Businesses become "dead horses" when customers would rather die than buy. When they struggle to be viable and sustain quality and safety, the workforce prefers elsewhere, and there's a growing sense that you could be heading for a human-rights disaster. ...

As far as the Productivity Commission's recommendations go, the Opposition and independent MPs aren't ruling anything in or out. Observers, meanwhile, are hopeful the need for reform will overcome the politics. Darragh O Keeffe reports. The opposition has said it ...