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Israel’s plan appears to use humanitarian aid as bait — it supplies only one-tenth of the population and seems aimed at luring Gazans to collection points, according to ANU expert Dr Annabell Dulhunty.
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs calls it a “deliberate attempt to weaponize the aid”.
“A key contributor to real wage growth is an increase in productivity, but Australia’s productivity growth from 2010 to 2020 was the slowest in 60 years.
Our current tax system acts as a brake on productivity, as poorly designed taxes can blunt work-related incentives. Moving from stamp duty to an annualised property tax might raise productivity levels.”
Australia recently implemented policies to curb e-cigarette use, particularly among non-smokers and adolescents.
The comprehensive 2024 reforms restricted the sale of e-cigarettes to pharmacies, with restrictions on dosage, flavours, packaging and advertising. Yazidjoglou says there is early evidence suggesting that use may be declining.
Billions of dollars have been spent on recovering water for the environment in Australia’s most important and extensive catchment, the Murray-Darling Basin.
According to a group of experts led by Dr Matthew Coloff from ANU, three quarters of the indicators used in a major review of that spending were chosen to justify investment past investment, not to reflect the efficacy of those decisions.
“Unofficial efforts have proven indispensable in rebuilding trust and cultivating mutual understanding between the two nations. But cultural diplomacy between China and Australia isn’t new.
[This grassroots diplomacy] pre-dates the official diplomatic relationship. It’s evident in early trading between First Nations groups and engagement with Chinese diasporas during the gold rush.”
“The response from Southeast Asia has so far been the benchmark.
Leaders of ASEAN’s most important economies — Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Philippines President Bongbong Marcos and Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong — have coordinated closely around a non-retaliatory response”.
Are tensions between the Liberal and National parties a mistake, or an opportunity? What questions linger for Australia’s young people after the federal election? And what will it take for the Liberals to connect with the electorate?
On this episode of Democracy Sausage, recorded in a political science classroom, Dr Jill Sheppard and Dr Marija Taflaga take Professor Mark Kenny back to school
In this Devpolicy Talks, Leith Greenslade, coordinator of the Every Breath Counts Coalition, explains why childhood pneumonia is still killing children despite being both preventable and treatable.
She outlines the systemic failures that have kept pneumonia in the shadows, and charts a path forward to meeting the 2030 deadline for achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
According to the 2022 China Mental Health Survey found more than seven per cent of the population of the country were suffering from depression, half of them are schoolchildren.
On this episode of Little Red Podcast, Louisa and Graeme explore the problems drawing the children of China to the couch with experts Yiying Xiong, Barclay Bram, and Hsuan-Ying Huang.
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