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Slashing penalty rates: a misguided response to problems of the past

  • Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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A Senate committee has finally handed down a report on the Fair Work Commission’s decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates for workers in a range of service industries.

The report recommends that the government bring in legislation to overturn the decision, citing mixed evidence of the impact of the penalty rate cut, and the fact that...

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Grandparents must be included in decisions about children in out-of-home care

  • Written by Susan Gair, Associate Professor, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University
imageGrandparents reported being overlooked and routinely sidelined in decision-making by child protection workers.Shutterstock

Across Australia, growing numbers of children are entering out-of-home care, including disproportionate numbers of Indigenous children. As a consequence, more grandparents are becoming primary carers for their grandchildren,...

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Classical Indian dance meets contemporary in Rising

  • Written by William Peterson, Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University
imageAakash Odredra in RisingChris Nash

British dancer Aakash Odedra’s debut solo evening of work, collectively presented under the title Rising, was a fitting and provocative bookend to this year’s OzAsia Festival. It harked back to the festival’s thrilling opening production of Until the Lions by the Akram Khan Company.

Like Khan,...

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How to talk to your child about suicide

  • Written by Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageIt's hard for parents to know whether, or how, they should address suicide with their children.from www.shutterstock.com

Unfortunately many lives are touched by suicide. And while you may want to hide the means of death from your child, this may not be possible, especially in the age of social media. This has provided a modern difficulty for...

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  1. Explainer: how our understanding of risk is changing
  2. Do trauma victims really repress memories and can therapy induce false memories?
  3. Northern exposure: fossils of a southern whale found for the first time in the north
  4. Competitive tendering hasn't delivered for public transport, so why reward poor performance?
  5. Construction industry loophole leaves home buyers facing higher energy bills
  6. Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country: a tragic investigation of race on Australia's frontier
  7. High stakes for Turnbull government as High Court hears MPs' citizenship cases
  8. What should Australian companies be doing right now to protect our privacy
  9. How Melbourne activists launched a campaign for nuclear disarmament and won a Nobel prize
  10. Caravan delivers a glimpse of women on the edge with sweet comedy
  11. Weekly Dose: from laughing parties to whipped cream, nitrous oxide's on the rise as a recreational drug
  12. Tony Abbott, once the 'climate weathervane', has long since rusted stuck
  13. To keep heatwaves at bay, aged care residents deserve better quality homes
  14. The off-topic Conversation #138
  15. After the storm: how political attacks on renewables elevates attention paid to climate change
  16. El Niño in the Pacific has an impact on dolphins over in Western Australia
  17. Five things senators (and everyone else) should know about changes to HELP debts
  18. The Hanson effect: how hate seeps in and damages us all
  19. Old sites, new visions: art and archaeology collide in Cyprus
  20. Digital media are changing the face of buildings, and urban policy needs to change with them
  21. Ten questions you should ask before sharing data about your customers
  22. Science or Snake Oil: do men need sperm health supplements?
  23. Whatever happened to the 15-hour workweek?
  24. Why is the US trying to shut down Russian security company Kaspersky Lab?
  25. No chance of US gun control despite Las Vegas massacre; NZ left gains two seats after special votes
  26. Nick Xenophon set to go back to where he came from
  27. What the Nobel Prize tells us about the state of economics
  28. Revenge served cold: was Scott of the Antarctic sabotaged by his angry deputy?
  29. Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro shows us the illusion of connection with the world
  30. The reality of living with 50℃ temperatures in our major cities
  31. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the toughened terrorism laws
  32. Explainer: why is Western Australia fighting with miners over gold royalties?
  33. Ancestry, storytelling, and fighting racism with rap
  34. Taylor Mac makes history at Melbourne Festival opening
  35. Let's face it, we'll be no safer with a national facial recognition database
  36. Xenophon's shock resignation from Senate to run for state seat
  37. Research Check: can ‘Lightning Process’ coaching program help youths with chronic fatigue?
  38. Tom Petty died from a cardiac arrest – what makes this different to a heart attack and heart failure?
  39. Neanderthals didn't give us red hair but they certainly changed the way we sleep
  40. Are mass shootings a white man's problem?
  41. Super cute home robots are coming, but think twice before you trust them
  42. COAG meeting on counter-terrorism was more about politics than practice
  43. Friday essay: the recovery of cuneiform, the world's oldest known writing
  44. The government's new gas deal will ease the squeeze, but dodges the price issue
  45. Underground in Brisvegas: can an electronic dance music artist thrive outside the city?
  46. Jobs, tax and politics: three ways electric vehicles will change our world
  47. Sleep and the restless preschooler: why policies need to change
  48. Vital Signs: the data is mixed but worrying signs from mortgagees
  49. Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united
  50. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...

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