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FactCheck Q A: does Australia have one of the highest progressive tax rates in the developed world?

  • Written by: Kathrin Bain, Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW
imageThe AiGroup's Innes Willox, speaking on Q&A.Q&A

The Conversation fact-checks claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email.

Excerpt from Q&A, May 15, 2017. Quote begins at 0.50.

Look, we just...

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We should not commit combat troops to the Afghanistan conflict – here's why

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageMalcolm Turnbull visits the memorial at the Resolute Support Mission HQ Kabul, Afghanistan. 40 Australians have so far been killed in the long-running conflict.AAP/pool

Let’s start with numbers. Since the United States, backed by its allies including Australia, removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in 2001 in retaliation for the...

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Vital Signs: dismal wages growth makes a joke of budget forecasts

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imagePay packets rose just 0.5% in the first quarter.bradleypjohnson/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: investor loans...

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  2. Explainer: what is a special counsel and what will he investigate in the Trump administration?
  3. Maybe we can, but should we? Deciding whether to bring back extinct species
  4. Australians don't loiter in public space – the legacy of colonial control by design
  5. Climate Council: climate, health and economics are against Carmichael mine
  6. Study confirms 'flushing' blocked fallopian tubes can improve fertility and reduce need for IVF
  7. Few Australians trust social media with personal information but do little about it
  8. Grattan on Friday: Budget-making is undermined by the continuous election campaign
  9. Politics podcast: Dennis Richardson on telling it like it is
  10. Shinzo Abe pushes ahead on constitutional reform amid heated debate within Japan
  11. Four ways junk food brands befriend kids online
  12. $89b shipbuilding plan is a major step forward – but sovereignty remains a problem
  13. Challenges persist for multiple legal actions regarding MH17
  14. The - Roger - Stone Age Man
  15. We don't have a gas shortfall worth worrying about
  16. Anti-Chinese and anti-Christian sentiment is not new in Indonesia
  17. Programs that prepare students for university study may no longer be free
  18. FactCheck: do Australian banks have double the return on equity of banks in other developed economies?
  19. Health Check: why can you feel groggy days after an operation?
  20. Australian fashion is thriving, so where are the policies to take it to the world?
  21. I'm not a racist, but: how we monitor discrimination
  22. What comes first: the free-range chicken or the free-range egg?
  23. Two pictures of rental housing stress and vulnerability zero in on areas of need
  24. Get used to your commute: data confirms houses near jobs are too expensive
  25. The lengthy childhood of endangered orangutans is written in their teeth
  26. New Zealand's Alpine Fault reveals extreme underground heat and fluid pressure
  27. Writing the WA wheatbelt, a place of radical environmental change
  28. Beyond Brexit: ‘Global Britain’ looks to the emerging Anglosphere for new opportunities
  29. Science or Snake oil: do Band-Aids really 'heal cuts twice as fast'?
  30. Guilt-free online shopping: can parcel deliveries ever be truly carbon-neutral?
  31. Expert culture has killed the innovator in workplaces
  32. Ratings agency S P keeps Australia's AAA rating but doubtful about government's surplus timetable
  33. Physicists use Einstein's 'spooky' entanglement to invent super-sensitive gravitational wave detector
  34. This South Pacific island of rubbish shows why we need to quit our plastic habit
  35. White House under siege as scandal follows scandal – and it won't end any time soon
  36. The ABC's Ask the Doctor sends mixed messages about obesity
  37. Guy Ritchie's King Arthur – a triumph of modern spectacle
  38. Scrounging for money: how the world's great writers made a living
  39. Research shows the banks will pass the bank levy on to customers
  40. Biophilic urbanism: how rooftop gardening soothes souls
  41. The Belt and Road Initiative: China's vision for globalisation, Beijing-style
  42. Violence against nurses is on the rise, but protections remain weak
  43. Curious Kids: why are some shells smooth and some shells corrugated?
  44. Sidelining God: why secular climate projects in the Pacific Islands are failing
  45. Shadow Brokers promise release of more NSA hacks to be used against the world
  46. Coalition fails to get post-budget boost predicted by commentariat
  47. Nick Greiner favourite to become Liberal federal president
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