Last October, we published a Strictly Boardroom article on the 'future of work' (currently a hot topic) in Australia. Australia is often referred to as the 'Lucky Country' after Donald Horne's 1964 book.* Many books and articles on Australia thus play on the theme of luck. One of these was "When the Luck Runs Out – The Future for Australians… Read this post →
Last October in the Strictly Boardroom column we considered the problem of why more Australian's don't do minerals industry PhDs, with a particular focus on geoscience in this case. Though initially this may seem a somewhat niche question, many key figures in the domestic exploration industry are PhDs (though you may not realise it). There is more to this than… Read this post →
It's been a busy year, so I'm still catching you up on this year's Strictly Boardroom pieces on MiningNews.net. In June, we discussed the idea of 'brand' and its relationship to social licence. In particular, efforts by big business and big mining to win over the local populaces, which has been one of the emerging trends this year. There's not… Read this post →
Continuing our catch-up on the May Strictly Boardroom articles, that I write with Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) on MiningNews.net, the next article looks at the different types of mining economy, and what this means for corporate strategy and minerals policy. Borrowing from the World Economic Forum's classification of countries, we break mining economies into three types: factor-driven,… Read this post →
Catching up on May's Strictly Boardroom articles on MiningNews.net by myself and Allan Trench (The University of Western Australia) the first article of the month tackles the 'resource curse'. The article entitled "Resource curse is a misnomer: achieving resource blessing is the future" looks at contradictory data on the subject produced by the World Bank. When looking at the four… Read this post →
