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  • IMF: Fix bargaining for better pay – Australia needs a pay rise

    September 3, 2018

    Research by the International Monetary Fund has revealed that the erosion of people’s rights in the workplace has led to less pay for workers. The International Monetary Fund research that shows that measures that have taken power away from working people in favour of big business have hurt take-home pay packets between 1970 and 2015. It is the first time that the IMF has acknowledged the [...]

  • FactCheck: have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages? No it hasn’t

    September 3, 2018

    Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University The evidence on the ground is very clear. The Trump tax cuts have led to stronger investment, stronger growth, lower unemployment rate and higher wages. – Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann, interview on RN Breakfast, August 13, 2018 After two years of debate and months of intense negotiation, the government’s proposal to cut the corporate tax rate [...]

  • Labor to restore penalty rates, health funding and protect Medicare

    September 1, 2018

    Bill shorten has outlined Labor’s vision for Australia at the Queensland ALP state conference this weekend. With the background of the disunity of Liberal Party at a federal level Bill Shorten has presented a united party ready to take power at the next election. Delivering one of keynote speeches at the state conference Labor and Shorten have stated that Sunday and public holiday rates will be [...]

  • Liberal Chaos: Primary Vote Crashes In Wentworth down 22 points, 50.9% less likely to vote Liberal

    August 31, 2018

    With the former, defenestrated Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull resigning from Parliament the Liberal Party primary vote crashes over 22 points to 39.6%, compared to 2016 election 62.3% primary vote according to polling commissioned by the Australia Institute. It is sill bad news for the new Prime Minister Scott Morrison. In Wentworth the Majority of voters (68.6%) think new Prime Minister Scott [...]

  • Syrian refugees in Lebanon continue to play the resettlement waiting game

    August 31, 2018

    By Marika Sosnowski Twitter: @MikiSosnowski “The camp is better now than it was,” Abu Iday told Global Voices. As the informal leader of a small gathering of Syrian refugees at Al-Rihaniya Shelter Centre in Akkar in northern Lebanon, Iday adds: “Although it’s still like a prison.” Resettlement is the only hope for a better life for Lebanon’s roughly one million Syrian [...]

  • ABS: Dwelling approvals fall in July

    August 31, 2018

    Recent figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the number of dwellings approved in Australia fell by 1.3 per cent in July 2018 in trend terms. “The fall was mainly driven by private dwellings excluding houses, which decreased by 1.8 per cent in July,” said Justin Lokhorst, Director of Construction Statistics at the ABS. “Private sector houses also fell, [...]

  • New Zealand: Slow rollout of PrEP could risk more HIV infections

    August 31, 2018

    New Zealand became one of the first countries in the world to publicly fund PrEP (a daily pre-exposure pill that prevents HIV) in February 2018. Researchers say PrEP can help reverse the HIV epidemic, but they’re worried the slow rollout will actually mean more people are exposed. They say the people most at risk of HIV don’t know about PrEP, sexual health clinics are struggling from [...]

  • Court opens door to domestic violence victim to sue police for negligence

    August 31, 2018

    In refusing to strike out Smith’s claim, the court has accepted that it is arguable police could owe a common law duty of care to specific victims of domestic violence to protect them from preventable harm. AAP/James Ross Mandy Shircore, James Cook University and Heather Douglas, The University of Queensland This week the Victorian Supreme Court refused an application by the State of Victoria [...]

  • Could Section 44 exclude Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce from parliament?

    August 30, 2018

    Luke Beck, Monash University Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce have each accepted job offers from new Prime Minister Scott Morrison to serve as his special envoys. The prime minister’s offers may have been a clever way to keep these two former leaders busy and put their abilities to use. But these jobs may have inadvertently rendered both Abbott and Joyce disqualified from parliament under section [...]

  • 37-year-old Sydney to face court over sexual assault

    August 30, 2018

    A 37-year-old Sydney man charged with sexual assault will face court today. It is alleged that he met his victim through an online dating app, Bumble. The police believe that the man pretended to be a doctor and then met up with his 26-year-old victim in the city’s east. The man is charged with raping the victim inside a Boyce Road unit at Maroubra before driving her to Mascot Railway [...]

  • A ‘woman problem’? No, the Liberals have a ‘man problem’, and they need to fix it

    August 30, 2018

    Chris Wallace, Australian National University Politics isn’t rational. Prejudice trumps performance. Politics is run by thugs. These are three reasonable conclusions from the snubbing of electorally popular Julie Bishop in last week’s Liberal leadership ballot, and Bishop-ally Julia Banks’ decision not to stand at the next election to protest bullying during the leadership campaign. Why did [...]

  • Guns do kill people – around 200,000 each year

    August 29, 2018

    Around the world there were an estimated 195,000 to 276,000 firearm deaths in 2016, the majority of them homicides, but firearm deaths in Australia have dropped since 1990, according to a team of international researchers including Australians. The study looked at deaths due to firearms in 195 countries and territories from 1990 to 2016, and found that 6 countries (Brazil, United States, Mexico, [...]

  • USA: Just how educated are Americans?

    August 29, 2018

    Dora Mekouar For the first time ever, 90 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have finished high school, and more than one-third of Americans over the age of 25 has a college degree or higher. That’s a large increase from 1940, when less than one-quarter of Americans had completed at least four years of high school, and just 4.6 percent had earned a bachelor’s degree or higher, according [...]

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