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It's harder for governments to tax their way out of rising inequality

  • Written by Chris Doucouliagos, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Higher inequality makes it harder to raise taxes and therefore redistribute income to fight its spread, our analysis shows. This is because in the past, on average, inequality has reduced the amount of income tax governments can collect as a share of GDP.

We also found a similar, though smaller, effect with less visible indirect taxes. Our findings...

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'Empowerment' feminism is not working – we need a far more radical approach to gender equality

  • Written by Eva Cox, Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
imageAn International Women's Day protest march in Sydney.AAP

International Women’s Day has come and gone, leaving the annual short burst attention to “women’s issues” in its wake. So now is a good time to look at what emerged from it, and whether gender equity has stalled.

Simone de Beauvoir famously said that women are the...

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Did Indigenous warriors influence the development of Australian rules football?

  • Written by Robert Pascoe, Dean Laureate and Professor of History, Victoria University
imageIn a painting such as Warriors of New South Wales, 1813, we can easily imagine a group of men ready to take to the football field.Australian War Memorial

There are aspects of Australian rules football that never fail to puzzle the uninitiated.

The game has its straight up and down plays – the long-kicking and high-marking that seem to give the...

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Snowy hydro scheme will be left high and dry unless we look after the mountains

  • Written by Adrienne Nicotra, Professor Research School of Biology, the Australian National University, Australian National University

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s plan for a A$2 billion upgrade and expansion of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme, announced last week, will be an impressive engineering achievement. Snowy Hydro 2.0 will increase the scheme’s capacity by 50%.

Meeting this extra capacity will depend entirely on the natural water supply available...

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  1. How we edit science part 4: how to talk about risk, and words and images not to use
  2. The US just made flying harder for millions. Tips for dealing with the laptop ban
  3. National Science Statement a positive gesture but lacks policy solutions: experts
  4. Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do
  5. Western Australia's welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
  6. Swisse cheese: there are too many holes in complementary medicine regulations already
  7. Film review: A Plastic Ocean shows us a world awash with rubbish
  8. Commercialise my footy: how the AFL's grip on the game shrinks the fans' role
  9. You can't rely on fish oil supplements in pregnancy to make your children smarter
  10. Proposed changes may confuse rather than clarify the meaning of Section 18C
  11. The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas
  12. Trump's credibility takes a hit as FBI finds no evidence of Obama 'wiretap'
  13. How to reduce dependency on drugs like Valium with alternative therapies
  14. How electric cars can help save the grid
  15. How we edit science part 3: impact, curiosity and red flags
  16. In a miserable year, the Adelaide Festival brought us joy
  17. Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade
  18. Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor
  19. Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate
  20. Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first
  21. How healthy soils make for a healthy life
  22. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  23. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  24. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  25. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  26. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  27. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  28. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  29. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  30. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review
  31. After the robo-debt debacle, here's how Centrelink can win back Australians' trust
  32. Infographic: the truth behind Centrelink's waiting times
  33. Higher child support doesn't lead to welfare dependency for single mums
  34. When politicians listen to scientists, we all benefit
  35. Government needs to front up billions, not millions, to save Australia's threatened species
  36. What we may think are the healthiest bread and wrap options actually have the most salt
  37. Grammarians rejoice in the <br>$10 million comma</br>
  38. Secrecy on land titles registry sale helps keep bidders' tax haven links quiet
  39. How do you remember a rock god? The complicated legacy of Chuck Berry
  40. Contested spaces: the 'long-grassers', living private lives in public places
  41. Health Check: is sleepwalking problematic and can it be 'cured'?
  42. Government cracks down on secret company payments to unions
  43. When things go wrong in an automated world, would we still know what to do?
  44. With battery storage to the rescue, the Kodak moment for renewables has finally arrived
  45. Boards must do more to stamp out wrongdoing that damages trust in charities
  46. Planet or dwarf planet: all worlds are worth investigating
  47. Gas crisis? Energy crisis? The real problem is lack of long-term planning
  48. Women are dropping out of economics, which means men are running our economy
  49. Value capture: a good idea to fund infrastructure but not easy in practice
  50. How obesity causes cancer, and may make screening and treatment harder

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