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Radical rethink of Closing the Gap required, despite some progress

  • Written by: Francis Markham, Research Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

The tracking of health, education and employment outcomes has come to be a key plank of Indigenous affairs policy in Australia in recent years.

The focus on measuring progress against a set of indicators is most prominent through the Closing the Gap report, which the prime minister has presented to parliament each year since 2009.

The annual...

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Australia isn't dominated by big businesses that gouge customers: Grattan report

  • Written by: Jim Minifie, Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute

When we see excessive spikes in fuel prices, rapid annual increases in health insurance premiums, and a confusing array of electricity options to choose from, it is easy to conclude that big companies are using their market power to gouge their customers.

But the latest report from the Grattan Institute finds claims about Australia being...

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It's not just women at the top who are paid less than men

  • Written by: Roger Wilkins, Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
imageWages are low among hospitality workers, who are disproportionately female.Shutterstock

Debate around gender pay gap often gravitates towards the higher-wage end of the labour market but it misses the employees at the other end of the pay spectrum – those who receive the legal minimum wage for their job. It’s the gender pay gap among...

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With the right tools, we can mine cities

  • Written by: André Stephan, Lecturer in Architectural Engineering, University of Melbourne
imageCities like Melbourne are a store for such huge amounts of resources that they could be used as urban mines. Donaldytong (own work)/Wikimedia

From 1900 to 2010, the amount of materials accumulated in buildings and infrastructure across the world increased 23-fold. We are depleting our resources at unprecedented rates. Instead of extracting...

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  1. Social media, the 'bikini bridge' and the viral contagion of body ideals
  2. It's time to talk about who can access your digital genomic data
  3. STEM education in primary schools will fall flat unless serious issues are addressed
  4. Viagra to be supplied without prescription in the UK: should Australia do the same?
  5. Coalition behind in two new polls as triumphant Joyce heads back to Canberra
  6. Barnaby Joyce storms home in New England byelection victory
  7. Proposed poultry standards leave Australia trailing behind other industrialised countries
  8. People with disability have a lot to offer employers
  9. Go now: NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro's blunt message to Turnbull
  10. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's backflip on the banking royal commission
  11. How the same-sex marriage vote will impact on human rights and democracy
  12. Transgender youth can now access hormone treatment without court approval
  13. Labor likely to win Queensland election majority, and regional voters behind same-sex marriage
  14. Video explainer: How cricket captains make good decisions
  15. Should Colin Barnett leave the WA parliament? Definitely, maybe, not at all
  16. Broad mandate for financial services royal commission takes the heat off banks
  17. Sydney the most expensive capital in Australia, Perth comes in fifth: new report
  18. Friday essay: the art of the pinch - popular music and appropriation
  19. New Royal Commission into water theft may be just the tip of iceberg for the Murray Darling Basin
  20. Penguins under threat from drowning in fishing nets
  21. Marrying across Australia's Catholic-Protestant divide
  22. The way your children watch YouTube is not that surprising - but it is a concern. Here are some tips
  23. Using university language tests for migration and professional registration is problematic
  24. Never had a Pap smear? Now there's a DIY option for you
  25. Inner-city neighbourhood shows the way in protecting heritage of centuries past
  26. Grattan on Friday: Nationals force reluctant Turnbull to dress in Shorten's banking clothes
  27. Politics Podcast: Matt Canavan on divorce in the LNP and discipline in the Coalition
  28. Dastyari saga shows the need for donations reform, and for politicians to take more care
  29. Why the big four asked for a parliamentary inquiry into banking
  30. Is the future for artists in crowdfunding?
  31. Bali's Agung – using 'volcano forensics' to map the past, and predict the future
  32. Do different drinks make you different drunk?
  33. It's 30 years since scientists first warned of climate threats to Australia
  34. Six things New Zealand's new government needs to do to make climate refugee visas work
  35. Dastyari demoted again – but government demands he leave parliament
  36. Banking royal commission will expose the real cost of bad behaviour
  37. Supporting part-time and online learners is key to reducing university dropout rates
  38. Tourists are stuck at the airport, but erupting Mt Agung has a deeper significance for the Balinese
  39. Queensland Liberals and Nationals have long had an uneasy cohabitation, and now should consider divorce
  40. How school has been used to control sovereignty and self-determination for Indigenous peoples
  41. Permission to laugh? Humour without risk of danger and offence would be an emaciated thing
  42. Blind in the mind: why some people can't see pictures in their imagination
  43. Sustainable re-use and recycling work for heritage buildings and places too
  44. Governments haven't always shirked responsibility for our low wages
  45. World-first continental acoustic observatory will listen to the sounds of Australia
  46. Labor's dark vision would bring $164 billion tax hit over decade: Morrison
  47. Government questions whether Dastyari fit to be a senator, in new row over Chinese donor
  48. How we found 112 'recovery reefs' dotted through the Great Barrier Reef
  49. Henry Reynolds: Triple J did the right thing, we need a new Australia Day
  50. Marriage bill clears Senate – now for the lower house

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