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FactCheck: Has the job market got so bad that 'people have stopped looking for work'?

  • Written by: Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University

No wonder, when you have a participation rate that’s in free fall. Last month there was a fall by 0.2%, another 0.2%, it is now at 64.5%. What that indicates is that people have stopped looking for work. – Shadow minister for employment and workplace relations, Brendan O'Connor, doorstop interview, October 20, 2016.

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Changes to Australia's marine reserves leave our oceans unprotected

  • Written by: Jessica Meeuwig, Professor & Director, Centre for Marine Futures, University of Western Australia
imageMarlin are one of the prized fish in Australia's oceans. Marlin image from www.shutterstock.com

Ocean health relies on a strong backbone of protection and management. Marine reserves can be part of the solution, but only if they’re constructed in the right way. Recent recommendations on Australia’s marine reserves would leave more ocean...

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Why I'm spending three months sailing right around Antarctica for science

  • Written by: Nina Schuback, Researcher, Remote Sensing and Satellite Research Group, Curtin University
imageThe Balleny Islands off East Antarctica - one of the many stops along the way.Krudller/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Spending three months inside a metal container on board an icebreaker in the Southern Ocean, filtering water while attempting to ignore freezing temperatures and huge ocean swells outside. It’s not everyone’s idea of fun...

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  1. Grattan on Friday: Morrison opens housing affordability debate but can he control it?
  2. Phantom brands haunting our supermarket shelves as home brand in disguise
  3. Full response from a spokesman for Brendan O'Connor
  4. The problems with AT T's bid for Time Warner
  5. Cosmic coincidence: the International Space Station passes by Venus and Saturn
  6. Race to the White House - how gender, race and class are shaping the election
  7. Removal of 'double dipping' from parental leave may impact mothers' health
  8. Body-worn cameras are not a panacea for poor policing
  9. FactCheck: is wage growth at record lows?
  10. Full response from a spokesperson for Chris Bowen
  11. Do we thank science for all our prosperity?
  12. What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
  13. On the difficulty of being a world citizen
  14. Pitting mozzies against mozzies to stop the spread of disease
  15. Will the Great Barrier Reef recover from its worst-ever bleaching?
  16. Made in China: three ways Chinese business has evolved from imitation to innovation
  17. Supportive housing is cheaper than chronic homelessness
  18. A new breed of post-Trump populist leaders could put the US on the path to fascism
  19. State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO
  20. Crimes of grammar and other writing misdemeanours
  21. How discrimination and stressful events affect the health of our Indigenous kids
  22. Deaths at Dreamworld theme park could lead to safety changes for amusement rides
  23. Business Briefing: being funny with customers
  24. Another prime minister, another endorsement for coal – but why?
  25. Turnbull's Newspoll ratings slump continues
  26. Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer
  27. A Trump presidency could bring a range of economic disasters
  28. New APRA guidance on lending will hurt home owners when it should be the banks
  29. Robert Manne: How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers
  30. Looking Back at Italy 1992: Internet Politics comes of age
  31. Wrapping up the fantasy - how will Game of Thrones end?
  32. What causes mind blanks during exams?
  33. 'He' vs 'she' in Australian media coverage: what the language of news tells us about gender imbalance
  34. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on The Secret Cold War - The Official History of ASIO
  35. Piketty challenges us to consider if we need to rein in wealth inequality
  36. Why sugar is so much worse for teenagers' brains
  37. Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
  38. Senate committee on ABS #CensusFail still points to basic failures on IBM's part
  39. Gateway classes: a pattern for interacting with external services
  40. How is the American President elected?
  41. Brandis mishandles a fight he should never have had
  42. How can doctors use technology to help them diagnose?
  43. Melanesia's oceans are worth US$5.4 billion but are at environmental crossroads
  44. Change Agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia's most radical reform of local government
  45. Paid parental leave plan ignores economics of well-functioning families
  46. Blockchain: reinventing the squeaky wheel
  47. Women's alcohol consumption catching up to men: why this matters
  48. Role of Solicitor-General has been damaged and the government must work to fix it
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