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How raising tax for high-income earners would reduce inequality, improve social welfare in New Zealand

  • Written by Nicolas Herault, Academic, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
How raising tax for high-income earners would reduce inequality, improve social welfare in New ZealandTax reforms generally imply a trade-off between average income and inequality. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

If we asked people in New Zealand what they think the best income tax reform would be, we would expect a range of responses. People will no doubt have different views about which of the four income tax rates and corresponding income...

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Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel

  • Written by Alice Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebelLeila Waddell performing during the Rites of Eleusis.

Leila Waddell (1880-1932) was a country girl from Bathurst, NSW, who entered the world stage as an acclaimed violinist - and left it having influenced magical practice into the 21st century.

Her early life focused on music. She studied violin and joined the Sydney music scene, teaching genteel...

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native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads

  • Written by Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne
native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toadsWater rats in Western Australia are safely hunting cane toads.Author provided

Australia’s water rats, or Rakali, are one of Australia’s beautiful but lesser-known native rodents. And these intelligent, semi-aquatic rats have revealed another talent: they are one of the only Australian mammals to safely eat toxic cane toads.

Our research,...

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where do phobias come from?

  • Written by Lara Farrell, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Griffith University
where do phobias come from?Phobias are an intense fear of very specific things like objects, places, situations or animals.Shutterstockwhere do phobias come from?

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au.

Where do phobias come from? – Olivia, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney.

Phobias are an intense fear of very specific things like...

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  2. the idea behind Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving
  3. Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal
  4. Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn't smart enough yet
  5. City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on
  6. In a chatty world, losing your speech can be alienating. But there's help
  7. How Australians talk about tucker is a story that'll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant
  8. 'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time
  9. 10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools
  10. From crime fighters to crime writers
  11. young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life
  12. To go to China you have to be invited: Morrison
  13. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the family law inquiry
  14. why don't we have electric aircraft?
  15. how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis
  16. A shot of hope in the face of climate despair
  17. It's safest to avoid e-cigarettes altogether – unless vaping is helping you quit smoking
  18. What is the charge of concealment of birth and why is it still happening in Australia?
  19. We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians
  20. on the ending of a friendship
  21. Ignoring young people's climate change fears is a recipe for anxiety
  22. Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing
  23. Why do men have nipples?
  24. putting government money where policy needs to go
  25. We don't need another inquiry into family law – we need action
  26. NBN's new price plans are too little, too late
  27. The big budget question is why the surplus wasn't big
  28. It's Newstart pay rise day. You're in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts
  29. Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
  30. Morrison government solid on industrial relations reform but bootlicks One Nation on family law
  31. How rising temperatures affect our health
  32. How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system
  33. Stop calling young people apathetic. For many, volunteering and activism go hand-in-hand
  34. investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé
  35. inquiry underway to determine any wrongdoing by New Zealand troops in Afghanistan
  36. the evolution of Goth subculture in sub-tropical Brisbane
  37. There's a good reason we're moderating climate change deniers: uninformed comments undermine expertise
  38. it's almost all about housing
  39. For routine breast screening, you may not need a 3D mammogram
  40. two reef scientists share their climate grief
  41. Iran wants to create chaos in the Middle East. But conflict with the US remains a limited, if worrying, possibility
  42. NZ was first to grant women the vote in 1893, but then took 26 years to let them stand for parliament
  43. 3 keys to getting the policy mix right
  44. Cable ties probably won't stop magpie attacks – here are a few things to try instead
  45. Ever wondered what our curriculum teaches kids about climate change? The answer is 'not much'
  46. Why would anyone shiver their timbers? Here’s how pirate words arrr preserving old language
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