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Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison finds himself in a week of pain

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

It’s been an unfortunate few days for Scott Morrison. First he blew up a key part of his media strategy, and then one of his options for addressing housing affordability turned very sour.

Morrison notoriously plays media favourites, and high on his preferred list has been 2GB’s Ray Hadley, with whom he’s had a regular Monday...

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Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on Australian self-reliance

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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In a speech to the National Press Club on Thursday, former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans lambasted US President Donald Trump and called on Australia to become more self-reliant. Evans described Trump as “manifestly the most ill-informed, under-prepared, ethically challenged and psychologically ill-equipped president in...

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Expert panel: ATO data shows inequality is in everything from super to the property market

  • Written by Jenni Henderson, Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
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The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released data for 2014-15 that paints a picture of how much Australians earn and what they claim in tax concessions. We asked our tax experts to tell us what the data says to them.

John Daley and Danielle Wood, The Grattan Institute

The latest data from the ATO is consistent with what we’ve seen in the...

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Here's how superannuation is already financing homes

  • Written by James Giesecke, Professor, Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Victoria University
imageAt least ten cents in every dollar of superannuation assets is indirectly financing house purchases via commercial bank debt.AAP/Lukas Coch

The federal government is split on whether first home buyers in Australia should be allowed to use part of their superannuation for home deposits. But what the more strident critics miss is that...

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  2. Don't worry, the odds of catching legionnaires' disease in Melbourne are pretty slim
  3. Millions of rotting fish: turtles and crays can save us from Carpageddon
  4. Syria is a mess, but the solution is complicated too
  5. Explainer: the war in Syria and the possibility of removing Assad
  6. When it comes to euthanasia, not all slippery slope arguments are 'bullshit'
  7. Why does the Carmichael coal mine need to use so much water?
  8. Explainer: why some acts are classified as terrorism but others aren't
  9. What is 'success' in drug rehab? Programs need more than just anecdotes to prove they work
  10. How the blockchain will transform housing markets
  11. Guide to the Classics: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
  12. The school of hard knocks: driverless cars should learn lessons from crashes
  13. How murals helped turn a declining community around
  14. Anti-Trump backlash at US by-elections
  15. Australia’s climate bomb: the senselessness of Adani's Carmichael coal mine
  16. Attacking North Korea: surely Donald Trump couldn't be that foolish
  17. Health Check: does caffeine cause dehydration?
  18. Explainer: how wage growth contributes to the economy
  19. Back-to-back bleaching has now hit two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef
  20. How pop culture can (and should) change legal views on swearing
  21. Australia and India: some way to go yet
  22. Flu vaccine won't definitely stop you from getting the flu, but it's more important than you think
  23. Who owns the world? Tracing half the corporate giants' shares to 30 owners
  24. The research on hot-desking and activity-based work isn't so positive
  25. Denial: a timely reminder that we should confront distortions of history
  26. Feeling helpless about the Great Barrier Reef? Here's one way you can help
  27. Live fast, die young: a massive 'dead red' galaxy seen for the first time
  28. Unlocking the secrets of street ambience
  29. What we know about the April 4 chemical attack in Syria
  30. 30 years of Rage, and no signs of quietening
  31. The end of Catalyst: four ironies
  32. First results from the 2016 Census paint a picture of who the 'typical' Australian is
  33. Snout, sniff and sneeze: the language of the nose
  34. Census 2016: Women are still disadvantaged by the amount of unpaid housework they do
  35. Tobacco tax hikes are great, so long as you’re not a poor smoker
  36. Three charts on Australia's growing appetite for fast broadband
  37. John Clarke: an unsurpassed craftsman of the Australasian voice
  38. Why glamorising narco culture, on screen and in Sydney's pop-up shop, is wrong
  39. Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint
  40. Explainer: shadow banking and where it came from
  41. Where are they now? What public transport data reveal about lockout laws and nightlife patronage
  42. Yes, car seats protect children. But you need the right restraint, fitted properly
  43. Affordable housing, finger-pointing politics and possible policy solutions
  44. Parents' reactions can lessen or worsen pain for injured kids
  45. Farewell John Clarke: in an absurd world, we have never needed you more
  46. Why it's the right time for Australia and India to collaborate on higher education
  47. FactCheck: do 679 of Australia's biggest corporations pay 'not one cent' of tax?
  48. Australian politics explainer: Robert Menzies and the birth of the Liberal-National coalition
  49. Is Paris climate deal really 'cactus', and would it matter if it was?
  50. How to make your next sexual health check less, erm ... awkward

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