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Earning Social License Underground
As underground mining continues to expand throughout the world, tough questions have emerged around the theme of social license. Markets…
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Why BMW is Pushing the Pedal on Sustainable Mining
In the third millennium BC, Egyptians used the process of fire-setting to break ore. They would start fires against a…
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Apple Wants to Bypass Commercial Mining
The iPhone is Apple’s most successful product to date; but there’s a problem. The rising demand for rare earth metals…
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What Sports Analytics Says About Business
Remember when watching sport on TV was a simple experience? Graphics were basic and camera angles were limited. Broadcasters might…
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Directing the Flow of Information from Home
The Melbourne Telephone Exchange commenced operations in 1880, when the city’s population was around 280,000. It wasn’t as big as…
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A.I. Recruitment: How Far Will It Go?
Before the internet, professional recruiters played a different game. There were events in hotel conference rooms, job fairs in university…
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Quality Outplacement: More Than a Polite Phrase
Restructuring. Corporate realignment. Downsizing. Rightsizing. In today’s rapidly shifting business landscape, it’s only natural that outplacement should assume a number…
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The Great Consolidation: How Will Smaller Hotels Survive?
Marriott acquired Starwood in 2016 for A$22 billion. Accor acquired Fairmont Raffles and Swissotel in 2016 for A$4.5 billion. IHG…
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Why Blockchain Technology Could Change Mining
There was a time when terms like “smart shunt” and “remote blaster” held no meaning at all in the mining…
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China’s Hotel Market in the 2020s
The confetti will drop on 4,160 new hotel openings around the world in 2020. Australia is number six on the…
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To Become Excellent Hotel Managers, We Need Creativity and Vision
In the whole history of professional hospitality – and that’s a reasonably long history – I don’t think there has…
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Hotel Managers: Your Health Makes a Difference
The global wellness industry is worth around AUD $6 trillion, according to many estimates – but you probably don’t need…
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Why Mining Operations Need to Improve Water Management
There was a time when environmental ethos was more of a footnote to the mining industry. The government set standards,…