AFR interactive artist Les Hewitt, my frequent partner-in-crime, and I have done some work with our award-winning investigative journalist Neil Chenoweth on a series of stories about profit shifting by multinational corporations. The interactives in the stories are designed to complement Neil’s forensic examination of each firm’s accounts. A lot of…
Accounting students, the jobs market and the Skilled Occupation List
I’ve written a series of stories looking at the job market for accounting students and graduates, the inclusion of the field on a list of in-demand occupations and the state of the jobs market. It is an area where there is big money at stake (international students are a critical cash…
Wealthy will weather property downturn
There is a fierce debate about housing prices in Australia, with the arguments ranging from property prices being wildly overvalued through to supply merely catching up with demand. The Reserve Bank has been conservative in their commentary, and their biannual Financial Stability Review outlined a more nuanced picture of the housing market.…
Interactive: Budget Explorer
The Australian Financial Review’s Budget Explorer was designed to help make sense of the data deluge that accompanies every federal budget. The interactive features five modules tackling a different major element of the budget. It was produced with the fine data visualisation experts from Small Multiples. Major Initiatives and Savings…
The Wall
The Wall is a social media news site that automatically provides a real-time view of what is important to Australians, Americans and Brits by monitoring, analysing and publishing the most discussed topics on social media networks as they occur.