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Shorten's budget reply will outbid government on tax relief for low income earners

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

Bill Shorten will again seek to raise the stakes in the tax debate, as well as unveil a major health initiative, in his Thursday night budget reply.

With a health announcement its centrepiece, Labor is casting the speech as a launching pad for a heavy focus on Medicare in their election campaign.

It is characterising the health measure as a bold...

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federal budget will widen gap between rich and poor

  • Written by: Robert Tanton, Professor, Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, University of Canberra
federal budget will widen gap between rich and poorshutterstock

The Morrison government’s pre-election budget has not been the bonanza some predicted. It is a fairly modest affair.

But calculations by the the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, based at the University of Canberra, show the budget will widen the gap between rich and poor. This is because changes to the tax and...

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Goodbye Google+, but what happens when online communities close down?

  • Written by: Stan Karanasios, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
Goodbye Google+, but what happens when online communities close down?Google+ is the latest online community to close.Shutterstock/rvlsoft

This week saw the closure of Google+, an attempt by the online giant to create a social media community to rival Facebook.

If the Australian usage of Google+ is anything to go by – just 45,000 users in March compared to Facebook’s 15 million – it never really...

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Coral reproduction on the Great Barrier Reef falls 89% after repeated bleaching

  • Written by: Morgan Pratchett, Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University

The severe and repeated bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef has not only damaged corals, it has reduced the reef’s ability to recover.

Our research, published today in Nature, found far fewer baby corals are being produced than are needed to replace the large number of adult corals that have died. The rate at which baby corals are settling on...

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