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Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on the mid-year budget update

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on the mid-year budget updateThe forecast for Australia's economic growth in 2019-20 has been cut by 0.25%, and the projected surplus for this financial year slashed by A$2.1 billion.The Conversation

The mid-year budget update has seen the government downgrading its forecast for Australia’s economic growth in 2019-20 by 0.25%, and slashing the projected surplus by A$2.1...

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Facebook's push for end-to-end encryption is good news for user privacy, as well as terrorists and paedophiles

  • Written by: Roberto Musotto, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, Edith Cowan University
Facebook's push for end-to-end encryption is good news for user privacy, as well as terrorists and paedophilesFacebook's initiative places the company in a complicated situation, as increased user privacy, while positive, could come with potential impunity for offenders. SHUTTERSTOCK

Facebook is planning end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services to increase privacy levels.

The tech giant started experimenting with this earlier this year. Soon,...

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5 things MYEFO tells us about the economy and the nation’s finances

  • Written by: Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute

As we come to the end of 2019, you’d be forgiven for being confused about the health of the economy.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg regularly points out that jobs growth is strong, the budget is heading back to surplus, and Australia’s GDP growth is high by international standards.

The opposition points to sluggish wages growth, weak...

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Double trouble as feral horse numbers gallop past 25,000 in the Australian Alps

  • Written by: Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
Double trouble as feral horse numbers gallop past 25,000 in the Australian AlpsFeral horses are a growing problem for the NSW government.Shutterstock/Constantin Stanciu

Feral horse numbers have more than doubled in the past five years in the Australian Alps, according to results just released from the Australian Alps Feral Horse Aerial Survey. In one of the three survey blocks, North Kosciuszko, feral horse numbers have risen...

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  1. Call for clearer risk information for tourists following Whakaari/White Island tragedy
  2. Surplus before spending. Frydenberg's risky MYEFO strategy
  3. The Madrid climate talks failed spectacularly. Here's what went down
  4. Cap your alcohol at 10 drinks a week: new draft guidelines
  5. Lower growth, tiny surplus in MYEFO budget update
  6. Refugees without secure visas have poorer mental health – but the news isn't all bad
  7. Must end soon! But not too soon! The catch in time-limited sales tactics
  8. why peanuts trigger such powerful allergic reactions
  9. 5 reasons I always get children picture books for Christmas
  10. Your Airbnb guest could be a tenant. Until the law is cleared up, hosts are in limbo
  11. Hitler humour and a child's eye view of war make for dark satire
  12. why the Bible welcomes every colour in the gender spectrum
  13. Conservative landslide at UK's Brexit election; Trump's ratings rise on strong US economy
  14. Johnson's thumping win an electoral lesson in not just having policies, but knowing how to sell them
  15. Morrison won't have a bar of public service intrusions on government's power
  16. Michelle Grattan reflects on the year in politics
  17. no wonder many Christian men today are having a masculinity crisis
  18. Australia needs a national crisis plan, and not just for bushfires
  19. Your Christmas shopping could harm or help the planet. Which will it be?
  20. Right-swipes and red flags – how young people negotiate sex and safety on dating apps
  21. Bougainville has voted to become a new country, but the journey to independence is not yet over
  22. Friday essay: eco-disaster films in the 21st century
  23. Australia's wafer-thin surplus rests on a mine disaster in Brazil
  24. A new study shows an animal's lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it's 38 years
  25. Private health insurance premiums should be based on age and health status
  26. these 5 charts show our democracy is safe in the hands of future voters
  27. Knowledge is a process of discovery: how constructivism changed education
  28. Climate winds blowing on Morrison from Liberal party's left
  29. The federal government's response to the ACCC's Digital Platforms Inquiry is a let down
  30. what actually works to protect us from bushfire smoke?
  31. how a small island nation found itself in the grips of an outbreak disaster
  32. As weary Britons head to the polls again, parties seem incapable of handling the nation's problems
  33. I had an idea in the 1980s and to my surprise, it changed education around the world
  34. Indonesian cave paintings show the dawn of imaginative art and human spiritual belief
  35. As simple as finding a job? Getting people out of social housing is much more complex than that
  36. a new film tells us little about the woman fixed in the role of musician's muse
  37. What limits shareholder activism as a force for good: the free-rider problem
  38. How New Zealanders miss out on hundreds of thousands in retirement savings
  39. 6 things to think about if you want a baby and 1 if you don't
  40. Australian law doesn't go far enough to legislate affirmative consent. NSW now has a chance to get it right
  41. riders daring to fly in a crazy desert race
  42. Now Australian cities are choking on smoke, will we finally talk about climate change?
  43. ancient penguins were as tall as people. We've discovered the species that started the downsizing trend
  44. Private health premium increases might be the lowest in years, but that doesn't mean they're justified
  45. So your kid's finished their first year of school. Here's what they should have learnt
  46. 5 human rights issues that defined 2019
  47. As heat strikes, here's one way to help fight disease-carrying and nuisance mosquitoes
  48. Expect family talks about climate change this Christmas? Take tips from Greta Thunberg
  49. Don't blame the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It's climate and economic change driving farmers out
  50. seven reasons to be wary of waste-to-energy proposals

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