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The Grattan Institute’s Danielle Wood and Nathan Blane argue that transitioning the economy from emergency settings to business as usual will not be easy, but there’s no imperative to do it suddenly.
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As Australia tackles the COVID-19 pandemic with wartime-like measures, Liam Davies argues the national cabinet should be inspired by the past and introduce rent control.
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Earth is now firmly in the grips of its sixth “mass extinction event”, and it’s mainly our fault. But the modern era is definitely not the first time humans have been implicated in the extinction of a wide range of species.
What happens if interest rates hit zero? The Reserve Bank’s new computer model has some ideas, writes Isaac Gross.
The federal-state deal to crank up South Australia’s desalination plant to provide drought relief won’t do much more than waste taxpayers’ money, argues UniSA’s Lin Crase.
Bureau of Meteorology researchers painstakingly analysed more than 40 years of data to work out exactly what is causing Australia’s spring bushfire phenomenon. Chris Lucas and Sarah Harris explain their findings.
Households are buying no more than they were a year ago, and the wage share of national income is the lowest since 1964, writes Peter Martin.
