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Why Australia doesn't need to match the Trump tax cuts

  • Written by: Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University

Moves by President Donald Trump to slash the US corporate tax rate to 20% have been met by calls for Australia to do the same, or risk losing investment dollars.

But it is not clear that lower corporate taxes result in more investment, employment and growth – especially as corporate taxes have already fallen significantly in the OECD over...

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An award with real gravity: how gravitational waves attracted a Nobel Prize

  • Written by: Eric Thrane, Senior Lecturer in Physics & Astronomy, ARC Future Fellow, Node Leader, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Monash University
imageAn illustration of the collision of two black holes, an event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).The SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project

The 2017 Nobel prize for physics, awarded overnight in Sweden by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, began with a discussion 42 years ago...

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Qld ReachTEL: One Nation prefs help LNP to 52-48 lead; 57.5% nationally have returned SSM form

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

A Queensland ReachTEL poll, presumably conducted 28 September from a sample of 4000, gave the Liberal National Party (LNP) a 52-48 lead by respondent allocated preferences, a one point gain for the LNP since a June ReachTEL. The next Queensland election must be held by early 2018.

Primary votes, including 7.7% undecided, were 32.1% Labor, 30.6%...

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  10. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
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  12. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
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  14. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
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  23. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  24. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  25. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
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  37. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
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