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Australia may be closer to being a cashless society but it won't happen by 2020

  • Written by David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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The ABC has this week asked the question as to whether “Australia is on the brink of becoming a completely cashless society”. The question was sparked by the recent release of figures by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) showing a continued decline in Australian’s withdrawing cash...

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Late payments: the policy no-brainer for business

  • Written by Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

Hammurabi nailed it back in 1772 BC when he declared: “The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.”

When it came to common sense, the sixth king of Babylon was an “early adopter”, earlier than say the 29th prime minister of Australia whose government is still trying to force through tax cuts...

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Hanson stirs the sugar pot and backflips on penalty rates

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

The next big judgement day for Pauline Hanson will be the election in her home state of Queensland, due in under a year. Her vote there will determine how much fear she puts into the Coalition ahead of the federal election.

This is the broader context for Hanson’s threat (aka stunt) at the start of this parliamentary week, for One Nation to...

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The government is belatedly backing the penalty rates cut it always wanted

  • Written by David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University
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It’s impossible for the government to substantially ease the hardship for workers from the Fair Work Commission’s decision to cut some penalty rates — as the government’s submission into its implementation illustrates. Nor can it shirk responsibility for it.

The question on which the Commission had asked for submissions...

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  1. PolicyCheck: the government's new child care plan
  2. Co-working is evolving to combine co-living
  3. Green chemistry is key to reducing waste and improving sustainablity
  4. Something big exploded in a galaxy far, far away: what was it?
  5. Technology-facilitated abuse: the new breed of domestic violence
  6. Distress, status wars and immoral behaviour: the psychological impacts of inequality
  7. Health Check: are microgreens better for you than regular greens?
  8. Indians' 'notes ban' compliance masks a silent crisis of legitimacy
  9. Li Keqiang's visit a good sign for the China-Australia relationship
  10. Millions of Australian adults are unvaccinated and it's increasing disease risk for all of us
  11. There are more useful questions to ask than whether Australia has 'too many' charities
  12. Government behind 45-55% in Ipsos poll
  13. Drawings reveal the struggles and triumphs of child refugees in their first six months of high school
  14. Safe in the City? Girls tell it like it is
  15. Five golden rules to help solve your recycling dilemmas
  16. Recycling can be confusing, but it’s getting simpler
  17. Rising imports make the case for Trump's border adjustment tax in Australia
  18. Youth underemployment at four-decade peak: Brotherhood report
  19. Regression to the mean, or why perfection rarely lasts
  20. Estonia is putting its country in the cloud and offering virtual residency
  21. Why aren't more people using the My Health Record?
  22. Does everything and nothing change when a cyclist dies?
  23. Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach's The Art of Fugue
  24. How our species got smarter: through a rush of blood to the head
  25. Not-for-profits must adapt as one arm of government's 'three-sector solutions'
  26. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the backlash to the 18C changes
  27. Decriminalisation in the NT signals abortion is part of normal health care
  28. ASIC's CommInsure pass shows why badly behaving bankers will never fear jail time
  29. Sporting codes' deals with gambling companies force them into a Faustian bargain
  30. Friday essay: reading Germaine Greer's mail
  31. Capital gains tax concession is too generous: economists poll
  32. What languages should children be learning to get ahead?
  33. Australia could alleviate its youth justice crisis by importing the right ideas from the US
  34. Painkillers like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart disease and should be restricted
  35. Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...
  36. Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them
  37. How we edit science part 5: so what is science?
  38. Grattan on Friday: Barnaby Joyce is telling the government to listen to politics in the pub
  39. The metapolitical long game of the European New Right
  40. Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across
  41. Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
  42. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  43. Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.
  44. How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation
  45. FactCheck Q A: Has confidence in the media in Australia dropped lower than in the United States?
  46. Despite escalating prescriptions, nerve pain drug offers no relief for sciatica
  47. Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct
  48. Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
  49. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  50. NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing

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