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Peter Siminski offers six reasons Australians don’t trust economists, and how they could do better

Nation building projects always take multiple terms, and the risk of Labour losing puts at risk some of the largest and most important we’ve seen in generations.

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In response to calls to raise the JobSeeker payment, the Albanese government is expected to announce an increase in the budget only for recipients aged 55 and over.Doing so will fuel the familiar generational debate about comparative levels of hardsh

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Australia’s education system is not doing that well in correcting for the disadvantage students face in the classroom.

Relative wages aren’t the driving force behind who does the bulk of the household chores and childcare – gender and social norms are the likely explanation, new research from the University of Technology Sydney reveals.The traditional economic view a