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Vital Signs: flat employment remains worrying for Australia

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia
imageEmployment growth remains flat, despite hopes for improvement.Daniel Oines/Flickr, CC BY

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 impacting global economies.

This week: everyone...

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What comes after the Paralympics? How sport and study can enhance each other

  • Written by: Bridie Kean, PhD Candidate in School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageThe author, Bridie Kean, at the London Paralympics in 2012.Australian Paralympic Committee, CC BY-SA

I was 13 when the Australian Gliders wheelchair basketball team won silver at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. Seeing amputees, just like me, compete so fiercely on the world stage ignited my dream to become a Paralympian.

Eight years later I was a...

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Grattan on Friday: The Turnbull government begins to wash its face

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

Finally - though who knows for how long – we see signs of the Turnbull government pulling up its socks. Or to adapt a phrase often used by Scott Morrison, it started to “wash its face” in this second week of the new parliament.

The deal with Labor to secure its omnibus bill, which will now produce $6.3 billion in savings, and the...

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Winners and losers from the government's compromise on superannuation

  • Written by: Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
imageThe changes to the cap on non-concessional contributions is one of the features of the latest superannuation reform proposals.www.shutterstock.com

The government has watered down its superannuation reforms in the final release of the proposed changes. The superannuation contribution caps and the reforms to the non-concessional cap are less...

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  1. Valerie Amos: 'academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and respected'
  2. State aid lessons for Australia from the Apple EU tax case
  3. Why Australians should say 'Yes' to the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  4. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, August 2016
  5. Take control over the end of your life: what you need to know about advance care directives
  6. When process becomes product – repacking science communication
  7. NHMRC fluoride paper: relax, Australian citizens, your pineal glands are safe
  8. After Tasmania's year of disasters, bushfire tops the state's growing list of natural hazards
  9. Race to the White House – Episode One
  10. Social media and defamation law pose threats to free speech, and it's time for reform
  11. FactCheck: Have eight of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years?
  12. Breaking news: marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)
  13. Media owners steer government away from reform in the public interest
  14. Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?
  15. Shadow banking increases the risk of another global financial crisis
  16. Here’s looking at: John Olsen, Summer in the You Beaut Country, 1962
  17. What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?
  18. Squandering riches: can Perth realise the value of its biodiversity?
  19. Into the spotlight: media coverage of the Paralympic Games has come a long way
  20. Making drug development less secretive could lead to quicker, cheaper therapies
  21. Pauline Hanson 20 years on: same refrain, new target
  22. Newspoll steady, with Turnbull's poor ratings continuing
  23. Senator, You're No Socrates
  24. Foreign donations on agenda for parliamentary inquiry
  25. Shorten shoots down plebiscite
  26. To get young people into work, we first need to understand how the workplace is changing
  27. Despite the funding cut, ARENA's glass is still half full – here's how to spend the money
  28. Weekly Dose: cannabis has been used medicinally for millennia, why is legalising it taking so long?
  29. Explainer: why Hanjin's ships are stranded around the globe
  30. A day for turning parking spaces into pop-up parks
  31. How Game of Thrones' Emmy-award-winning battle scene was made
  32. Going bankrupt is a life changing decision – so why is the process to do it so easy?
  33. Yes, education funding has increased – but not everyone benefits
  34. Politics podcast: Don Watson on the rise of Trump
  35. Explainer: the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  36. Section 18C is an important part of a civilised society and no threat to free speech
  37. Why is the advertising industry still promoting violence against women?
  38. Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
  39. Business Briefing: trusting an algorithm with investment decisions
  40. First person: how the Paralympics changed my life
  41. We have a moral obligation to allow drug analysis at music festivals
  42. Australia is locking up too many women but the UK offers a blueprint for a radical new approach
  43. Guide to the classics: Ovid's Metamorphoses and reading rape
  44. Confused? Don't worry because that can be a good thing
  45. People are 'blind' to plants, and that's bad news for conservation
  46. Australian Renewable Energy Agency saved but with reduced funding – experts react
  47. What is the role of a teacher?
  48. Gay Liberal senator denounces marriage plebiscite
  49. Australia's housing affordability problem explained in five historical steps
  50. Risky business: how companies are getting smart about climate change

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