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Rising imports make the case for Trump's border adjustment tax in Australia

  • Written by Giovanni Di Lieto, Lecturer, Bachelor of International Business, Monash Business School, Monash University

Australia currently has a trade deficit, where what we import outweighs what we export. Amid the ongoing debate on the benefits of globalised trade and jobs, a Trump style border adjustment tax could be one solution.

It’s commonly assumed that rising imports are a drag on the economy, as they subtract from the GDP equation. The...

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Youth underemployment at four-decade peak: Brotherhood report

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

Underemployment among young people is now at its highest in the 40 years since it has been officially counted, according to a report from the Brotherhood of St Laurence released on Monday.

In February underemployment was 18% of the youth labour force, affecting even more young people than unemployment, which was 13.5%.

In total, some 659,000 young...

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Regression to the mean, or why perfection rarely lasts

  • Written by Adrian Barnett, Professor of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology
imageA perfect night out involves a lot of chance.Shutterstock

Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns. In this series we look at some of the common mistakes we make and how to avoid them when thinking about statistics,...

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Estonia is putting its country in the cloud and offering virtual residency

  • Written by David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Estonia is a small country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe with a population of 1.3 million and a GDP of US $23 billion, roughly 10% of Apple’s annual earnings.

Since its independence from Russia in 1991, Estonia has been rapidly implementing a digital economy. It established online voting in 2007, has...

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  1. Why aren't more people using the My Health Record?
  2. Does everything and nothing change when a cyclist dies?
  3. Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach's The Art of Fugue
  4. How our species got smarter: through a rush of blood to the head
  5. Not-for-profits must adapt as one arm of government's 'three-sector solutions'
  6. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the backlash to the 18C changes
  7. Decriminalisation in the NT signals abortion is part of normal health care
  8. ASIC's CommInsure pass shows why badly behaving bankers will never fear jail time
  9. Sporting codes' deals with gambling companies force them into a Faustian bargain
  10. Friday essay: reading Germaine Greer's mail
  11. Capital gains tax concession is too generous: economists poll
  12. What languages should children be learning to get ahead?
  13. Australia could alleviate its youth justice crisis by importing the right ideas from the US
  14. Painkillers like ibuprofen can increase the risk of heart disease and should be restricted
  15. Vital Signs: if it looks like a bubble and sounds like a bubble...
  16. Three rivers are now legally people – but that's just the start of looking after them
  17. How we edit science part 5: so what is science?
  18. Grattan on Friday: Barnaby Joyce is telling the government to listen to politics in the pub
  19. The metapolitical long game of the European New Right
  20. Let me entertain you – that's how to get a science message across
  21. Australia's copyright reform could bring millions of books and other reads to the blind
  22. National Science Statement does little to bring industry and researchers together
  23. Research suggests motherhood has changed my brain.
  24. How 19th century fairy tales expressed anxieties about ecological devastation
  25. FactCheck Q A: Has confidence in the media in Australia dropped lower than in the United States?
  26. Despite escalating prescriptions, nerve pain drug offers no relief for sciatica
  27. Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct
  28. Terror in London: Western cities will always be vulnerable to these attacks
  29. Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it
  30. NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing
  31. Flying into uncertainty: Western Sydney's 'aerotropolis' poses more questions than answers
  32. Here's how much it would cost the government to pay everyone who takes care of family with mental illness
  33. It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality
  34. 'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality
  35. Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?
  36. Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains
  37. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  38. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  39. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  40. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  41. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  42. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  43. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  44. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  45. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  46. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  47. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  48. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  49. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  50. How electric cars can help save the grid

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