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1:36PM | Tuesday, 5 January 2016 | “People are more and more willing to share their homes and goods in the interest of the public than for money.”
12:16PM | Tuesday, 8 December 2015 | Victoria’s tourism office has partnered with the accommodation rental service to encourage tourism in Melbourne’s middle and outer suburbs.
11:06AM | Thursday, 19 November 2015 | The social media giant began tests on a new fundraising feature this morning.
11:54PM | Tuesday, 17 November 2015 | “We want to be breaking down the barriers to people operating in the peer-to-peer economy,” founder Tim Fung says.
10:25PM | Tuesday, 27 October 2015 | The Labor Party’s guidelines on the “sharing economy”, released last week, are a positive development for those concerned with the unfettered growth of the collaborative economy.
10:32PM | Monday, 12 October 2015 | Spacer, the latest venture from Deals Direct co-founder Michael Rosenbaum, has launched, with $1 million of funding from angel investors.
8:30PM | Wednesday, 5 August 2015 | The sharing economy could bring about the end of capitalism: that’s the provocative claim made by economic journalist Paul Mason, among others.
8:05PM | Monday, 3 August 2015 | Protests have been staged against both Uber and Airbnb yet neither platform shows signs of faltering.
3:57PM | Friday, 27 March 2015 | The government didn’t create the sharing economy. But if it over-regulates then it could kill it!
1:42PM | Tuesday, 27 January 2015 | Rapidly growing international tech businesses like Airbnb and Uber should be subjected to stricter regulation to ensure they don’t avoid their tax obligations, according to shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh.
