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Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners

  • Written by: Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
imageIt's quite a feat to sell beer to a nation of drinkers like Australia and not record a taxable income.Bala Sivakumar/flickr, CC BY-SA

Nowhere is the impotence of politicians and regulators more costly than in their failure to stand up to multinational corporations dodging tax.

The Tax Office now publishes an annual list of Australia’s 1,900...

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Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program

  • Written by: Jane Williams, Researcher at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM), University of Sydney
imageWomen are confused about how the new test for human papillomavirus (HPV), pictured here, will help them prevent cervical cancer. Let's fix that.from www.shutterstock.com

Australia’s new national cervical cancer screening program has had a bad week.

The government announced it would delay the May 1 roll-out of its new program until Dec 1, 2017....

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Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePat Hutchens/TC

With university graduates finding it harder to find jobs, questions have been raised about the merits of a typical tertiary qualification. Dr Ken Coates, Canada research chair in regional innovation at University Saskatchewan Campus, says by 2050 we’re going to have hundreds of more specialised, boutique institutions.

“We&...

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The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political

  • Written by: Tom Clark, Associate Professor, College of Arts, Victoria University

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio anchor Mark Colvin once opened a news report on the Oscars ceremony with a prescient segue: “Meanwhile, over in La La Land, the annual integrity awards are underway.” He could have had no inkling of the drama that would surround a film called La La Land this year.

Some rumblings in...

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