Security Sector: Safe as Houses

If you were looking for a section of the market to invest in or to open a business in, then, the security sector is primed and ready for success in Australia. Australians are concerned about their security in the 21C. They are spending money on ensuring the security...

Conscious Consumers in the Marketplace

Can capitalism and the free market change the world for better or only destroy it in the long-run? When you look around at where the real wealth in this country resides you find some unsettling figures that are hard to digest. The top 1% of Australians, actually, own...

Food Businesses: Serving it Up in 2018

ABS figures released recently show that in 2016, average Australian households were spending around $240 per week on food. In total we spent $12.6 billion on meat, $2.6 billion on seafood, $14.9 billion on booze, $1.6 billion on tea and coffee. Welfare recipients...

Home Furnishings: Retail Still Reigns

Household goods retailing fell slightly, by 0.2% in September 2018, according to ABS figures recently released. Furniture sales, however, were unchanged. Department store sales fell by 0.1% in the same month. In earlier data for the 12 months to April 2018, retail...