Media Highlights – May 2024
From the elective surgery backlog to supermarket loyalty programs, see where Macquarie Business School has been making headlines.

Professor Henry Cutler, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, contributed an article to The Conversation about the causes of and solutions to the elective surgery backlog. This was also covered in The Canberra Times.
Artists as Workers, co-authored by Distinguished Professor David Throsby and Katya Petetskaya, both from the Department of Economics, featured in The Age(online and print versions),The Sydney Morning Herald (online and print versions), The Guardian, Daily Mail, WA Today, The Border Mail, The Canberra Times, Brisbane Times, TheMusic.com, CityNews Canberra (print version), ABC Radio National, ABC Online, and various ABC Radio programs. The report illustrates that financial insecurity is worsening for Australia's professional artists. This was first published on The Lighthouse and The Conversation.
Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Choice on supermarket loyalty programs.
Honorary Professor Geoffrey Kingston, Department of Economics, provided comment to News.com.au about the likelihood of a rate rise from the RBA.
Professor Rahat Munir, Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, was featured in Capital Brief (behind a paywall) and discussed an analysis of the C-Suite at Australia’s biggest listed companies that found an increasing number of CEOs who have previously held CFO roles. Rahat commented that the higher demand for data analysis in the market and the rise of generative artificial intelligence could be a factor of the trend.
Professor Denise Jepsen, Department of Management, provided comment to Australian Ageing Agenda (print version – the online version was published in February) on workers leaving the aged care sector.
Dr Jun Yao, Department of Marketing, provided comment to The New York Times (behind a paywall) on shrinkflation.
Professor Lisa Magnani, Department of Economics, was featured in The Canberra Times (print version) and Property Update and outlined concerns about the federal budget.
Professor Jana Bowden, Department of Marketing, provided comment to Inside Retail Weekly (print version) on misleading sale labels.