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Business Briefing: Former chief World Bank economist on inequality and doing away with big money

  • Written by Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation

Doing away with big currency notes is a movement that is picking up all over the world, says Kaushik Basu, a professor of economics at Cornell University. While it may be a good idea in theory for tackling tax evasion and the black market in Australia, he says policymakers have to be cautious in implementing it.

Basu, a former economic adviser to...

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The great Australian plays: speaking ‘Orstyrlian’ in Rusty Bugles

  • Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
image‘Molly? Molly? MOLLY?’ Tony Barry as Keghead in Rusty Bugles. ABC/National Film and Sound Archive

Rusty Bugles is a comedy-drama by Sumner Locke Elliot, one of the many talented writers to abandon Australia in the 1940s and 1950s in search of an artistic living overseas.

First produced by Sydney’s Independent Theatre in 1948 it...

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How Donald Trump won the 2016 meme wars

  • Written by Rodney Taveira, Lecturer in American Studies, University of Sydney
imageUnlike Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump did not give a subculture a corporate, establishment sheen by appropriating it.EPA/Cesare Abbate

If news pundits had been paying closer attention to memes, they might have been less shocked by the result of the 2016 US presidential election. Election memes reflected the political narrative of Hillary...

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Government response to Infrastructure Australia offers no grounds for optimism

  • Written by Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageFor as long as the government avoids rigorous, transparent processes, there is no reason to expect any real discipline in how it spends infrastructure dollars.AAP/Julian Smith

How wonderful, you might think, that the Australian government is in furious agreement with its independent infrastructure advisory body on how to tackle the country’s...

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  1. Turnbull government secures ABCC – but suffers sudden defeat on backpacker tax
  2. Full response from a spokesperson for Barnaby Joyce
  3. FactCheck: would backpackers be better off working in Australia than NZ, England or Canada?
  4. We should all beware a resurgent financial sector
  5. Latest Murray-Darling squabble sheds light on the plan's flaws
  6. Which sports are best for health and long life?
  7. Neither the ABC nor SBS have anything to fear from community forums
  8. What are the great Australian plays? Refining our theatre canon
  9. How 'Alfred' the whale lost its teeth to become a giant filter feeder
  10. Medicare logo case shows the urgent need to update Australia's IP laws
  11. Will the latest electricity review bring climate and energy policy together at last?
  12. As Australian shipping grows, how can we avoid collisions with marine animals?
  13. Women don't always get what they want from labiaplasty
  14. In a win for consumers, ACCC rules against the banks' actions against Apple Pay
  15. Turnbull's water gesture satisfies Xenophon
  16. ACCC rejects the banks colluding to bargain on Apple Pay
  17. Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science
  18. New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis
  19. Paleopups and paleopussies: is a paleodiet for your pet a step too far?
  20. Ipsos: are the Greens really at 16%?
  21. From the Gold Coast to Geelong: how cities are shaping visions of their futures
  22. How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
  23. What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
  24. A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court
  25. It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'
  26. Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
  27. Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
  28. Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument
  29. Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
  30. Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it
  31. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
  32. 'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone
  33. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  34. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  35. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
  36. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  37. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  38. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  39. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
  40. Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study
  41. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
  42. Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
  43. Health Check: why men wake up with erections
  44. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  45. Comments on mobile
  46. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  47. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  48. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  49. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  50. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters

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