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Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars

  • Written by: Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollarsNewstart should be lifted by mush more than usually proposed, a new ANU algorithm finds.Shutterstock

It would be unlikely if our current welfare system gave us the best possible value for the A$120 billion we hand out in benefits each year.

For one thing, we live, work, and arrange families differently to what we did in earlier decades, but the size...

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a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please

  • Written by: Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics, UNSW

It has been called “the Kylie effect”, after one of Australia’s most famous exports.

It is the path taken by Australians wanting to crack the big time in Britain. Long before pop princess Kylie Minogue hit the stage, indeed, the path was well-worn – including by bands like the Easybeats and AC/DC, and writers like Germaine...

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Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains

  • Written by: Shaun Adams, Isotope Bioarchaeologist Research Fellow, Griffith University
Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remainsThe excavations at the Normanton site in 2015. Shaun Adams, Author provided

The poor health conditions of eight young Aboriginal people who died around the time of early European colonisation have been revealed in their skeletal remains, according to a new study.

The bones provide evidence of the displacement of Indigenous Australians from their...

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Australia's problem with Aboriginal World Heritage

  • Written by: Ian Lilley, Professor in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, The University of Queensland
Australia's problem with Aboriginal World HeritageUluru-Kata Tjuta: of 19 Australian World Heritage sites this is one of only two that recognise the values of 'living' Aboriginal culture.Shutterstock

Journalist Stan Grant once compared our Indigenous cultural heritage to the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Ironically, though Grant pointed to the Lake Mungo site in the Willandra Lakes as an...

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  7. An opt-out system isn't the solution to Australia's low rate of organ donation
  8. What the Victorian government's decision not to sign on to the Gonski reforms means for schools in the new year
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  15. Morrison government promises $1.25 billion for health care
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  18. why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
  19. ACCC wants to curb digital platform power – but enforcement is tricky
  20. Will the new Mary Poppins film acknowledge the suffragettes' success?
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  24. Huawei executive's arrest will further test an already shaky US-China relationship
  25. Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big time
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  27. Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's how
  28. Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'
  29. As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution
  30. Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space
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