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How Australia should react to the Trump tax cuts

  • Written by: Pascalis Raimondos, Professor of Economics, Head of School, Queensland University of Technology

President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the US corporate tax rate from 35% to 15% and ending the practice of taxing the foreign income of US businesses. Trump may be hoping that such a massive corporate tax cut will result in new investment. Indeed, historical data suggests companies will respond by shifting profits to where the tax is low.

This...

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Government's oil and gas tax response will leave regional communities at a loss

  • Written by: Diane Kraal, Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University

Falling revenues from petroleum mining, that spurred a review of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT), have hit regional communities hard and these same communities aren’t likely to get any relief from the government response.

Local communities that support the resource sector have called for funding now to build new infrastructure. But...

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Trigger Warnings, Evidence-Based Policy and Media Literacy

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

With complete disregard for irony, Conservatives are sometimes triggered laughably easily.

When the brown folks forget their station, for example. When we ladies get too ballsy. And God forbid if anyone dares fuck with the fairytales.

A couple of weeks ago a brouhaha centred on teaching media literacy through fairytales. Apparently any attempt to...

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Inventing the Wicked Witch: Review of Susan Bordo’s The Destruction of Hillary Clinton

  • Written by: Michelle Smith, Research fellow in English Literature, Deakin University
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Susan Bordo’s response to Hillary Clinton’s unimaginable defeat at the hands of Donald Trump reads like a bystander’s account of a train crash or bomb explosion. In the wake of the unexpected, and what feels like destruction, how can the exact cause of the catastrophe be explained?

Bordo takes rapid stock of the situation...

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  3. Evidence mounts for a search further north for missing flight MH370
  4. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's first meeting with Trump
  5. Economists split over Turnbull's plan to reserve gas for Australian customers
  6. Weekly Quiz: who was the youngest Twist child in Round The Twist?
  7. We must plan the driverless city to avoid being hostage to the technology revolution
  8. Teenagers who are both bully and victim are more likely to have suicidal thoughts
  9. Merged minor parties chase votes on the right as identity crisis grips Coalition
  10. Friday essay: moving autism on TV beyond the genius stereotype
  11. Unstacked: revealing the hidden gems of the State Library of NSW
  12. Every picture tells a story, but visualisation can tell the right one
  13. Vital Signs: what will end up in Scott Morrison's 'good' books?
  14. Why brain stimulation isn't what it's cracked up to be
  15. French and Australian experts on solving the world's sustainability challenge
  16. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull's pipe dreams channel ghost of Rex Connor
  17. Talking to John Clarke: a friend and biographer reflects
  18. Australian politics explainer: the MV Tampa and the transformation of asylum-seeker policy
  19. The multi-billion-dollar subsidy for private health insurance isn't worth it
  20. Why S-Town invites empathy not voyeurism
  21. Housing still out of reach for many even as rents fall in post-boom Western Australia
  22. Age discrimination in the workplace happening to people as young as 45: study
  23. The slow death of Australian children's TV drama
  24. Cyber attacks ten years on: from disruption to disinformation
  25. Australian politics explainer: the Mabo decision and native title
  26. How virtual reality spiders are helping people face their arachnophobia
  27. Budget to distinguish good and bad debt
  28. Gas export restrictions imposed to ensure domestic supply
  29. Abdel-Magied Anzac row is a storm over not much
  30. The schoolgirls of Charles Blackman – haunting works from a politically innocent age
  31. Explainer: what is reflation and is Australia experiencing it?
  32. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on North Korea's aggression
  33. Macron and Le Pen battle voter disdain as they square off for French presidency
  34. Investing in rural health brings dollar returns to local economies (and improves health)
  35. Backyard skinny-dippers lack effective laws to keep peeping drones at bay
  36. Self-esteem among narcissists is 'puffed up, but shaky'
  37. Chevron is just the start: modelling shows how many billions in revenue the government is missing out on
  38. The US, Russia and China: a twisted tale of personal ego, profound mistrust and foolish nationalism
  39. Five things the east coast can learn from WA about energy
  40. Here's looking at: Vincent Van Gogh’s Olive grove with two olive pickers
  41. Cities are complex systems – let’s start looking at them that way
  42. Health Check: what can your doctor tell from your urine?
  43. No, epigenetics and environmental responsiveness don’t undermine Darwinian evolution
  44. Curious Kids: Does space go on forever?
  45. Your headphones aren't spying on you, but your apps are. Here is why
  46. Turnbull expects to meet Trump next week
  47. Witch-hunts and surveillance: the hidden lives of queer people in the military
  48. Stitching lives back together: men's rehabilitation embroidery in WWI
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