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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
imageMarkets are useful to a certain point.Shutterstock.com

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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Latest Murray-Darling squabble sheds light on the plan's flaws

  • Written by Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
imageThe Murray-Darling is a complex freshwater ecosystem. Murray River wetlands image from www.shutterstock.com

Tempers have flared once again over the long-term plan to return water to the Murray-Darling River and improve its health.

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has released its report into the northern basin (in Queensland and New South Wales)....

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