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Income poverty statistics tell us relatively little about why Australian children live in poverty, or how to alleviate it. But housing plays a critical part in the problem.
Both the government and opposition’s proposed reforms to the superannuation system will target generous tax breaks given mostly to wealthy retirees.
Professor Sir Michael Marmot explains how the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, determine their risk of poor health.
Schools need to adapt and evolve in changing circumstances and conditions as their students’ demographic composition shifts.
How do inequities of wealth and income manifest in Australia? And what are the implications for the nation’s health?
The 2008 financial crisis exposed major gaps in central banks’ operations. New features like quantitative easing have since emerged.
A row between South Africa’s finance minister and the country’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations has prompted academics to pen an open letter asking President Jacob Zuma to intervene.
Money and resources in Latin America often don’t reach those who need them most – and criminal gangs are on hand to take advantage.
There is a view that philanthropy from super-wealthy individuals, rather than government policy, will be the force that changes the world for the better. But this seems unlikely in Australia.
The ever-widening gap between CEO and average worker pay has its roots in collective action by executives.
Australia has become collectively richer but much more unequal in recent decades.
Income inequality and political polarization have both surged in recent decades and are the worst they’ve ever been. Is one causing the other?
One in four people experience a mental health problem in any give year.
The first Renaissance struggled with the same doubts and uncertainties and blinding possibilities that we face today. Any gains we make will have to be achieved amid relentless shocks.
Sydney’s Sirius building - a brutalist classic, providing public housing with waterfront views - will soon be gone. Its loss speaks volumes about our contemporary values and architecture’s shift away from utopianism.
Pell Grants, the federal aid program for low-income students, are down to covering only 30 percent of tuition, from 80 percent in the 1970s.
The struggle for equal rights for black citizens in the U.S. today is backed by the promise of the 14th Amendment. A historian takes us back to the grassroots movements that led to its passage.
The current system is causing inefficiencies in housing markets, but governments seem unwilling to act.
Superannuation changes are sorely needed because recent data shows only a small number of wealthy Australians are accumulating wealth through it.
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director: Southern Centre for Inequality Studies., University of the Witwatersrand
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Senior Fellow in History, UNSW Sydney
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
