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Negative gearing reforms could save A$1.7 billion without hurting poorer investors

  • Written by: Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University

Reforming negative gearing could save the federal government A$1.7 billion without hurting “mum and dad investors”, according to our new modelling, by focusing tax deductions on investors with smaller property portfolios and removing them for richer investors.

Combined with changes to capital gains tax, reforming negative gearing could...

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Making climate models open source makes them even more useful

  • Written by: Martin Jucker, Maritime Continent Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Making climate models open source makes them even more usefulMiMA: an open source way to model the climate.Martin Jucker, Author provided

Designing climate experiments is all but impossible in the real world. We can’t, for instance, study the effects of clouds by taking away all the clouds for a set period of time and seeing what happens.

Instead, we have to design our experiments virtually, by...

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How teens use fake Instagram accounts to relieve the pressure of perfection

  • Written by: Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University
How teens use fake Instagram accounts to relieve the pressure of perfectionThe pressure to always look good is real. from www.shutterstock.com

Fake Instagram accounts, often referred to as “finstas” or “spam accounts”, have become the norm for many teens – but their reasoning for creating these is not as sinister as you think.

I’ve spoken with 50 Australian families – including...

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What's going wrong with Australia's franchises?

  • Written by: Jenni Henderson, Section Editor: Business + Economy
What's going wrong with Australia's franchises?Donut King is a franchise of the Retail Food Group, a business under fire for allegations of underpaying staff.Alpha/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Two well-known franchise businesses in Australia are in trouble this week. At the time of year when businesses usually report their half-year financial results, petrol retailer Caltex announced it was stepping away...

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