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Suspending welfare payments unlikely to boost school attendance

  • Written by Kirsten Hancock, LCC Research Fellow at Telethon Kids Institute; Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
imageDisadvantaged students are more likely to miss school.Dan Peled/AAP

The Commonwealth Minister for Social Services, Christian Porter, recently floated the idea of linking welfare payments to children’s school attendance rates.

But research and results from ongoing trials show this policy approach doesn’t really help address the problem.

The...

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Banks can target service before sales to avoid a banking royal commission

  • Written by Steve Worthington, Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology

The US$185 million fine levied on US bank Wells Fargo for unauthorised accounts opened by employees seeking bonuses appears to have become a tipping point for industry action in Australia.

Reacting to sales targets and bonus incentives, Wells Fargo employees artificially inflated their sales by secretly opening accounts. They then transferred funds...

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BP in the Bight: why the planned oil spill response is too slow to protect the coast

  • Written by Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University

Australia’s offshore petroleum industry regulator is set to rule next week whether to grant oil giant BP’s application to drill in the Great Australian Bight.

But BP’s environmental plan, released last week, suggests that the company’s proposed plan for dealing with a blowout displays less urgency than would be expected in...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's approach to welfare

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

University of Canberra professorial fellow Michelle Grattan and senior lecturer in political science Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics, including Nationals MP George Christensen going solo, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s announcement of a rise in Australia’s humanitarian refugee intake, Education Minister Simon...

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  5. Friday essay: the Australian Mosque
  6. Gonski model was corrupted, but Labor and Coalition are both to blame
  7. Intelligence review must tackle anxiety around information-gathering, privacy and security
  8. Everything you wanted to know about US elections but were afraid to ask
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  10. Australian investors want bankable projects that help us adapt to climate change
  11. Why psychology lost its soul: everything comes from the brain
  12. How the Australian galah got its name in a muddle
  13. Speaking with: Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all
  14. A green and happy holiday? You can have it all
  15. Grattan on Friday: Morrison reminds everyone Porter is walking in his steps
  16. The hard sell of stem cells: we need a better way to protect patients from harm
  17. Explainer: why the Japanese economy is stuck in a holding pattern
  18. Liberal director Nutt cold on foreign donation ban
  19. The Great Barrier Reef's 'new normal' is a forlorn sight
  20. Why Christine Lagarde says women are the answer to the world's economic growth problem
  21. Beyond the war of words: how might the Australian media's coverage of China affect social cohesion?
  22. Race to the White House: foreign policy disputes, first presidential debate, and Trump Jnr's tweet
  23. We can already see how a 'debate' about love will lead to violence and hate
  24. ASEAN goal to eradicate drugs in the region leads to disregard for human life
  25. More at-risk young people are turning to private VET providers
  26. No, cutting your car's carbon emissions won't cost you more
  27. The revolving door: why politicians become lobbyists, and lobbyists become politicians
  28. Birmingham prepares for fundamental changes to Labor's Gonski funding model
  29. Explainer: the nine swing states that will decide the next US president
  30. DNA reveals a new history of the First Australians
  31. What is infant reflux and will it get better?
  32. Explainer: what is fat studies?
  33. It takes a community to raise a startup
  34. Turnbull to UN: Climate change threatens 'the future of generations'
  35. No, fitness trackers do not make you fat and they don't make losing weight harder
  36. Business Briefing: we're overusing and underestimating 'disruption'
  37. FactCheck: Is 30% of Northern Territory farmland and 22% of Tasmanian farmland foreign-owned?
  38. Weekly Dose: LSD – dangerous, mystical or therapeutic?
  39. Resettlement is the test for Malcolm Turnbull on refugees
  40. In an age of rhetoric, Australian politics is missing the American flair
  41. The view from inside the Beltway
  42. Gen Y carers don't want a free ride, so welfare reform shouldn't single them out
  43. Sydney Metro's Sydenham-to-Bankstown line – nirvana or nightmare?
  44. Did the suicide rate decrease during Ireland's referendum on same-sex marriage?
  45. Acknowledge the brutal history of Indigenous health care – for healing
  46. How the Asia-Pacific can lead the way on migrants and refugees
  47. Turnbull announces a new refugee plan, but will it solve the crisis?
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