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Australia doesn't need eight different income tax rates

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Defending the idea that states should be permitted to raise their own income tax, Prime Minister Turnbull said that if we were “starting from scratch” designing our taxation arrangements, “we would have a system where each government – each parliament – raised all the money that it spent”.

To mangle a phrase from...

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‘Silent victims’: royal commission recommends better protections for child victims of family violence

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imageIf we are to prevent family violence, we must change the attitudes and social conditions that give rise to it.shutterstock

Among the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence’s most important recommendations is the powerful acknowledgement that family violence has devastating effects on children. Commissioner Marcia Neave described...

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Something new under a (dead) sun

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imageThe closest white dwarf to Earth just 8.6 light years away as seen by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and it’s not the obvious bright object in the centre (the Dog-Star Sirius) but rather orbiting it at bottom left is a tiny point of light. This is Sirius B, a companion white dwarf with nearly as much mass as our Sun but smaller in size...

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