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Long-term Youth Unemployment Triples in Six Years: Study

Staff Reporter, Monday, 14th April 2014 -  New research nearly 18 per cent of unemployed 15 to 24-year-olds fall into the “long-term unemployed” category, according to this piece first published on The Conversation…

Repeal Day an Exercise in Deregulation Smoke and Mirrors

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 27th March 2014 -  There are some big deceptions behind Tony Abbott and Josh Frydenberg’s Repeal Day initiative, writes John Wanna, Chair of Public Administration at Australian National University,…

Opinion

The Australia Council Must Hold Firm on ‘Arm’s Length’ Funding

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th March 2014 -  The ongoing furore surrounding the corporate funding of the 2014 Sydney Biennale involves hard issues – “hard” as in “real” and “difficult…

Opinion

Changing Workplace Bullying Laws Will Not Open Floodgates

Staff Reporter, Monday, 10th February 2014 -  Carlo Caponecchia, Senior Lecturer at the School of Aviation, University of New South Wales, explores the important issues that have been overlooked in the introduction of new workplace…

Opinion

Why Abbott Can’t Delete ‘Society’ From His Economic Growth Script

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 5th February 2014 -  Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s free market, small government leaning overlooks the real issue of social inequality, writes Veronica Sheen,Research Associate, Political…

Opinion

Age Pension Reform Needed for a Fair, Sustainable Welfare System

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 30th January 2014 -  If budget sustainability is the key driver of Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews’ review of the welfare system, then he should be looking elsewhere, writes Cassie McGannon,…

Opinion

Bushfire Planning Leaves Behind People with Disabilities

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 22nd January 2014 -  Too few Australian bushfire preparedness plans consider people with disabilities, says Sarina Kilham – a Research Fellow at the Centre for Disability Research and Policy…

Analysis

Unemployment … Coming to a Suburb Near You

Staff Reporter, Monday, 13th January 2014 -  Some local communities and suburbs will be harder hit than others by rising levels of unemployment, and this includes areas not usually associated with disadvantage, writes Charles…

Analysis

Disability Funding is No Charity – It’s an Investment

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 9th January 2014 -  Economics Lecturer at Deakin University, Elizabeth Manning, explores why making predictions on the NDIS based on its first few months of implementation makes no sense at all in an…

Analysis

Watching Over the Helpers: Why Regulation of Charities Matters

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 7th January 2014 -  How much evidence has there been that the ACNC has been a tyrannical bureaucrat and will its abolition weaken charity regulation, asks University of Melbourne Professor of Law Ann…

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