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JobKeeper $60 billion snafu like your house builder revising quote: Morrison

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Campaigning in Eden-Monaro with just-selected Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs, Scott Morrison on Sunday turned folksy to present the upside of the $60 billion JobKeeper forecasting snafu.

“If you’re building a house and the contractor comes to you and says it’s going to cost you $350,000 and they come back to you several months...

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Beware the 'cauldron of paranoia' as China and the US slide towards a new kind of cold war

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Beware the 'cauldron of paranoia' as China and the US slide towards a new kind of cold war

In September 2005, before an audience of some of the most powerful business figures in the United States, then US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick unveiled his “responsible stakeholder” formula for China’s global engagement.

China is big and growing… For the United States and the world the essential question is how...

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Treasury revises JobKeeper's cost down by massive $60 billion, sparking calls to widen eligibility

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The federal treasury has revised down by a massive $60 billion the estimated cost of the JobKeeper wage subsidy program, from an original $130 billion to $70 billion.

Treasury revealed its huge recalculation in a joint statement with the Australian Taxation Office, which also revealed there had been a large reporting error in estimates of the...

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Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up

  • Written by: Bill Corcoran, Lecturer & Research Fellow, Monash Photonic Communications Lab & InPAC, Monash University
Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep upThis tiny micro-comb chip produces a precision rainbow of light that can support transmission of 40 terabits of data per second in standard optic fibres. Corcoran et al., N.Comms., 2020, CC BY-SA

Our internet connections have never been more important to us, nor have they been under such strain. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made remote working,...

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  2. The WHO's coronavirus inquiry will be more diplomatic than decisive. But Australia should step up in the meantime
  3. Is it time to reopen our borders? For states still recording new cases, it's too soon
  4. How universities came to rely on international students
  5. 7 questions answered on how to socialise safely as coronavirus restrictions ease
  6. Michelle Grattan on the China-Australia trade war and state border policy
  7. New shows tell our isolation stories on screen – making the most of what's at hand
  8. What defines casual work? Federal Court ruling highlights a fundamental flaw in Australian labour law
  9. 3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan
  10. From spit to scrums. How can sports players minimise their coronavirus risk?
  11. Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia
  12. 'wolf warriors' ready to fight back
  13. Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes
  14. Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules
  15. Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge
  16. Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency
  17. the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
  18. Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
  19. Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts
  20. Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation
  21. Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?
  22. Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can't just snap back to 'normal' funding arrangements
  23. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  24. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  25. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  26. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  27. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  28. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  29. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  30. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  31. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  32. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  33. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  34. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
  35. After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it
  36. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  37. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  38. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  39. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  40. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  41. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  42. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  43. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  44. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  45. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  46. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
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  48. Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home
  49. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
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