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Business Briefing: Simon McKeon on removing the retirement label

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Assistant Editor, Business and Economy, The Conversation
imageThose who want to work longer should be given the option to, McKeon argues.www.shutterstock.com

Former Treasurer Joe Hockey did not get a warm reception when he confirmed the retirement age would increase to 70 by 2035. But Monash University Chancellor Simon McKeon thinks its not such a bad thing.

He argues if Australians are productive well into...

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Not on struggle street yet, but mortgage stress risk is rising

  • Written by: Danika Wright, Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney

Newly released analysis from Roy Morgan reaffirms that it is the lowest-income households that face the highest mortgage stress. And, contrary to what many might expect, the worst stress is not in Sydney and Melbourne, where property prices have hit record highs.

The Roy Morgan report estimates that 18.4% of Australian households are experiencing...

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Shorten to Turnbull: Here are my budget repair ideas

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

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten on Wednesday will propose a budget repair package worth $8 billion over the forward estimates, as government and Labor jostle over the nation’s finances ahead of next week’s start of the new parliament.

The eight measures, recycling policies the ALP took to the election, include only one - a rise in...

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A pub brawl over research funding doesn't benefit any of us

  • Written by: Rod Lamberts, Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
imageIs this really how we want to decide where research funding should be allocated?Shutterstock

Here we go again. On Monday, we were interested to see The Daily Telegraph’s Natasha Bita and 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley making a strong fist of implying they would make good directors of Australia’s research funding system, supported supported...

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  10. Winning Edge fails to deliver, so what now for Australia's Olympic hopes?
  11. Do you know a Bunji from a Boorie? Meet our dictionary's new Indigenous words
  12. Malaysia’s Bersih movement shows social media can mobilise the masses
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  16. Quantimentals, signal surfing and fast walkers: mapping the rise of weird data
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  18. If you're going to ridicule research, do your homework
  19. Australia continues to be shamefully silent on Indonesia's human rights abuses
  20. The price of victory: comparing the cost of Olympic gold to an elite arts prize
  21. New Zealand is letting economics rule its environmental policies
  22. New modelling on bushfires shows how they really burn through an area
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  38. Colin Barnett says same-sex marriage should be settled by parliament
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