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Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea

  • Written by: Warwick Smith, Research economist, University of Melbourne

This article is part of an election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read other pieces in the series here, here, here, here, and here.


Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised that a Labor government will work to increase the wages of Early Childhood Education and...

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We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians

  • Written by: Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous AustraliansDetail from a poster designed by the Indigenous creative agency Iscariot Media, which highlights the problem of cyberbullying. Author provided

As part of his re-election pitch, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised to crack down on online trolls, increasing the penalties for online harassment.

The Melbourne Demons, meanwhile, have announced a...

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Why Australia needs to kill cats

  • Written by: John Read, Associate Lecturer, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide

Introduced cats are a key threat to 123 of Australia’s threatened species.

The management of cats is challenging and divisive; many options such as rehoming, trap-neuter-release and euthanasia have been used around the world with varying success.

Australia’s recent commitment to killing 2 million feral cats to protect its native...

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How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years

  • Written by: Dietmar Müller, Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney
How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of yearsPhotographed on Kangaroo Island, this rock – called a ‘zebra schist’ – deformed from flat-lying marine sediments through being stressed by a continental collision over 500 million years agoDietmar Muller, CC BY

Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s.

It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made...

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  5. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  6. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  7. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  8. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  9. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  10. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  11. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  12. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  13. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  14. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  15. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  16. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  17. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  18. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  19. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  20. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  21. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  22. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next
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  24. how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
  25. Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign
  26. the big tech business model
  27. why don't horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?
  28. how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice
  29. Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology
  30. For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter
  31. The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan
  32. is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?
  33. How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy
  34. What are the major parties promising on health this election?
  35. Bill Shorten's promise of a living wage is both realistic and necessary. But it's not enough.
  36. On rate-cut Tuesday, here are four reasons why the Reserve Bank shouldn't jump
  37. 'Revolutionary change' needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
  38. El Niño has rapidly become stronger and stranger, according to coral records
  39. Move away from a car-dominated city looks radical but it's a sensible plan for a liveable future
  40. Inside the story: The Merger
  41. rediscovering the genesis of a film classic
  42. Richard Eccleston on the electoral mood in Tasmania
  43. millions of Indian youth are underemployed and going to the polls
  44. Labor's election pledge to improve Australian diets is a first – now we need action, not just 'consideration'
  45. Sexual aggression key to spread of deadly tumours in Tasmanian devils
  46. Endgame and why a smaller population doesn't guarantee paradise
  47. Greens on track for stability, rather than growth, this election
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