Abram El-Sabagh

Oct 29, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski |Cathy Fussell |Abram El-Sabagh |David Adams

If you thought the fight to find a functioning automatic teller machine to dispense cash was getting a lot tougher, spare a thought for the Royal Australian Mint, which is expressly charged with the duty of stamping the nation’s coins, once the favoured currency of transit tickets, parking meters and vending machines.

Oct 27, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Melissa Coade |Cathy Fussell |Abram El-Sabagh |David Adams

Supporters of conservative politics are being urged to hold their political representatives to account for policy ideas that are not evidence-based or thought through to their end point. Journalist Niki Savva joined a panel of peers, including Mark Kenny and Paul Sakkal, to discuss the future of conservative politics in Australia. They argued many half-baked ideas gaining momentum among Opposition ranks are part opportunity, part thoughtlessness, and part horse trading.

Oct 24, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Sean Innis |Cathy Fussell |Abram El-Sabagh |David Adams

We will never know what Australia might have been like had proposals for constitutional change rejected by the people succeeded instead. We will also never know what other changes might have been proposed had Australians proved less cautious about change. Constitutional experts like George Williams and Anne Twomey see Australia’s record of change as problematic.

Oct 23, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Stuart Kells |Cathy Fussell |Abram El-Sabagh |Liz Hobday

In my 2018 book with Ian Gow, The Big Four, we called out several myths about the international system of corporate oversight, including the idea that the four major accounting firms performed a systemically important, public-benefit function and that they were ‘too big to fail’. We noted that the four firms were facing a powerful confluence of forces — in technology, competition, regulation, integrity and the workforce — that made significant change inevitable.

Dec 10, 2023 | themandarin.com.au | Abram El-Sabagh

Measurement and evaluation as we know it have always been around in one way or another. In the 1800s, sailors who were at sea for long periods were prone to a condition where their teeth would fall out and their gums would swell — a disease we now know as scurvy. James Lind, a doctor with the British Royal Navy conducted an experiment: he suspected the cause of the disease was related to a lack of access to fresh fruit. So he set up an experiment.