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The government shouldn't use super to help low-income savers

  • Written by: John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute

Compulsory superannuation payments help many middle-income earners to save more for retirement, but super is simply the wrong tool to provide an adequate support for low-income earners. Our analysis shows top-up measures targeted at helping this group save for retirement are poorly targeted and an expensive way to do so.

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Raimond Gaita on Donald Trump's America: a cloud cuckoo land devoid of fact, evidence and argument

  • Written by: Raimond Gaita, Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Arts and the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Many people in America and elsewhere are scared of what Donald Trump will do. As I write, some are in the street protesting that he is not “their president”. Type “What did Trump say?” into Google and it will be obvious why.

Many of the same people are also bewildered, still incredulous that he became even the Republican...

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Forty years of measuring the world's cleanest air reveals human fingerprints on the atmosphere

  • Written by: Sam Cleland, Officer in Charge, Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

In 2016, an isolated scientific outpost in northwest Tasmania made a historic finding. The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station measured carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere exceeding 400 parts per million.

This wasn’t the first time the world has breached the symbolic climate change threshold – that honour was reached by the nor...

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  2. Women aren't the problem in the film industry, men are
  3. Why virtual reality won't replace cadavers in medical school
  4. Nothing to see here? The abuse and neglect of children in care is a century-old story in Australia
  5. Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky
  6. If smoking doesn't kill, Mike Pence, neither does the plague
  7. Underwater health check shows kelp forests are declining around the world
  8. Women in prison: histories of trauma and abuse highlight the need for specialised care
  9. Why was Shakespeare's death such at non-event at the time?
  10. Australian business should hold fire in reacting to Trump election
  11. Scabies: a neglected parasitic disease we already know how to treat
  12. Xenophon tells voters he's still considering lifetime ban bill
  13. World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
  14. Be prepared, always: the tsunami message from New Zealand's latest earthquake
  15. What happened in New Zealand's magnitude 7.5 earthquake
  16. Health Check: is cheese good for you?
  17. Trump’s victory spells trouble but also exciting, unimagined opportunities
  18. Policy uncertainty continues to hamper carbon emissions management
  19. To understand how storms batter Australia, we need a fresh deluge of data
  20. Plan to reduce Indigenous suicides finally acknowledges lack of evidence and need for hope
  21. Clinton's loss was not because of sexism, but because she wasn't radical enough
  22. Fossil fuel emissions have stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016
  23. US deal is a good news story for refugees -- here's why it took so long
  24. Turnbull's asylum seeker ban violates Australia's human rights obligations
  25. Franchisees don't do their homework and are too optimistic about risks: research
  26. Why Trump's victory will mean the end of US soft power
  27. David Hockney interrogates space and time
  28. Sexually transmissible infections on the rise in Australia: a snapshot
  29. We need more support systems for people who want to work during and after cancer treatment
  30. Tasmanian devils reared in captivity show they can thrive in the wild
  31. IBM's Watson would do a better job at being a bank teller than most current staff
  32. A deal to be welcomed but detail is missing
  33. Australia shores up defences against asylum seekers as US deal provides escape for refugees
  34. Newspoll: Labor gains to lead 53-47
  35. A blaze of light in every word: vale Leonard Cohen
  36. The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami
  37. As a writer-musician, Leonard Cohen was a one-off
  38. Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light
  39. Trump's win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
  40. On a bad day, some blue sky..
  41. What's behind the Trump bump in markets
  42. What might a Trump presidency mean for Muslims and the Muslim world?
  43. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia's reaction to the Trump victory
  44. Most men don't realise age is a factor in their fertility too
  45. President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
  46. Trickle down Trump-economics is not the fiscal policy the world needs
  47. Australia should assume Trump won't step back from his campaign commitments
  48. The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region
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