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We are hearing dire warnings from property interests fighting against changes to negative gearing. But what if Labor’s proposed changes actually support demand for the flood of new properties?
Hadazbe (Hadze) men returning from hunt.
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Australians have become oddly obsessed with our ancestry. Something in our collective psyche as a nation seems to be turning a healthy curiosity about the past into a deep yearning to belong. What’s fuelling…
Labor senator Penny Wong was appointed Australia’s first climate change minister.
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A leading NASA scientist has asked CSIRO to stay in its global network that monitors atmospheric dust and pollution. The data are vital to understand the effects on weather and climate.
In democracies, it’s pretty difficult to bring about any agreement on anything. So when there is general consensus that something is a problem, I think it’s a good idea for us to sit up and pay attention…
A review of studies examining the economic impact of refugees in Australia found no evidence they impose a net cost in the long term.
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Les Norvégiens rendent publics les revenus et les impôts de chaque citoyen. Une tradition qui date de l’indépendance du pays. Une pratique moderne qui mérite d’être étudiée.
Both major parties have a platform that could ultimately facilitate same-sex marriage in Australia.
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Experience in the US serves to highlight the potential long-term economic consequences if Australia fails to legalise same-sex marriage.
Australia’s arrangements with Papua New Guinea and Nauru have not secured sustainable, durable solutions for those asylum seekers found to be refugees.
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Both major parties support offshore processing and boat turnbacks. But public opinion on asylum seekers is not so clear-cut. And nor are the policy alternatives.
When many doctors went through training they would not have learnt adults could suffer from separation anxiety.
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A ‘mortal blow’ to the South Australian theatre scene. ‘Inexplicable’ cuts to centres for photography in two states. The Australia Council’s latest funding decisions have left the arts sector reeling and are evidence of a government indifferent to culture.
Ancient human figures painted in red on a rock shelter in northern Australia (Source: Google Art Project, Griffith University).
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For the first couple of centuries of European occupation of Australia the history of its Indigenous people, as written by white fellas, drew heavily on adjectives like ‘primitive’. As both a white fella…
Is rejecting a proposed tax cut the same as a tax increase?
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Open government and public data could contribute up to A$16 billion per annum to the Australian economy.
Business Council of Australia President Catherine Livingstone and Commonwealth Bank CEO Ian Narev will have to wait for the company tax cut they’ve been asking for.
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