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Several solutions can help to mitigate the demand and need for wages to be linked to inflation, writes UNSW Business School's Mark Humphrey-Jenner.

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New research from the CRC for Low Carbon Living shows energy deprivation is becoming more widespread in Australia, with many households compromising health and wellbeing to pay energy bills.

Low income earners and other disadvantaged people will be hit hardest by climate change, with any carbon tax taking a disproportionately large amount out of their budgets, according to research to be presented this week at the Australian Social Policy Conference at UNSW.