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The state of the union(s): how a perfect storm weakened the workers' voices

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageJust after the second world war, union membership was almost 65% of the workforce. Now it is just 15%.Wikimedia Commons

With the Senate again rejecting the government’s bill to restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has the triggers he needs for a double-dissolution election on July 2....

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Ideas for Australia: Welfare reform needs to be about improving well-being, not punishing the poor

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageAt its peak in 1996, nearly 25% of Australia's working-age population was receiving basic income support benefits.AAP/Dan Peled

The Conversation has asked 20 academics to examine the big ideas facing Australia for the 2016 federal election and beyond. The 20-piece series will examine, among others, the state of democracy, health, education,...

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Ideas for Australia: Closing the gap is proving hard, but we can do better by working developmentally

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The Conversation has asked 20 academics to examine the big ideas facing Australia for the 2016 federal election and beyond. The 20-piece series examines, among others, the state of democracy, health, education, environment, equality, freedom of speech, federation and economic reform.


The significance of government services and funding to the...

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Signing the Paris Climate Agreement is easy – what comes next for Australia will be hard

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThe Paris climate agreement will be open for signing at the UN's New York headquarters for the next year, starting tomorrow.Yero/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Tomorrow, world leaders and diplomats will converge on the United Nations' New York headquarters to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change. It will be the largest UN signing event in history...

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  4. How the deficit obsession is eroding the budget's usefulness
  5. Split-second decisions with little praise: so what does it take to ref a game of NRL
  6. Turnbull warns of growing cyber aggression
  7. Depp, Heard, Joyce – The Future of Cinema and Its Critique
  8. Why the 60 Minutes shambles is unlikely to be a one-off incident
  9. Turnbull should help the states switch stamp duty for land tax
  10. Hidden housemates: when possums go bump in the night
  11. How might Big Tobacco react to a rise in cigarette excise?
  12. Morrison warns banks not to pass on new 'user-pays' impost to finance ASIC reform
  13. Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
  14. Weekly Dose: St John's Wort, the flower that can treat depression
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  16. Beyond the icon: despite a construction boom, Australian skyscraper design needs to evolve
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  18. Economists should step out of their bubble more often
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  20. Government must boost attendance rates in early education
  21. Ideas for Australia: bipartisanship on immigration does little to counter racism, suspicion and division
  22. Ideas for Australia: City v4.0, a new model of urban growth and governance for Australia
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  24. In remembering Anzac Day, what do we forget?
  25. Exercise can improve cancer recovery and reduce health-care costs
  26. Budget explainer: commodity prices and the federal budget
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  30. Was Tasmania's summer of fires and floods a glimpse of its climate future?
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  39. Countries should put women at the forefront of the UN drug policy debate
  40. Balancing the budget mantra overlooks benefits of infrastructure spending
  41. Explainer: the road to a July 2 double-dissolution election
  42. Nature is neglected in this election campaign – at its and our own peril
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  44. Explainer: what autoimmune disorder is newly linked to Zika?
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Correct Sleeping Posture to Minimize Back Strain

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