The final stage of the Coalition’s tax cuts, worth more than $240 billion over a decade, is now in the gun sights of many critics, who are calling on Anthony Albanese to dump his promise to deliver it.
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Australia hasn’t tried hard enough to deliver full employment. We are well-placed, if we play to our natural strengths – including having the best solar and wind resources in the developed world.
Mental wealth – the social and economic value of mental health – is the one big item missing from the agenda at the jobs summit.
The latest plan is comprehensive, sober, realistic and the product of considerable consultation. But it’s missing a few key issues if we are to adequately protect consumers.
The new federal education minister has kicked off what could be a major reset of university research funding in Australia, with a review and stern letter to the Australian Research Council.
The government will bring in early legislation for multi-employer bargaining and implement a range of other changes to the industrial relations system.
Raising the age is a response that removes responsibility for poor behaviour, but doesn’t necessarily address the causes underlying youth crimes.
With two months to go until the US mid-terms, President Joe Biden has seen a significant lift in his approval ratings.
Like Australia, the Australian economy is getting older and slower. Revitalisation should start at school.
The proportion of housing that’s unoccupied has actually fallen since the last census, but the key issue is most of these dwellings are not in the areas where the need for housing is greatest.
Electric vehicles were around long before their fossil fuel rivals. They are also set to outlast them because of advantages their advocates noted as early as a century ago.
Word from The Hill: Albanese announces more than $1 billion in federal-state TAFE funding
As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation's politics team.
The smoky mouse was already fighting extinction when a devastating bushfire season decimated 90% of its habitat. Thankfully, all is not lost.
The different reactions this month to the alcohol consumption of two world leaders show how gendered the perceptions around drinking are.
Australian politicians have a history of opting for high-cost, high-emissions desalination projects. The Queensland government is still wary of using the largely untapped resource of recycled water.
Caregivers of children with ear disease said they’d noticed them talking loudly, turning up the TV or devices, being distracted, talking in class, ‘not listening’ or not responding.
LinkedIn called creativity ‘the most important skill in the world’ – it should be central to Labor’s jobs summit.
The surveyed Australians who changed jobs in 2021 switched for less than if they had stayed.
“Business investment visas” are more likely to fund retail businesses than innovation.
A microscope slide that can diagnose cancer, mapping how what we eat affects the environment, and an effort to track bushfire damage are among the winners at Australia’s leading scientific awards.
Biodiversity market schemes can help – but they are not a silver bullet, and can be gamed if poorly designed.
Fewer than 1% of Australian publishing professionals are First Nations and only 8.5% have an Asian cultural identity.
Monica Attard witnessed the death throes of the USSR – and the birth of a brave new world – as the ABC’s Russia foreign correspondent. In 2022, a return to an Orwellian regime looms.
Brown noise sounds like the ocean and some people say it helps them sleep. Here’s what the science actually says.
Like other tragic reformers in history, Gorbachev’s chief legacy is to remind us about what might have been, rather than what subsequently transpired.