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Government to set up new multi-billion Future Drought Fund

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

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will announce a Future Drought Fund, that will grow to $5 billion over a decade, at Friday’s national drought summit.

The fund is to provide support against future droughts, helping primary producers, non-government organisations and communities prepare for and respond to their impact.

It will be given an initial...

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Australia's 5% jobless rate is not full employment; pushing up interest rates would be wrong

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
Australia's 5% jobless rate is not full employment; pushing up interest rates would be wrongAustralia's unemployment rate is at what would once been regarded as full employment. But that doesn't mean it can't fall further.Shutterstock

According to ABS figures released last week, the unemployment rate in Australia has fallen to 5%. This isn’t as low as the 3.7% level in the United States, but by historical standards it is low for us.

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Please, not another super scheme, Mr Keating. It's what the pension is for

  • Written by: Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University

Talk about a solution seeking a problem.

Former prime minister Paul Keating this week called for a national insurance scheme to support Australians aged 80 and over.

He says it will be needed to pay medical and other bills when super runs out, often around the age of 80.

We already have such a scheme. It’s called the age pension.


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Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten today

  • Written by: John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
Ancient fish evolved in shallow seas – the very places humans threaten todayA member of a rare group of 410-million-year-old jawless fishes from Australia meets a mate along the shoreline (artist's impression).Nobumichi Tamura

You walk and talk and live on land, but your ancient relatives were fish.

It took about 480 million years for these fish to evolve and adapt to different environments and become the many different...

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  5. Can your actions really save the planet? 'Planetary accounting' has the answer
  6. Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars
  7. why removing sex from birth certificates matters to gender diverse people
  8. Working to reclaim and rebuild our food systems from the ground up
  9. add bars to the window dressing and make them legally binding
  10. Pianist Sir András Schiff returns to Sydney for a sublime recital
  11. launch of The Conversation 2018 Yearbook
  12. Why Australia needs a Religious Discrimination Act
  13. things to consider before going that extra mile for your smile
  14. Why DNA tests for Indigenous heritage mean different things in Australia and the US
  15. Sabrina the teenage witch is back, with a darker look for our times
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  18. Former Home Affairs officer calls for all refugees to be brought to Australia
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  21. Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right
  22. The fair go is a fading dream, but don't write it off
  23. foreign donations and political influence
  24. Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conversion
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  28. New research shines light on sexual violence at Australian music festivals
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  30. Do chatbots have a role to play in suicide prevention?
  31. Working out what makes a good community where young children can thrive
  32. We must look past short-term drought solutions and improve the land itself
  33. Scott Morrison eases refugee policy while talking tough
  34. Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women
  35. As children are airlifted from Nauru, a cruel and inhumane policy may finally be ending
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  37. The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
  38. A priest says sceptics should stop demanding proof of climate change, as that's not how science works
  39. Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool
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