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does monetary policy work any more?

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

In its quarterly statement on monetary policy, released today, the Reserve Bank of Australia declared its preparedness to “ease monetary policy further if needed”.

This suggests the bank still thinks monetary policy – in this case lowering interest rates to stimulate the economy – could help “support sustainable growth...

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Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home

  • Written by: Michael Lord, Zero Carbon Researcher, University of Melbourne
Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at homeTrucks taking iron ore from mines in Western Australia where it will probably be shipped overseas.Shutterstock/Inc

Australia could create tens of thousands of new jobs and generate many billions of dollars in export revenues if it turned more to manufacturing metals rather than exporting ore to other countries.

That’s a finding of our...

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Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies

  • Written by: Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney
Pass the popcorn - Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of moviesWhen a filmmaker as big as Scorsese needs Netflix for funding, what does it mean for the little guys? IMDB

Cinema has always been a medium in crisis. After the so-called golden age of Hollywood came television: why go to the movies when you can sit in the comfort of your home, watching recycled movies in letterbox format? Yet cinemas adapted and...

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How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka

  • Written by: Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato
How NZ's colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at ParihakaArmed constabulary gather at Parihaka.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND

This week, Māori in the Taranaki region remembered the “day of plunder” – the 1881 government invasion of Parihaka, the small settlement that had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land.

It was one of the most brutal events...

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  1. Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem
  2. Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke
  3. the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court
  4. Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer
  5. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  6. a short, sharp history of the bayonet
  7. Labor's post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done
  8. Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home
  9. Queensland Health's history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be
  10. Australia's drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point
  11. Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist
  12. Labor's election post-mortem warns against 'becoming a grievance-based organisation'
  13. This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness
  14. Abusing a robot won't hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
  15. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west
  16. Australian unis' financial strife in three charts
  17. Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying
  18. men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women
  19. How to deal with smartphone stress
  20. Government sets up concessional loan scheme for drought-hit small businesses
  21. Trump could win again despite losing popular vote, as Biden retakes lead in Democratic polls
  22. Tweaking prescribing rules won't fix chemical restraint in aged care
  23. I teach and play gospel music and I think Kanye's Jesus is King is a remarkable gospel album
  24. Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there's a way to avoid it
  25. Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
  26. Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
  27. the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi's hidden cameras
  28. climate change isn't just about temperature
  29. How do solar panels work?
  30. why Mars is cold despite an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide
  31. Australia wants to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Equal pay for the Matildas will help our chances
  32. Should you worry about Boeing 737s? Only if you run an airline
  33. India's not joining the latest free-trade deal which limits Australia's market access
  34. just 15 years' worth of emissions will raise sea level in 2300
  35. Dogs really can chase away loneliness
  36. Running may help you live longer but more isn't necessarily better
  37. Recycling plastic bottles is good, but reusing them is better
  38. Olivia Colman shines as an older, frumpier Elizabeth
  39. Scott Morrison wants to outlaw boycott campaigns. But the mining industry doesn't need protection
  40. What is ‘ecological economics’ and why do we need to talk about it?
  41. No Australian city has a long-term vision for living sustainably. We can't go on like this
  42. Asylum seekers left 'desperate' and 'helpless' when they try to find work in Australia
  43. India’s social media content removal order is a nail in the coffin of the internet as we know it
  44. how to teach science and maths so students actually care
  45. Why is Japan's Olympic marathon shifting cities to avoid the heat? A sports physiologist explains
  46. Attorney-General Christian Porter targets Market Forces in push against environment groups
  47. a small, gentle, important film that reveals the vulnerability of men
  48. Curious Kids: how do fish sleep?
  49. A new bill keeping 10 year olds out of jail is a good start, but it needs to go further
  50. Is the Morrison government 'authoritarian populist' with a punitive bent?

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