Media Highlights – April 2024
From identity theft risks associated with PayID to the tombstone suburbs of Sydney, see where Macquarie Business School has been making headlines.

Professor Stefan Trueck, Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, was interviewed on ABC Radio and 2SER FM/The Wire about PayID and identity theft. This story was originally published on The Lighthouse.
Dr Nick Garvin, Adjunct Fellow in the Department of Economics, contributed an article to Property Update about the impact of stamp duty on people’s decisions to move house. Dr Garvin also appeared in The West Australian (print version).
Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Yahoo News Australia on the importance of change room design for brand image, after Cotton On put a 'porthole' in its change rooms for staff to look through to help a customer.
Dr Jun Yao, Department of Marketing, was featured in The Berkshire Eagle and discussed consumer awareness and potential backlash against the practice of 'shrinkflation'. Dr Yao warns of its potential to damage brand image.
Honorary Professor Nick Parr, Department of Management, provided comment to The Sydney Morning Herald about areas where the death rate has overtaken the birth rate. Professor Parr also appeared in The Sun-Herald (print version).
Professor Elizabeth Sheedy, Department of Applied Finance, provided comment to The Australian Financial Review on the Commonwealth Bank’s decision to lift the maximum bonus it can pay its home loan lenders.
Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Inside Retail (behind a paywall) about misleading sale labels.
Macquarie University was mentioned in MBA News Australia among universities with highly-ranked MBA programs.
Researchers from the Macquarie University Centre for Economic Impacts of Genomic Medicine (GenIMPACT) received about $1.5m for an NHMRC Partnership Grant to further their research into the costs of Inherited Retinal Diseases (IRDs). An announcement about all the successful partnership grant recipients for the recent cycle was released by the National Health and Medical Research Council.