SPC News April 2021.
We need to tell it as it really is! Editorial Peter Whiting During the waning years of the Trump presidency, it became fashionable to...
Wake up, Mr Morrison: Australia’s slack climate effort leaves our children 10 times more work to do than we have.
Lesley Hughes Macquarie UniversityJohn Hewson Crawford School of Public Policy Australian National UniversityMalte Meinshausen The University of MelbourneWill Steffen Australian National University 30 March...
Victoria’s truth-telling commission: to move forward, we need to answer for the legacies of colonisation.
Harry Hobbs University of Technology Sydney. 30 March 2021 Last year, the Victorian government announced it would establish a Truth and Justice process to...
Australia has a long history of coercing people into work. There are better options than ‘dobbing in’.
Frances Flanagan University of Sydney. 30 March 2021 After heated criticism from several quarters, the federal government last month announced a meagre rise in...
Truth & treaties: the ongoing legacy of the Uluru statement.
Henry Reynolds. 30 March 2021. The most shameful day in Malcolm Turnbull’s tenure as Australia’s Prime Minister was 27 October 2017. It was the...
Rising house prices put at risk the economic stability of the nation.
Hal Pawson and Bill Randolph. 30 March 2021. Housing policies are contributing to stagnating economic growth and putting at risk the economic stability of...
SPC News March 2021.
Social agencies stunned by refusal to lift unemployment benefits. Editorial Bruce Duncan. Business leaders, economists, and social agencies were stunned and appalled by the recent...
The reset to lift us out of the Covid recession has to be bold: returning to where we were is nowhere near good enough.
Ross Garnaut The University of Melbourne. 5 March 2021 Talk about returning the economy to normal after the crisis is misguided. Before the crisis,...
States housed 40,000 people for the Covid emergency. Now rough sleeper numbers are back on the up.
Hal Pawson UNSW. Chris Martin UNSW. Australian governments acted to protect homeless people from COVID-19 in 2020 on an even larger scale than previously...
Low wage, low growth: Porter’s industrial relations bill is only good in parts.
Andrew Stewart. Adriana Orifici Monash University. Joellen Riley Munton University of Technology Sydney. Shae McCrystal University of Sydney. Tess Hardy The University of Melbourne....
How good is Morrison’s Australia? Going backwards and being left behind.
Noel Turnbull. 5 March 2021 After seven years of a Coalition government, household debt is the second highest of 43 countries; we ranked third...