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Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument

  • Written by: Dallas Rogers, Urban Studies Researcher: Institute for Culture and Society & Urban Research Program, Western Sydney University
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The government is proposing changes to the foreign investment framework that will allow a foreign real estate investor to purchase an off-the-plan dwelling when another foreign investor has failed to reach settlement.

In announcing the changes, Treasurer Scott Morrison deployed a familiar narrative about foreign investment increasing housing supply...

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Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb

  • Written by: Gwyn McClelland, Oral historian and associate, Japanese history, Monash University
imageShin'ya Tsukamoto (right) and Andrew Garfield in Silence (2016). Cappa Defina Productions

Today, Martin Scorsese’s Silence will have its premiere at the Vatican, where it will be screened to hundreds of Roman Catholic priests. The famed director’s first foray into East Asia links to familiar themes of Catholic guilt and redemption, as...

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Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it

  • Written by: Jane Bullen, Research Associate, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Australia
imageAustralia’s social safety net is not doing nearly enough to counter the economic harms of violence.shutterstock

While Australia has a national conversation on domestic violence, some of the harms of this violence remain in the shadows. The ways violence degrades women’s financial status and access to economic resources are particularly...

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How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?

  • Written by: Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University, James Cook University

Two-thirds of the corals in the northern part of the Great Barrier Reef have died on in the reef’s worst-ever bleaching event, according to our latest underwater surveys.

On some reefs in the north, nearly all the corals have died. However the impact of bleaching eases as we move south, and reefs in the central and southern regions (around...

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