Still beating around the bush
Since the beginning of the mining boom Australia’s rural sector has lost $61.5 billion in export income. This includes $18.9 billion in 2011-12 alone.
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Fracking the future
The CSG jobs myth
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What is the gender pay gap costing women?
On average women earn $1.4 million less than men
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Is forestry the backbone of the Tasmanian economy?
Why does it get major government assistance?
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Who wins and who loses from the mining tax repeal?
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Gas crisis for NSW?
Where is the new gas going?
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Government cuts foreign aid
Can Australia afford to be more generous?
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Nothing free about Tony Abbott's free trade agreements
Like buying a house, it’s easy to get a free trade agreement if you don't care what you get or how much you pay. Since coming to office, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has closed a number of free trade agreements in record time, and it shows.
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SUBMISSION: Financial services review
The Australia Institute has published a number of papers on the finance industry.
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The paradoxes of economic growth
Productivity is easy to define, hard to measure and impossible to predict.
But there is a big difference between how much we talk about something and how much we understand about it.
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MR: Warkworth decision another blow for dodgy economic modelling
Today’s Supreme Court judgement reinforces the view that the economics of Rio Tinto’s Warkworth project have never stacked up for NSW or the people of Bulga, according to The Australia Institute.
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SUBMISSION: Senate inquiry into affordable housing
The Australia Institute's submission addresses the effect of policies designed to encourage home ownership and residential property investment. More broadly this submission focuses on the theme of housing equality and examines the inequality that exists between generations and income groups.
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SUBMISSION: Senate inquiry into out-of-pocket costs in healthcare
The Australia Institute's submission addressed the following points of the Inquiry’s terms of reference: the trend in out-of-pocket expenses; the impact of co-payments; key areas of expenditure including primary care visits, pharmaceuticals and diagnostic testi
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Grow your own
Australia’s high rate of urbanisation means that most people experience a significant disconnect between their food production and consumption.
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ABC News Breakfast talks with David Baker on his research paper ‘Trouble with childcare’.
David Baker talks with ABC News Breakfast about the significant issue of affordability for families needing childcare and how improvements could be made to government assistance funding to childcare that would see families better able to afford childcare services.