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True wages growth, and true price growth, is probably less than the official figures suggest – meaning there’s no need for alarm about inflation in Australia.

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With massive job losses and uncertainty a recent memory for Australia’s casual workforce, will they be willing to return to a working situation that treated them so poorly in the pandemic?

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New Fellows elected in recognition of their excellence in the social sciences.

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With inflation on the rise, people are looking for safe havens for their money – and markets that were considered riskier in the past are now looking increasingly attractive.

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Good decisions can be systematised. We are tantalisingly close, but there’s work to do yet.

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The 2022 Times Higher Education rankings also saw psychology and business and economics subjects move up the list.

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Without academic freedom and rule of law it’s hard to see how China’s economy can continue to grow so fast.

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The US debt ceiling is a form of self-delusion: a limit imposed on a borrower by the borrower itself. Australia had one until the Coalition and the Greens abolished it.

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Latest underemployment and labour force figures underscore gender inequalities and suggest disadvantages are passing to future generations.

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Chinese authorities have an intriguing, if troubling, option in handling the Evergrande crisis.

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