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Why the productivity payoff from AI at work is so poor

The technology is ready. The problem is our workplace relations framework requires prior permission to use artificial intelligence.

yesterday 10

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Universities are not businesses and can’t be run like one

When non-profit organisations are managed as if they were for-profit firms, problems emerge. Economists have long warned of this.

14.09.2025 10

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Why AI is an industrial relations challenge for business

Australia will miss the productivity gains from artificial intelligence unless we fix the laws that stop firms from reorganising how work gets done.

18.08.2025 7

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Forget Trump and Harvard. Australian universities have an AI problem

Many students now lack the general knowledge, or even specific knowledge, to know when the AI tools are hallucinating, writes Sinclair Davidson.

29.05.2025 10

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

10 per cent tariffs are what Trump-style mercy looks like

Donald Trump thinks we’ve been subsidising our lifestyles at the expense of his constituents. He is not entirely wrong and doesn’t care that he is...

07.04.2025 3

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson

Sponsorship money doesn’t grow on trees and less popular sports will lose out

As we saw when tobacco advertising was banned, elite sports had little difficulty is attracting new sponsors, but non-elite ones will struggle,...

18.08.2024 1

Financial Review

Sinclair Davidson