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A better alternative to levying the bank tax

  • Written by: Kevin Davis, Research Director of Australian Centre for FInancial Studies and Professor of Finance at Melbourne and Monash Universities, Australian Centre for Financial Studies

In all the noise and fury surrounding the bank tax, a more effective alternative proposal to implementing it has apparently been forgotten. In 2015 South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill proposed that banking should be subject to the GST.

This idea had much sounder economic underpinnings than the current levy, would have raised much more revenue...

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Report sparks concern about how schools support students with disabilities

  • Written by: Peter Walker, Lecturer in Special Education, Flinders University
imageStudents with disabilities are regularly segregated from their peers in the playground, classroom and lessons.from shutterstock.com

Two years ago a South Australian select committee was formed to inquire into the educational experiences of students with disabilities. The committee’s remit was to determine what was working well, and what...

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The three-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the tail

  • Written by: Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne
imageIce cores are a window into the past hundreds of thousands of years. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Ludovic Brucker

There are those who say the climate has always changed, and that carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated. That’s true. But it’s also true that since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have...

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Regulator failing to resolve complaints on alleged human rights abuses by Australian companies

  • Written by: Shelley Marshall, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, expert in corporate accountability, RMIT University

The Australian National Contact Point (ANCP) was set up as part of Australia’s membership of the OECD to hear complaints on the way Australian corporations operate overseas, but research shows it’s poorly resourced and rejects most claims at the initial assessment stage, raising concerns about its effectiveness.

There are National...

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