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Vital signs: economists are borrowing wisdom from King Solomon

05 Nov 2021

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

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UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26): experts available to comment

25 Oct 2021

UNSW has a wide range of experts available for comment on COP26.

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Vital Signs: slower Chinese economic growth inevitable without internal reform

22 Oct 2021

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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Reduce screen fatigue with these helpful tips

20 Oct 2021

Back-to-back video calls, emails, texts and report writing – you’ve probably clocked up more screen time than you realise. 

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Vital Signs: JobKeeper delivered what was needed to save the patient

17 Oct 2021

When COVID-19 struck, Australia’s Treasury didn’t have the luxury of years of work, refinement and debate to develop JobKeeper. It had to perform battlefield surgery.

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Vital Signs. Laugh at the US if you will, but Australia narrowly escaped a debt ceiling

08 Oct 2021

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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Vital signs: Evergrande may survive, but for its executives expect a fate worse than debt

01 Oct 2021

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

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Vital Signs: a simple way to cut carbon emissions – don't let polluters hide

24 Sep 2021

Disclosure requirements work, forcing companies to own up to their customers and investors.

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Australia's COVID plan was designed before we knew how Delta would hit us. We need more flexibility

21 Sep 2021

The problem with the plan to relax restrictions at 70 per cent and 80 per cent vaccination rates is it’s based on modelling that’s now obsolete.

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Destroying vegetation along fences and roads could worsen our extinction crisis

17 Sep 2021

Under a new code, rural landholders in NSW will be allowed to clear up to 25 metres of land outside their property boundary. This will be devastating for the wildlife that live or migrate there.

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