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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.”
The cost of health care is a major burden for people living with chronic conditions and their carers, according to a new study from The Australian National University.
“Our research clearly indicates that Australia is yet to realise its goal to ensure equitable access to health care for everyone, and to protect everyone from health-related debt and impoverishment.”
While climate change is already having a very big impact on Australia, the multi-billion-dollar question for the nation’s prime food bowl, the Murray Darling Basin, is how much is climate change responsible for declining stream flows and how much is it due to irrigation?
The ANU team discuss how they took on this challenge, with implications for Australia's sustainable diversion limits.
“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”.
Amid the unpredictability of the current economic environment, how can Australia benefit? What is the government planning to do to ensure productivity roundtables are actually productive? And how can we meet the challenge of decarbonisation?
On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Treasurer Jim Chalmers joins Professor Mark Kenny to talk about how to best position Australia’s economy for the future.
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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