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Election FactCheck: are many refugees illiterate and innumerate?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

For many people, they won’t be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English… – Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Peter Dutton, interview with Sky News presenter Paul Murray, May 17, 2016.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton caused instant headlines when he told Sky News many refugees are illiterate...

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Labor has big lead in WA, but LNP leads in Queensland

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

The Western Australian election will be held in early 2017. A WA Newspoll, conducted March to May from a sample of 1140, gives Labor an emphatic 54-46 lead, a 1 point gain for Labor since the October to December Newspoll. Primary votes are 42% for Labor (steady), 40% for the Liberals and Nationals (down 2) and 11% for the Greens (up 1).

31% (down...

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The full story on company tax cuts and your hip pocket

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

A long-term plan to cut the company tax rate from 30% to 25% is the centrepiece of the Coalition’s economic plan for jobs and growth. The Coalition maintains the change will boost GDP by more than 1% in the long-term, at a budgetary cost of $48.2 billion over the next 10 years.

But the very Treasury research papers relied on by the Coalition...

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Peter Dutton: a menace to multicultural Australia

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

If Malcolm Turnbull is returned he should tip Peter Dutton out of the immigration portfolio when he chooses his new ministry.

Dutton’s Tuesday comments, when targeting the Greens’ proposal for a big increase in the refugee intake, were crude and inflammatory.

He said on Sky that many of these people wouldn’t be literate or numerate...

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