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The best way to boost the economy is the best way to improve the lives of disadvantaged students

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

What if we had an opportunity to double the size of the tourism industry, or to quadruple the size of the beef industry, or to boost the economy by more than any of the presently proposed tax switches?

What if we could do it while permanently improving the lives of disadvantaged young people?

We surely wouldn’t let it slip away.

Yet we do every...

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Former Home Affairs officer calls for all refugees to be brought to Australia

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

A former Home Affairs officer who worked in the refugee area has called for the resettlement of all refugees and asylum seekers from Nauru and Manus in Australia, arguing this could be done without putting at risk our borders.

In a paper being sent to all federal parliamentarians, Shaun Hanns argues that current policy is based on an unfounded...

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Here's how to design cities where people and nature can both flourish

  • Written by: Georgia Garrard, Senior Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group, RMIT University
Here's how to design cities where people and nature can both flourishAn impression of biodiversity sensitive urban design (BSUD) developed by the authors in collaboration with Mauro Baracco, Jonathan Ware and Catherine Horwill of RMIT's School of Architecture and Design.Author provided

Urban nature has a critical role to play in the future liveability of cities. An emerging body of research reveals that bringing...

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What causes multiple sclerosis? What we know, don't know and suspect

  • Written by: Trevor Kilpatrick, Professor of neurologist and clinical director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
What causes multiple sclerosis? What we know, don't know and suspectPeople exposed to low levels of sunlight are more likely to have MS than those who live in warm climates.chuttersnap

US actress Selma Blair announced on the weekend she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “I have probably had this incurable disease for 15 years at least,” she wrote. “And I am relieved to at least...

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  1. Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right
  2. The fair go is a fading dream, but don't write it off
  3. foreign donations and political influence
  4. Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conversion
  5. Why is a magpie's poo black and white?
  6. The internet has done a lot, but so far little for economic growth
  7. the myth that obscures the real problem
  8. New research shines light on sexual violence at Australian music festivals
  9. What is 'quality' in aged care? Here's what studies (and our readers) say
  10. Do chatbots have a role to play in suicide prevention?
  11. Working out what makes a good community where young children can thrive
  12. We must look past short-term drought solutions and improve the land itself
  13. Scott Morrison eases refugee policy while talking tough
  14. Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women
  15. As children are airlifted from Nauru, a cruel and inhumane policy may finally be ending
  16. 'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downside
  17. The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
  18. A priest says sceptics should stop demanding proof of climate change, as that's not how science works
  19. Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool
  20. Helping farmers in distress doesn't help them be the best: the drought relief dilemma
  21. How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illness
  22. Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?
  23. Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation
  24. Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by Coalition
  25. Chocolate Labradors die earlier than yellow or black, and have more disease
  26. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini's opera, Otello
  27. Why children in institutional care may be worse off now than they were in the 19th century
  28. how much physical activity is enough in older age?
  29. Why do flies vomit on their food?
  30. The five stages of grief don't come in fixed steps – everyone feels differently
  31. The national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse matters. Here's why
  32. is the Coalition spending '$1 billion extra, every year' on aged care?
  33. David Goldblatt's kind, calm photographs of South Africa exist in a morality minefield
  34. Nauru's life on the frontlines
  35. Some cybersecurity apps could be worse for privacy than nothing at all
  36. Turning 'big brother' surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless
  37. Wentworth mightn't be typical but it's the shrill canary in the mine
  38. Phelps consolidates her lead in Wentworth after nail biting day
  39. what is a hung parliament and how would it affect the passage of legislation?
  40. Wentworth byelection called too early for Phelps as Liberals recover in late counting
  41. Australia's native rhododendrons hide in the high mountain forests
  42. Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth swing, bringing a hung parliament
  43. William Forsythe's A Quiet Evening of Dance is surprising, amusing, but precise
  44. what's on the menu for Australia's top predator?
  45. With a billion reasons not to trust super trustees, we need regulators to act in the public interest
  46. One year on for Ardern's coalition government in New Zealand
  47. When Thailand and Australia were closer neighbours, tectonically speaking
  48. climate snake oil or the 1.5-degree panacea?
  49. Michelle Grattan on Morrison's pitch for the Jewish vote in Wentworth
  50. Pacific nations aren't cash-hungry, minister, they just want action on climate change

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