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The COVID Economy (Jul '20 …)
- High-income earners to reap 88% of Coalition's tax cuts by 2021-22 (Oct '20)
- Jim Chalmers says two-thirds of the debt in the budget was borrowed before the start of the pandemic. Is he correct? (Aug '20)
- Migration to Australia has fallen off a cliff – will it take the economy with it? (Aug '20)
- Post-COVID, there’ll be less of a reason to cut company tax than before (Jul '20)
- Gambling on the stock market: are retail investors even playing to win? (Jul '20)
- Australian business has taken only $26bn of $150bn in cheap credit from Reserve Bank (Jul '20)
- Cycling and walking can help drive Australia’s recovery – but not with less than 2% of transport budgets (Jul '20)
- Companies receiving jobkeeper have laid off more than 700,000 excluded workers (Jul '20)
- The Australian government's decision to cut benefits is based on feelings, not facts (Jul '20)
- 'In the eye of the storm': Bond investors see trouble ahead (Jul '20)
- Treasury cautioned Scott Morrison over cutting jobkeeper payment (Jul '20)
- The JobKeeper Payment: Three-month review Australian Treasury (Jul '20)
- Australia sells A$17 bln of new 2025 bond, sees solid demand (Jul '20)
- Coalition to overhaul jobkeeper and jobseeker Covid-19 subsidies by cutting support rates (Jul '20)
- Axing jobseeker Covid-19 payment would push 650,000 Australians into poverty, thinktank reports (Jul '20)
- Death of the travel agent: Covid-19 an existential threat for an industry without 'any product to sell' (Jul '20)
- Forget JobSeeker. In our post-COVID economy, Australia needs a ‘liveable income guarantee’ instead (Jul '20)
- And now for the bad news: our record unemployment is actually worse than it looks (Jul '20)
- 'We don't know how many time-bombs are ticking': Australia's rent deferral debt trap (Jul '20)
- From Brazil's farms to Melbourne's cafes, coronavirus is crippling the coffee industry (Jul '20)
- International students turn to foodbanks as casual work dries up in second Melbourne lockdown (Jul '20)
- As Victoria grapples with a coronavirus outbreak, all eyes are on the Government's second 'wave' of support (Jul ’20)
- Church leaders join environment groups to call for increase to JobSeeker payments (Jul ’20)
- Purple House and MMT (Modern Monetary Theory): new money creation is real, it is not a “leftist” conspiracy (Jul ’20)
- Women twice as likely as men to be 'discouraged workers' after Covid-19 job loss (Jul ’20)
- Jobseeker should stay 'stronger for longer' for those excluded from other payments, report says (Jul ’20)
- Forget JobSeeker.In our post-COVID economy, Australia needs a ‘liveable income guarantee’ instead (Jul ’20)
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The COVID Economy (… Jul '20)
- Why stocks are soaring even as coronavirus cases surge, at least 20 million remain unemployed and the US sinks into recession (Jun ’20)
- Coronavirus means changes for your workplace — and the commute to get there (Jun ’20)
- Coronavirus economic recovery committee looks set to push Australia towards gas-fired future (Jun ’20)
- Do the grandchildren really pay the debt? The problem with Scott Morrison’s plan for recovery, and MMT (Jun ’20)
- Coronavirus reveals the precarious position of women in 'disposable workforce' (Jun ’20)
- Call for $4bn stimulus that would create 50,000 jobs and care for the environment (Jun ’20)
- 'Real vulnerability': Qantas job cuts show Covid-19 will change the future of work (Jun ’20)
- Federal government believes jobseeker rate could be putting people off work (Jun ’20)
- Covid-19 recession causing job losses in older workers and housing stress in young (Jun ’20)
- Australia is defeating coronavirus but remains at risk of losing through an 'economic own goal' (Jun ’20)
- Australia must reject austerity and embrace targeted spending to beat this recession (Jun ’20)
- COVID-19 provides a rare chance for Australia to set itself apart from other regional powers. It can create a Pacific ‘bubble’ (Jun ’20)
- There may not be enough skilled workers in Australia’s pipeline for a post-COVID-19 recovery (Jun ’20)
- Australia loses 227,000 more jobs, taking unemployment to 7.1% (Jun ’20)
- Mortgage deferral, rent relief and bankruptcy: what you need to know if you have coronavirus money problems (Jun ’20)
- Covert-19: Government stacks Covid Commission with oil and gas mates, cosy deals follow (May ‘20)
- JobSeeker welfare recipients fear end of life-changing Coronavirus Supplement (May ‘20)
- IMF warns against cutting Covid-19 support too early as Coalition considers Australia's measures (Jun ’20)
- Australian business groups warn of coming cliff when free childcare and jobkeeper end (Jun ’20)
- Jobkeeper has failed, and it’s hitting women and young people the hardest (Jun ’20)
- While Josh Frydenberg personally consulted the Merivale CEO about JobKeeper’s design, court documents detail the huge underpayment suit his pub empire is facing. (Jun ’20)
- Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it. (Jun ’20)
- The end of tourism? (Jun ’20)
- Renters in arrears fear an eviction backlash when government coronavirus protections end (Jun ’20)
- The PM loves jobs and hates welfare … but is pushing more people onto the dole (Jun ’20)
- Logan business owners struggling to stay afloat, prompting plea to extend JobKeeper subsidy (Jun ’20)
- Morrison warns every job cannot be saved signalling preparations to withdraw Covid-19 stimulus spending (Jun ’20)
- 'Who cares about the AAA rating?': the Covid financial crisis calls for reset, not recovery (Jun ’20)
- Who Morrison is looking after (Jun ’20)
- Gas ‘completely dominated’ discussion about Covid-19 recovery, commission adviser says (Jun ’20)
- Just one of six Covid commission members volunteers to release conflict-of-interest declaration (Jun ’20)
- Can HomeBuilder be used as a deposit? Questions leave prospective house buyers confused (Jun ’20)
- Removing jobkeeper and welfare boost 'high risk' for businesses and households (Jun ’20)
- HomeBuilder: a sneaky plan for the Coalition’s franking credits crew to collar the pension? (Jun ’20)
- Corona-smug The PM is getting off lightly after a series of blunders (Jun ’20)
- Homebuilder was a blunder - spend the money retrofitting social housing instead (Jun ’20)
- Don’t count on that tradie-led recovery. The latest package is nothing to build on (Jun ’20)
- The housing boom propelled inequality, but a coronavirus housing bust will skyrocket it (Jun ’20)
- Migrant workers call for coronavirus support amid fears of 'crisis situation' (Jun ’20)
- HomeBuilder misses a chance to make our homes perform better for us and the planet (Jun ’20)
- 'We will lose a generation': why Australia must fix apprentice and job training post-Covid (Jun ’20)
- HomeBuilder might be the most-complex least-equitable construction jobs program ever devised (Jun ’20)
- Coalition government's grants for renovations and building criticised by economists and backbench MPs (Jun ’20)
- The $688m HomeBuilder scheme seems like a boost for homeowners — but it comes with some serious caveats (Jun ’20)
- Scott Morrison’s HomeBuilder scheme is classic retail politics but lousy economics (Jun ’20)
- Government refuses to release conflict-of-interest disclosures from Covid commission members (Jun ’20)
- Covid commission chief distances himself from leaked report on massive gas expansion (Jun ’20)
- Why even the best case for jobs isn’t good. We’ll need more JobKeeper (Jun ’20)
- Building back better? The government’s pandemic response is taking a familiar shape (Jun ’20)
- Australia in its first recession in 29 years as March quarter GDP shrinks (Jun ’20)
- Scrapping jobkeeper too early risks Australian economy falling off a cliff, Covid inquiry told (May ’20)
- More than 70% of academics at some universities are casuals. They’re losing work and are cut out of JobKeeper (May ’20)
- $60 billion JobKeeper shortfall should be spent, economists argue (May ’20)
- Coronavirus recovery: public transport is key to avoid repeating old and unsustainable mistakes (May ’20)
- Morrison says support measures are only temporary 'medication' for sick economy (May ’20)
- Business, unions and green groups call for sustainable Covid-19 recovery with clean energy transition (May ’20)
- Australia's Reserve Bank fuels call for post-pandemic renewables push (May ’20)
- Why is the Covid commission backing a fertiliser plant as its top recovery project? (May ’20)
- Scott Morrison's National Cabinet must keep its eyes on JobKeeper as coronavirus damage worsens (May ’20)
- JobKeeper: Scott Morrison says $1500 payment won’t be extended (May ’20)
- Can Australia build its way out of the coronavirus economic slump, with public housing the priority? (May ’20)
- As COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease, now is the time to support Indigenous business (May ’20)
- 'The cliff': what happens when Australia's coronavirus stimulus runs out of road? (May ’20)
- Finding agreement on economic fix (May ’20)
- How do you lose $60bn and where does this leave Australia? (May ’20)
- The Government’s Covid Commission is stacked with fossil fuel company executives and gas “kingmakers” whose vision for Australia is framed by pipelines and fracking wells. (May ’20)
- Treasury revises JobKeeper’s cost down by massive $60 billion, sparking calls to widen eligibility (May ’20)
- Jobkeeper to cost $60bn less than originally forecast due to 'reporting error' (May ’20)
- Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge (May ’20)
- Business, unions and green groups call for sustainable Covid-19 recovery with clean energy transition (May ’20)
- Nation-building investments at risk if early superannuation withdrawals continue (May ’20)
- Coronavirus combines with end to interest-only home loans in big hit coming for investors, experts warn (May ’20)
- Past pandemics show how coronavirus budgets can drive faster economic recovery (May ’20)
- Coronavirus rental hardship 'kicked down the road' to spring of 'carnage' (May ’20)
- Zali Steggall increasingly concerned about Morrison government's Covid Commission (May ’20)
- It could take two years for the economy to recover from the coronavirus pandemic (May ’20)
- 'It’s just not worth opening': restaurants in Australia can trade again, but will they? (May ’20)
- Post-war reconstruction involved taxing richest – it could be a model for building a low carbon economy (May ’20)
- The real reason our shelves were empty (May ’20)
- COVID-19: Australia’s fiscal response is now among the biggest in the world (Apr ’20)
- How come Australia suddenly has billions of dollars to pay for welfare? (Apr ’20)
- Unlocking Australia: What can benefit-cost analysis tell us? (Apr ’20)
- Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers (Apr ’20)
- Australian job loss tracker: the industries and places most affected by the coronavirus crisis (Apr ’20)
- Eradicating the COVID-19 coronavirus is also the best economic strategy (Apr ’20)
- JobKeeper wage system pushing small businesses to the edge (Apr ’20)
- Grattan on Friday: If Scott Morrison is true to his word, October’s budget could be a doozy (Apr ’20)
- Morrison flags company tax cuts, IR reform as key to COVID-19 economic recovery (Apr ’20)
- That estimate of 6.6 million Australians on JobKeeper, it tells us how it can be improved (Apr ’20)
- Trouble with gas: the Coalition is betting on the fossil fuel for recovery – but the sums don't add up (Apr ’20)
- The next employment challenge from coronavirus: how to help the young (Apr ’20)
- Coronavirus recovery is just around the corner — if the stock market can be believed (Apr ’20)
- Race to shape COVID-19 recovery (Apr ’20)
- COVID-19 stimulus may not provide the hoped for boost as JobKeeper tensions mount (Apr ’20)
- Treasury’s plan for a new economy (Apr ’20)
- We do not have to worry about paying off the coronavirus debt for generations (Apr ’20)
- Record-breaking government bond auction proves the world is 'bullish' on Australia (Apr ' 20)
- The last thing companies should be doing right now is paying dividends (Apr ' 20)
- Morrison has changed tack against his tribal instincts. But what happens after coronavirus? (Apr ’20)
- We are witnessing a cultural bloodbath in Australia that has been years in the making (Apr '20)
- Don’t be fooled by Morrison’s benevolence – soon it’s back to tax cuts and smaller government (Apr '20)
- Vital Signs: Scott Morrison is steering in the right direction, but we’re going to need a bigger boat (Apr ‘20)
- Morrison reminds us nothing lasts forever – especially the coronavirus spending spree (Apr '20)
- Australia's net debt likely to jump to more than $500 billion as massive coronavirus stimulus unleashed (Mar ‘20)
- From tight purse strings to massive fiscal firepower: the Coalition’s staggering transformation (Mar ‘20)
- To get out of this well we are going to have to think like central planners (Mar ‘20)
- The coronavirus' economic fallout has its own momentum as RBA makes extraordinary intervention (Mar ‘20)
- Which jobs are most at risk from the coronavirus shutdown? (Mar ‘20)
- Coronavirus and Spanish flu: economic lessons to learn from the last truly global pandemic (mar ’20)
- Scott Morrison needs to target his spending at significant problems or he will only be remembered for debt (Mar ‘20)
- Coronavirus crisis shows capitalism at its worse (Mar '20)
- Under coronavirus, pro-market ideologies are overturned around the world. But it's too little, too late (Mar ‘20)
- The coronavirus crisis may lead to a new way of economic thinking (Mar '20)
- Remember Josh Frydenberg scoffing at a 'wellbeing budget'? He's not laughing any more (Mar '20)
- With the coronavirus, here's what's really going to matter for the Australian economy (Mar '20)
- A hundred years on, will there be another Great Depression? (Mar ‘ 20)
- Christian Porter doesn’t understand insecure work can be scarier than coronavirus (Mar ’20)
- Four experts on how coronavirus will wallop Australia's economy – and what the government must do (Mar ’20)
- This is more than a health crisis: here’s a 10-point plan for avoiding recession (Mar '20)
- Coronavirus is not the villain: Australia’s economy was already on a precipice (Mar '20)
- Coronavirus is the Coalition’s GFC – but will Morrison respond as Rudd did? (Mar ’20)
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Business & Economy
- The government has just sold $15 billion of 31-year bonds. But what actually is a bond? (Jul ’20)
- Increasing the childcare subsidy will help struggling families — and the economy (Jul ’20)
- There’s serious talk about a “job guarantee”, but it’s not that straightforward (Jul ’20)
- Modern monetary theory: the rise of economists who say huge government debt is not a problem (Jul ’20)
- The spending splurge matters, regardless of what modern monetary theory says (Jul ’20)
- What is Modern Monetary Theory and is it THE answer? (Jul ’20)
- Vital Signs: Stamp duty is an economic drag. Here’s how to move to a better system (Jul ’20)
- Jobs deficit drives army of daily commuters out of Western Sydney (Jun ’20)
- Can government actually predict the jobs of the future? (Jun ’20)
- Yes, Australia is in a recession – but worse is yet to come (Jun ’20)
- The government still treats debt like it is economic poison but now is the time to invest (Jun ’20)
- Australia made: the Coalition shares the blame for the dire state of our manufacturing (May ’20)
- Vital Signs: Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules (May ’20)
- Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up (May ’20)
- After barley, what next? Australian industries exposed if China trade tensions persist (May ’20)
- Why has China slapped tariffs on Australian barley and what can Australia do about it? (May ’20)
- China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around (May ’20)
- We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants (May ’20)
- Labor calls for audit of government debt which has doubled under the Coalition (May ’20)
- Australian businesses call for climate crisis and virus economic recovery to be tackled together (May ’20)
- Are Australia's big four banks equipped for recession? (May ’20)
- Some Facts About Debt …per capita (Apr ’20)
- Virgin Australia was never going to last (Apr ’20)
- Australia's net debt likely to jump to more than $500 billion as massive coronavirus stimulus unleashed (Mar ’20)
- NBN offering not good enough for 21st Century Australia (Mar ’20)
- Fibre-to-node NBN users often not getting speeds they're paying for, watchdog says (Feb ’20)
- If Australia's resources were taxed the way Norway's are, we could secure the future of our schools (Feb '20)
- RBA governor Philip Lowe says further interest rate cuts inevitable as he calls for government action (Oct '19)
- Reserve Bank governor calls for more federal spending to boost economy (Jul '19)
- Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology (may '19)
- Australia has a high rate of casual work and many jobs face automation threats: OECD (Apr '19)
- Labor will prioritise an NBN ‘digital inclusion drive’ – here’s what it should focus on (Apr '19)
- Government's empty agenda has been hidden in plain sight, but Reserve Bank has made it clear it's time to act (Feb '19)
- The unemployment rate doesn't go back to normal after a recession – there are long-term effects (Mar ‘20)
- FactCheck: has Australia’s net debt doubled under the current government? (Aug ’18)
- With borrowing effectively free, why be scared of government debt? (Mar ’20)
- Older, wiser but underemployed: no longer can it be treated with indifference (Feb '20)
- Australia to overtake Qatar on LNG field by 2020 – EnergyQuest (Feb '20)
- FactCheck: has Australia’s net debt doubled under the current government? (Aug ’18)
- Is the economy stirring? Sorry, no. Things could get even worse (Feb '20)
- Former productivity commissioner attacks Coalition's economic plan (Jan '20)
- Fleecing Australia: Tax Office data dump shows the usual large culprits paying no tax (Dec '19)
- Secrets and Lies: how franking credits stole the tax bonanza (Dec '19)
- Ten companies pay 45% of all corporate tax in Australia (Dec '18)
- Government's empty agenda has been hidden in plain sight, but Reserve Bank has made it clear it's time to act (Jul '19)
- Fact Check: Will $77 billion worth of Coalition tax cuts go to people earning more than $180,000? (Jun '19)
- 'Staggering': $90 billion lost in Resources Tax (Mar '18)
- Beware tax cuts for 'Middle Australia'. Above-average earners benefit most (May '16)
- Negative Gearing: we're becoming a nations of landlords and serfs (Mar '16)
- A history of Australian budget surpluses and deficits (May '14)
- Economic Growth: An Unnecessary Evil (Nov '12)
- ABC has for too long been unwilling to push back against interference – at its journalists’ expense (Aug '20)
- Australian television a whitewash as Anglo-Celtic presenters dominate newsrooms (Aug '20)
- A primary school–aged child in court surely represents the ultimate failure of society, yet Australia won’t raise the age of criminal responsibility (Jul '20)
- Covid-19 Discussion Paper (Jul '20)
- Covid-19 Discussion Paper (Jul '20)
- How people are helping Victorian housing tower residents under coronavirus stay-at-home orders (Jul '20)
- The presses stop: final newspapers printed in dozens of Australian towns (Jun '20)
- Regional Australia Population Mobility Report (Jun '20)
- HMelbourne Institute (University of Melbourne) HILDA Project Reports
- HILDA Discussion Paper Series … the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, (HILDA), is a nationally representative longitudinal study of Australian households
- Powerful and well-connected crowd out anti-gambling campaigners (Jun '20)
- Fear of a four-day working week, in light of Jacinda Ardern's comments (May '20)
- Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? Thomas Piketty explores the prospect (may '20)
- (Vale Jack Mondey) The green bans proved jobs-vs-environment is a sham (may '20)
- How the coronavirus pandemic could shift the multicultural make-up of our society (Apr '20)
- We are witnessing a cultural bloodbath in Australia that has been years in the making (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus is a human crisis beyond most of our scariest dreams – we will need to restart our society (Apr '20)
- It's time to challenge everything, so what will we create from this savage lesson? (Apr '20)
- Australia can be a better, fairer place after the coronavirus, if we're willing to fight for it (Apr '20)
- More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself
- Coronavirus gets personal: crying in the streets as Australian jobs vanish and lives change forever (Mar '20)
- What kind of society do we want to become? - Hugh Mackay (Feb '20)
- White, male and straight – how 30 years of Australia Day speeches leave most Australians out (Jan '20)
- New research shows prejudice still high in Australia, but many people seeking to promote social inclusion (Dec '19)
- There’s a reason you’re feeling no better off than 10 years ago. Here’s what HILDA says about well-being (Jul '19)
- Banking Royal Commission: the real problem is how we value executives and workers (Feb '19)
- It’s time to vote for happiness and well-being, not mere economic growth. Here’s why: (may '19)
- Research On Degrowth - Annual Review of Environment and Resources (Oct '18)
- After the budget: shh! Australia's era of artistic silencing begins (May '15)
Australian Society
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Arts
- Arts industry could wait three more months for Coalition's $250m Covid-19 rescue package (Aug ’20)
- Global arts crisis: how does Australia’s federal stimulus compare? (Jul ’20)
- The arts needed a champion – it got a package to prop up the major players 100 days later (Jun ’20)
- 'How do we recover?': Australian arts sector fears rescue package won't be enough to survive (Jun ’20)
- Australian arts and culture to get $250m rescue package from Morrison government (Jun ’20)
- ‘I had to be manic’: Tara June Winch on her unmissable new novel – and surviving Andrew Bolt (Jun ’20)
- How can we reimagine the arts post-Covid when we're all so bone-achingly tired? (Jun ’20)
- The government says artists should be able to access JobKeeper payments. It’s not that simple (May ’20)
- Australia's cultural sector is haemorrhaging money, but the federal government isn't interested in stemming the flow (may ’20)
- A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic (may ’20)
- The collapse of Carriageworks (may ’20)
- Coronavirus: 3 in 4 Australians employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs (Apr ’20)
- A beginner’s guide to reading and enjoying poetry (apr ’20)
- Artists shouldn’t have to endlessly demonstrate their value. Coalition leaders used to know it (Apr ’20)
- We are witnessing a cultural bloodbath in Australia that has been years in the making (Apr ’20)
- In times of crisis, we turn to the arts. Now the arts is in crisis – and Scott Morrison is silent (Mar ‘20)
- Remember the arts? Departments and budgets disappear as politics backs culture into a dead end (Dec ‘19)
- After the budget: shh! Australia’s era of artistic silencing begins (May ’15)
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Domestic Violence
- If you’re thinking of leaving a violent partner, you need a financial plan. This toolkit can help (Aug '20)
- Sydney dentist Preethi Reddy was murdered by former partner, coroner finds (Jun '20)
- Victoria Police, minister apologise to domestic violence victim after 'appalling' privacy breach (Jun '20)
- Woeful Treatment of Victims of Domestic Abuse … National Homeless Collective (May '20)
- It’s time ‘coercive control’ was made illegal in Australia (May '20)
- Australian experts fear coronavirus spike in domestic abuse as Global Drug Survey probes users (May '20)
- How do we keep family violence perpetrators ‘in view’ during the COVID-19 lockdown? (Apr '20)
- Mums with an intellectual disability already risk family violence and losing their kids. Coronavirus could make things worse (Apr '20)
- Victoria police respond to family violence risk during 'very stressful time' of coronavirus (Apr '20)
- Covid 19 coronavirus: Code words at supermarkets possible for victims escaping violence - NZ (Apr '20)
- Court of Appeal rules in favour of domestic violence victim who fled from Australia to New Zealand with her child (Apr '20)
- Coronavirus and ‘domestic terrorism’: how to stop family violence under lockdown (Apr '20)
- We Need Nighties (Mar '20)
- Australian government pumps $1bn into health and family violence services as coronavirus spreads (Mar '20)
- 'Covid-19 will slam the door shut': Australia's family services brace for domestic violence spike (Mar ‘20)
- Domestic violence: women's safety advocates say Coalition is ignoring experts (Mar ‘20)
- Why do men kill their families? Here’s what the research says (Feb '20)
- Raped, tracked, humiliated: Clergy wives speak out about domestic violence (Nov '17)
- A tragic reality: Domestic violence is the main cause of homelessness in Australia (Jun '17)
- Domestic violence: Report finds 'clear link' between media reporting and understanding of issue (Jun '17)
- Framing Deadly Domestic Violence: Why the Media’s Spin Matters in Newspaper Coverage of Femicide (Feb '13)
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Public Health
- How to avoid cars clogging our cities during coronavirus recovery (Jun '20)
- Drivers v cyclists: it’s like an ethnic conflict, which offers clues to managing ‘road wars’ (Jun '20)
- As coronavirus restrictions ease, here’s how you can navigate public transport as safely as possible (Jun '20)
- Beware jeans, avoid the gutter, keep your saddle dry … 10 tips to make cycling a delight (Jun '20)
- Call to fast-track bike lanes to boost jobs and take advantage of lockdown-induced bicycle sales (May '20)
- Cycling without a helmet in these suburbs the 'quickest route to police search' (May '20)
- We’ve known about pandemic health messaging since 1918. So when it comes to coronavirus, what has Australia learnt? (Apr '20)
- 'Bicycles are the new toilet paper': bike sales boom as coronavirus lockdown residents crave exercise (Apr '20)
- The Guardian view on Covid-19 and transport: walk to the future (Apr '20)
- Who’s most affected on public transport in the time of coronavirus? (Mar ‘20)
- Calls to put public health at centre of Sydney’s transport conundrum (Dec ’19)
- Will we be healthier and suffer less from pollution if more cycleways and footpaths are built? … aap Factcheck (Feb ’19)
- Rising cyclist death toll is mainly due to drivers, so change the road laws and culture (Sep ’18)
- Cycling key to unlocking congestion: City of Melbourne discussion paper (Jun ’18)
- Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity (Aug ’17)
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Foreign Students
- 'A huge hit': foreign students may shun Australia after their treatment during Covid-19 crisis (May ’20)
- COVID-19 increases risk to international students’ mental health. Australia urgently needs to step up (May ’20)
- 90,000 foreign graduates are stuck in Australia without financial support: it’s a humanitarian and economic crisis in the making (Apr ’20)
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Racism / Far Right
- As the Christchurch shooter faces sentencing, what has Australia learned about far-right terror? (Aug ’20)
- 'We'll see you after dark': how Melbourne police targeted African men in high-rises (Jul ’20)
- Today show dumps Pauline Hanson for 'divisive' remarks about Melbourne public housing residents (Jul ’20)
- A Disability Care Provider Has Apologised For Telling “Dark-Skinned” People Not To Apply (Jun ’20)
- Coronavirus Victoria: experts warn against blaming migrant communities for spreading misinformation (Jun ’20)
- How does racism impact on mental wellbeing? (Jun ’20)
- Why explaining racism to white Australians can be 'exhausting' (Jun ’20)
- Law enforcement and racial profiling (Jun ’20)
- The sorry part is easy – why true racial diversity in the arts will take more than words (Jun ’20)
- ‘There are no more excuses’: six industry insiders on Australian TV's problem with race (Jun ’20)
- eSafety Commissioner ‘escalates’ Nyadol Nyuon abuse to Twitter (Jun ’20)
- 9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism (Jun ’20)
- I talk to kids every day about racism. This is what they ask (Jun ’20)
- Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate (Jun ’20)
- Chinese Australians caught in the crossfire from Beijing's Australian travel warning (Jun ’20)
- Epidemics have often led to discrimination against minorities – this time is no different (Jun ’20)
- How does racism impact mental wellbeing? (Jun ’20)
- George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery deaths: Racism causes life-threatening conditions for black men every day (Jun ’20)
- Anti-Asian racism surges in NSW during coronavirus pandemic (Jun ’20)
- Here's what you told us about racism in Australia during the coronavirus pandemic (May ’20)
- What should you do if you see someone being racially abused during the coronavirus pandemic? (May ’20)
- 'New Zealanders don't think like that': Kind Kiwi claps back at Melbourne woman after racist outburst (May ’20)
- Coronavirus has fuelled racism against Asian-Australians, but why isn't official data showing it? (May ’20)
- 90,000 foreign graduates are stuck in Australia without financial support: it’s a humanitarian and economic crisis in the making (Apr ’20)
- Doctors and nurses at Melbourne hospital racially abused over coronavirus panic (Feb '20)
- I’d never heard of Laurence Fox until he started lecturing us about racism (Jan '20)
- How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford review – we’re all related (Feb '20)
- Racism study finds one in three school students are victims of discrimination (Aug '19)
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Nation Building
- We may live to regret open-slather construction stimulus (Jul ’20)
- Opinion: the NBN is a debacle. Where art thou, minister? (Jul ’20)
- Australia & New Zealand broadband: Comparing apples with oranges… (Oct ’17)
- NBN vs. the world: The New Zealand experience (Oct ’17)
- Why New Zealand outplayed Australia on the NBN … Australian Financial Review (Aug ’17)
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Education
- Too many adjectives, not enough ideas: how NAPLAN forces us to teach bad writing (Sep ’20)
- Uni student failure rate is a worry, but the government response is too heavy-handed (Aug ’20)
- The government claims teaching is a national priority, but cheaper degrees won’t improve the profession (Jun ’20)
- View from The Hill: Tehan’s student fees are not just about jobs, but about funding and a dash of ideology too (Jun ’20)
- Coronavirus and university reforms put at risk Australia’s research gains of the last 15 years (Jun ’20)
- If the government listened to business leaders, they would encourage humanities education, not pull funds from it (Jun ’20)
- Dan Tehan’s threat to police university enrolments can’t plug the holes in the Coalition’s logic (Jun ’20)
- University students aren’t cogs in a market. They need more than a narrow focus on ‘skills’ (Jun ’20)
- ‘I spoke about Dreamtime, I ticked a box’: teachers say they lack confidence to teach Indigenous perspectives (Jun ’20)
- The government is making ‘job-ready’ degrees cheaper for students – but cutting funding to the same courses (Jun ’20)
- Government's university reform has one big difference to past failures (Jun ’20)
- University fees to be overhauled, some course costs to double as domestic student places boosted (Jun ’20)
- Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it (Jun ’20)
- Asian Australian students' success is often maligned – but it's our education system that's unequal (Jun ’20)
- How a 20-year-old student put the spotlight on Australian universities' cosy relationship with China (May ’20)
- Girls' safety and education at risk around the world due to coronavirus, Plan International warns (May ’20)
- HILDA findings on Australian families’ experience of childcare should be a call-to-arms for government (Jul ’19)
- Higher education policy in 2018: Culture wars reignite, but in the end it’s all about the money (Dec ’18)
- New report shows 85% of private schools getting more public funding than public schools (Nov ’18)
- NSW government over-funding private schools by $160 million (Oct ’18)
- Private schools getting $6700 more per student than NSW public schools (Apr ’18)
- Government Funding Increases Continue to Favour Private Schools (Feb ’18)
- Here's how Australia's schools are funded — and we promise not to mention Gonski (May ’17)
- Divestment backlash shows companies need to improve sustainability reporting (Oct ’14)
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Child Care
- We need a new childcare system that encourages women to work, not punishes them for it (Jul ’20)
- Snapping back to the childcare subsidy method is nuts. It should not be a system that profits (Jun ’20)
- Australian government to end free childcare on 12 July in move Labor says 'will snap families' (Jun ’20)
- 'Free childcare has been amazing': Australian parents hope pandemic may pave way for reform (May ’20)
- Increasing the childcare subsidy will help struggling families — and the economy (Jun ’20)
- Permanently raising the Child Care Subsidy is an economic opportunity too good to miss (Apr ’20)
- FactCheck: what are the facts on rising child care prices? (Jan ’17)
- FactCheck: has there been a massive increase in child care costs under the Coalition government? (Mar ’16)