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China is taking a risk by getting tough on Hong Kong. Now, the US must decide how to respond

  • Written by: Hui Feng, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
China is taking a risk by getting tough on Hong Kong. Now, the US must decide how to respondSipa USA Ivan Abreu / SOPA Images/Sipa US

Beijing’s recent announcement it would authorise the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress – China’s rubber-stamp parliament – to draft a national security law for Hong Kong caught most off guard.

The move sparked renewed protests over the weekend, caused a lands...

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Performers and sole traders find it hard to get JobKeeper in part because they get behind on their paperwork

  • Written by: Ann Kayis-Kumar, Senior Lecturer and Tax Clinic Director, School of Taxation & Business Law, UNSW
Performers and sole traders find it hard to get JobKeeper in part because they get behind on their paperworkShutterstock

Performers and sole traders find it hard to get JobKeeper in part because they are behind on their paperwork

Are sole traders falling through the JobKeeper cracks?

JobKeeper is working out awfully for performers.

Although the arts industry has been hit harder than any other apart from tourism according to the Australian Bureau of...

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hunters kill migrating birds on their 10,000km journey to Australia

  • Written by: Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
hunters kill migrating birds on their 10,000km journey to AustraliaA bar-tailed godwit. Lucas DeCicco, US Fish and Wildlife Service.

It is low tide at the end of the wet season in Broome, Western Australia. Shorebirds feeding voraciously on worms and clams suddenly get restless.

Chattering loudly they take flight, circling up over Roebuck Bay then heading off for their northern breeding grounds more than 10,000 km...

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High-speed rail on Australia's east coast would increase emissions for up to 36 years

  • Written by: Greg Moran, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
High-speed rail on Australia's east coast would increase emissions for up to 36 yearsPiqsels

Bullet trains are back on the political agenda. As the major parties look for ways to stimulate the economy after the COVID-19 crisis, Labor is again spruiking its vision of linking Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane with high-speed trains similar to the Eurostar, France’s TGV or Japan’s Shinkansen.

In 2013 when Labor was...

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  3. The problem with arts funding in Australia goes right back to its inception
  4. Coronavirus has changed our sense of place, so together we must re-imagine our cities
  5. JobKeeper $60 billion snafu like your house builder revising quote: Morrison
  6. Beware the 'cauldron of paranoia' as China and the US slide towards a new kind of cold war
  7. Treasury revises JobKeeper's cost down by massive $60 billion, sparking calls to widen eligibility
  8. Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up
  9. Target's decline is part of a deeper trend
  10. The WHO's coronavirus inquiry will be more diplomatic than decisive. But Australia should step up in the meantime
  11. Is it time to reopen our borders? For states still recording new cases, it's too soon
  12. How universities came to rely on international students
  13. 7 questions answered on how to socialise safely as coronavirus restrictions ease
  14. Michelle Grattan on the China-Australia trade war and state border policy
  15. New shows tell our isolation stories on screen – making the most of what's at hand
  16. What defines casual work? Federal Court ruling highlights a fundamental flaw in Australian labour law
  17. 3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan
  18. From spit to scrums. How can sports players minimise their coronavirus risk?
  19. Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia
  20. 'wolf warriors' ready to fight back
  21. Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes
  22. Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules
  23. Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge
  24. Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency
  25. the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
  26. Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
  27. Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts
  28. Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation
  29. Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?
  30. Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can't just snap back to 'normal' funding arrangements
  31. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  32. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  33. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  34. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  35. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  36. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  37. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  38. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  39. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  40. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  41. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  42. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
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  44. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  45. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  46. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
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  48. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
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  50. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory

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