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Full response, Jane McAdam

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Editor, The Conversation

In relation to this FactCheck article on migration, Professor Jane McAdam said:

My comment was intended to clarify the breakdown of the figures quoted by Shen, specifically that the 200,000 figure mentioned by Jim and Shen referred (roughly) to the number of new permanent migrants each year, while the remaining 600,000 in Shen’s figure were...

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FactCheck Q A: what are the real numbers on refugees and other migrants coming to Australia?

  • Written by: Khanh Hoang, Associate Lecturer, ANU College of Law – Migration Law Program, Australian National University
imageQ&A panellists discussed migration and refugees, but struggled to agree on what the numbers show. Q&A

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email.


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Slow start to new standards requirements for financial advisers

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The large banks and AMP will be required to fund the establishment of a new independent body to oversee the professional standing of the much-criticised financial services industry, the government has announced.

The chairman and directors of the body, a Commonwealth company, will be appointed by the government, which will develop an ongoing...

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How the housing boom is remaking Australia’s social class structure

  • Written by: Ilan Wiesel, Lecturer in Urban Geography, University of Melbourne
imageThe renting class faces the unrelenting burden of ever-rising rents.AAP/Mick Tsikas

The relentless housing boom in Australia’s cities, especially Melbourne and Sydney, is often framed as an intergenerational conflict in which younger generations are being priced out of the market by baby boomers. However, sociological theories of social class...

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