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Supportive housing is cheaper than chronic homelessness

  • Written by: Cameron Parsell, Research Fellow, homelessness, social welfare, and poverty, The University of Queensland
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It costs the state government more to keep a person chronically homeless than it costs to provide permanent supportive housing to end homelessness, our recent research shows.

Over a 12-month period, people who were chronically homeless used state government funded services that cost approximately A$48,217 each. Over another 12-month period...

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A new breed of post-Trump populist leaders could put the US on the path to fascism

  • Written by: Mark Triffitt, Lecturer, Public Policy and Politics, University of Melbourne

Donald Trump’s apparent derailment as a serious contender for the White House has brought sighs of relief from many political observers. But the future of US politics remains far from benign.

Trump has given voice to tens of millions of Americans expressing a hardening discontent with the political and economic status quo. The divide between...

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State of the Climate 2016: Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO

  • Written by: Karl Braganza, Manager, Climate Monitoring Section, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
imageAustralia's oceans are heating up. Richard Rydge/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO have released their fourth biennial State of the Climate Report.

State of the Climate 2016 provides an update on the changes and long-term trends in Australia’s climate. The report’s observations are based on the extensive...

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Crimes of grammar and other writing misdemeanours

  • Written by: Roslyn Petelin, Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
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Writing an article like this is just asking for trouble. Already, I can hear one reader asking “Why do you need just?” Another suggesting that like should be replaced by such as. And yet another saying “fancy using a cliché like asking for trouble!”

Another will mutter: “Where’s...

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  5. Turnbull's Newspoll ratings slump continues
  6. Life interrupted: young people need help moving forward after cancer
  7. A Trump presidency could bring a range of economic disasters
  8. New APRA guidance on lending will hurt home owners when it should be the banks
  9. Robert Manne: How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers
  10. Looking Back at Italy 1992: Internet Politics comes of age
  11. Wrapping up the fantasy - how will Game of Thrones end?
  12. What causes mind blanks during exams?
  13. 'He' vs 'she' in Australian media coverage: what the language of news tells us about gender imbalance
  14. Politics podcast: John Blaxland on The Secret Cold War - The Official History of ASIO
  15. Piketty challenges us to consider if we need to rein in wealth inequality
  16. Why sugar is so much worse for teenagers' brains
  17. Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
  18. Senate committee on ABS #CensusFail still points to basic failures on IBM's part
  19. Gateway classes: a pattern for interacting with external services
  20. How is the American President elected?
  21. Brandis mishandles a fight he should never have had
  22. How can doctors use technology to help them diagnose?
  23. Melanesia's oceans are worth US$5.4 billion but are at environmental crossroads
  24. Change Agents: Stuart Morris and Leonie Hemingway on Australia's most radical reform of local government
  25. Paid parental leave plan ignores economics of well-functioning families
  26. Blockchain: reinventing the squeaky wheel
  27. Women's alcohol consumption catching up to men: why this matters
  28. Role of Solicitor-General has been damaged and the government must work to fix it
  29. Behind the scenes: creative commons publishing
  30. Reducing food waste could put birds and animals at risk
  31. Challenging the ‘birthright lottery’ can provide a better way to view refugees
  32. The election of Hillary Clinton promises a more dangerous world
  33. Asian home buyers less likely to default on their mortgage: study
  34. There’s no ‘Mars curse’ – it's just very hard to land there
  35. Toilet training from birth? It is possible
  36. Ambivalent, exquisite and playful: the wonder of Viktor Rolf
  37. 10 tips for eating locally and cutting the energy used to produce your food
  38. Explainer: how do you get shingles and who should be vaccinated against it?
  39. Solicitor-General resigns – with a parting broadside at Brandis
  40. Solutions beyond supply to the housing affordability problem
  41. The curious power of hate propaganda in open societies
  42. Looking back at Italy 1992: the sudden spring of civil society
  43. Health Check: how to choose toothpaste
  44. The off-topic Conversation #110
  45. History of Russian populism provides important lessons for today
  46. Spectacular cost blowouts show need to keep governments honest on transport
  47. Does CCTV footage help or hinder the reduction of violence against women?
  48. Buggered if I know where I am: the stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
  49. The gas industry needs a carbon price to compete with coal
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