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Why special tax breaks for seniors should go

  • Written by: John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute
imageMany seniors pay less than younger workers on the same income as a result of special tax breaks for seniors.www.shutterstock.com

The federal government could save about A$1 billion a year by winding back three tax breaks for older Australians that are unduly generous and have no sensible policy rationale, according to our new Grattan Institute...

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Trumpism as Whitelash

  • Written by: Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
imageJesus for Trump

Can we get real about the meaning of Donald Trump’s victory? The day before the presidential election everyone believed Hillary Clinton would win. The polls consistently showed she was some 3 or more percentage points ahead and she was leading in the key battleground states.

It had been known for many months that 40+ per cent...

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After objectivity?

  • Written by: Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
imageABC News 24

As the results of the 2016 election came in, the mainstream media in America and around the world demonstrated their inability to cope with the challenge of a president Trump within the conventional paradigms of journalistic objectivity, balance and fairness. Or, rather, to cope without normalising the most conspicuously overt racism,...

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How the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease: a new view

  • Written by: Arne Ittner, Postdoctoral research fellow, UNSW Australia
imageUnpicking how brain proteins interact may create new strategies to prevent and treat Alzheimer's Disease. hernanpc/flickr , CC BY-SA

Most people have heard of Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. The disease has no cure and few, but inefficient, treatments. Despite their best efforts, doctors and researchers still...

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