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The snow industry's left turn

The snow industry's left turn

Following the previous two difficult snow seasons, the $2.4 billion Australian Snowsport industry faces a host of new challenges to remain profitable. The costs “Skiing is expensive, but it’s still cheaper than therapy” – unknown In the absence of a storied family skiing lineage or wealthy family friends, one

The rise of aquaculture in Australia

The rise of aquaculture in Australia

Four hundred and fifty kilometres inland, the small town of Bilbul in southern New South Wales may seem like an unlikely hub of aquaculture in Australia. Yet its water from the Murrumbidgee River and hospitable climate is resulting in the town quickly becoming an ideal hub of fish farming in

Tech innovation is no panacea

economic growth

Tech innovation is no panacea

The next great driver of growth is shaping up to be centred on the technology industry. We see this in political rhetoric across the developed world, from Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘Ideas Boom’, to Barack Obama’s long-term focus on S.T.E.M. education, to that vague recurring notion of

Out with the Mining in with the...?

Out with the Mining in with the...?

Before the 19th century, Australia’s economic output was made up mostly of sectors involved in basic necessities, such as food, leather and domestic items, with the government acting as the primary producer and consumer. It was only in response to the gold mining boom and growth in the wool

Disruptive innovation

Disruptive innovation

Your friend is in the car with you and you are both trying to locate tonight’s dinner party. After a full ten minutes of searching for the place, you come up with a brilliant idea and ask your friend to ‘Melway it’. For the following five minutes you get

Hollywood's cinematic supremacy

Hollywood's cinematic supremacy

ESSA presents some facts and figures to investigate whether Hollywood’s perceived dominance holds on all fronts of film production and sales.

Pondering pharmaceutical patents

Pondering pharmaceutical patents

There lies a vast degree of difference in the living standards and Human Development Index rankings between countries today. How can we explain this? Research has shown that statistically, it is not attributable to natural endowments but more so to the inherent quality of institutions [2]. This can be measured

A tale of two classes: China’s hukou-based discrimination – Part 2

A tale of two classes: China’s hukou-based discrimination – Part 2

China’s first lawsuit against hukou discrimination commenced in May last year, when a recent graduate from Anhui, Su Min, sued the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, alleging that it had discriminated against her during job recruitment. The Bureau specified that applicants must have a Nanjing

Australia's automotive fallout

Australia's automotive fallout

Following recent announcements by Toyota and Holden that they will be closing their Australian automotive plants by 2017, ESSA has gone off to explore the data behind the local car industry and present some facts and figures for our readers. People are not buying Australian-made cars because they don’t

Planning for a Soft Landing

Planning for a Soft Landing

Like most debates that enter the political sphere, the discussion around the demise of the Australian car manufacturing industry is plagued by emotionally charged falsehoods, meaningless rhetoric and ideological blinkers. A more impartial analysis suggests that while there is a case to be made for the free market to take

Behind the profitability of the video-game industry

consumer theory

Behind the profitability of the video-game industry

Even from a young age, I’ve loved playing video games. I remember the excitement I drew as I savagely ripped into the packaging of my brand-new Game-Boy Colour, wasting no time as I inserted the cartridge for Pokemon Silver into the Gameboy’s empty slot and started playing. Since