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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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  8. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  9. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  10. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  11. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  12. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  13. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  14. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  15. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  16. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  17. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  18. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  19. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  20. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  21. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  22. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  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
  26. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world
  27. I've always wondered: Why don't hippos get cholera?
  28. What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
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  30. Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap
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  32. FactCheck: will Safe Schools be 'mandatory' if same-sex marriage is legalised?
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  34. Revealed today, Elon Musk's new space vision took us from Earth to Mars, and back home again
  35. Australian regulators have finally made a move on initial coin offerings
  36. Australia's new national space agency will help students reach for the stars in STEM
  37. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
  38. 'No one is steering the ship': five lessons learned (or not) since the SA blackout
  39. What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula
  40. The pathologies of populism
  41. The beautiful social media game: A-League winners and losers on Twitter
  42. Australia needs new insolvency laws to encourage small businesses
  43. Debris from the 2011 tsunami carried hundreds of species across the Pacific Ocean
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  46. Friday essay: Dr Joe Gumbula, the ancestral chorus, and how we value Indigenous knowledges
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