Walker

The focus of corporate governance appears to be shifting in response to tough conditions, with social licence…

If scientific fraud represents five per cent of scientific papers, we might well expect that we have a great …

The Federal Government's $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia program has been lauded for its ambition and …

The Rise of The CEO's Chief of Staff

This episode of the Shorewalker On Reports podcast looks at a foundational question: why do we bother to crea…

Professor Paul Cairney says that even when we produce solutions to complex problems, our biggest problem is o…

This year's winner is another challenge to critics of the youngest of the prizes

ABS chief David Gruen used COVID to create great change, gathering new data and uniting data from other sourc…

Ten years into the job, Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan has just unveiled his vision for a technology-driven fu…

The Christmas season reminds Christians and non-Christians alike to give thanks for the year at its close. An…

Anyone who accepts the job of tax commissioner will face doubters. When Chris Jordan FCA took the role in 201…

Sahil Merchant's entrepreneurial skills were sharpened by his experience at Mag Nation. Now at McKinsey, he's…

In 2008, economic historian Niall Ferguson wrote and presented a television show about how finance had evolve…

Experts say the trick to remembering what you've read is to practise recalling it on demand. Pamela Paul, edi…

There are things that can drop on your foot: anvils, skyscraper girders, motherboards, to name a few. And the…

The slow progress with blockchain technology has led to doubts about whether it will ever deliver on its prom…

It's now more than a year since Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud and con…

Is there a more admirable recent business triumph than Netflix? Founder Reed Hastings built a video distribut…

STORY David Walker ILLUSTRATION James Hancock The discipline of asking why is at the core of root cause analy…

Look, this column's about trade policy. Sorry. Trade's a tough subject, devoid of jokes or even mildly amusin…

Next month, we will celebrate 50 years since people first walked on the Moon. The event is probably the third…

As digital businesses grow globally, individual countries are seeking to tax either the profits or the turnov…

"Polling is broken." That was the heading on an Australian newspaper article by pollster John Utting, a few d…

Australians have entered the world of the Post-Election and it's a weird place to loiter; gangs of Coalition …