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Turnbull government secures ABCC – but suffers sudden defeat on backpacker tax

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Turnbull government has finally passed its signature legislation to restore a tough watchdog in the construction industry – the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).

After the government threw every effort into getting the ABCC through – accepting a slew of crossbench amendments, granting other concessions, and...

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Full response from a spokesperson for Barnaby Joyce

  • Written by Lucinda Beaman, Deputy Editor, FactCheck, The Conversation

In relation to this FactCheck on how much working holiday makers would earn in Australia compared to New Zealand, England or Canada, a spokesperson for Barnaby Joyce said:

Under the proposed 19% tax rate backpackers coming to Australia will have a better take home pay than those who choose to work in New Zealand, England or Canada.

Based on typical...

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FactCheck: would backpackers be better off working in Australia than NZ, England or Canada?

  • Written by Kathrin Bain, Lecturer, School of Taxation & Business Law, UNSW Australia

Editor’s note: The original version of this article, published at 12.19pm AEDT on November 30, 2016, has been updated to reflect the news that the government’s proposed 15% backpacker tax suffered a surprise defeat in the Senate.

The Senate instead supported Labor’s amendment for a 10.5% rate. If an agreement can’t be...

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We should all beware a resurgent financial sector

  • Written by Usman W. Chohan, Doctoral Candidate, Policy Reform and Economics, UNSW Australia
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Around the world, the financial sector is resurgent and is concocting new financial instruments and markets in which to trade them. In Australia the market for some financial securities has quintupled in only a year, encouraged by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).

This is...

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