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After a terrible few weeks, the prime minister’s approval rating has plunged. Meanwhile, a redistribution sees Victoria gain a seat and WA lose one.
It will take a long time for the full economic impact of COVID-19 to be known, but a careful scrutiny of labour market outcomes over the next couple of months will shed some light.
Economic inequality is growing across the world, but few are talking about the ways to tackle it.
An April 2017 survey explored Americans’ opinions about government intervention and welfare policies. It found that on average, they want more from their government, but are highly polarised.
On the new boundaries, Labor requires just a five-seat gain to win a majority, while the Coalition needs to gain two seats to retain its majority.
The Coalition braces for the next Newspoll, while a redistribution gives Labor reason to smile, and the Batman byelection results are finalised.
South Africa’s land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing.
South Africa should review its rural development strategy and land reform policy to win the fight against rising poverty.
The neediest suburbs get a much poorer deal in Sydney than in Melbourne. A new study provides a suburb-by-suburb breakdown of state investment, including what facilities and services have been funded.
Wealth inequality is no 21st-century phenomenon. But it was decisively shaped by public policy during the last 100 years as economies emerged from war and redesigned the structures for life.
Any redistribution of electoral boundaries may significantly impact how parties are represented in the parliament. But how does Australia’s system of changing seat boundaries actually work?
In his budget, George Osborne said that we are all in this together. A look at the evidence shows that we’re not.
The belief that land stands only for production of agricultural commodities destined for the market is perverted. The primacy of the market and private property are contrary to the African worldview.
Oxfam is making what might appear to be a manifestly sound moral case when it urges political leaders at the global economic conference at Davos to adopt particular policies to reduce economic inequality…
Since the 1970s, economic orthodoxy has suggested that inequality might be the price worth paying for economic growth. Following a new report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the evidence is…
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Professor Emeritus of Applied Philosophy, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Sussex
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of South Africa
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Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University
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Emeritus Professor, Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Of Economics, University of Sussex
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PhD Student in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate in Housing Studies, University of Sydney
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Deputy Executive Director in Economic Development and Professor of Social Anthropology, Human Sciences Research Council
