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health August 24, 2024
Aged-care contracts blow out to $685 million
EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of IT contracts to support the new aged-care system show fees have ballooned to $685 million for just three multinational consultancies.
economy August 17, 2024
In conversation with US economist Joseph Stiglitz
American economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz’s new book, The Road to Freedom, reclaims the language of freedom from right-wing ideologues.
business August 10, 2024
Inside Labor’s plan to restrict non-compete clauses
Labor plans to limit the use of non-compete clauses, on the basis that such constraints on the movement of workers to rival employers suppress both wages and innovation.
business August 3, 2024
The lucrative business of trusts
Managing trusts set up for philanthropy has become a lucrative business in a concentrated market – one that is increasingly incentivised to put shareholders before charities.
technology July 20, 2024
Jobseeker glitch cuts more than 1300 incomes
EXCLUSIVE: A system glitch has wrongly punished more than 1300 jobseekers by cutting off their income in an IT disaster that is a potent reminder of the dark days of robodebt.
economy July 13, 2024
The state of Australia’s economic mobility
ANALYSIS: Australia is one of the most economically mobile countries in the world, but for younger Millennials and Gen Z that mobility is slowing down.
economy June 22, 2024
Exclusive: CSIRO dismantles clinical research units
Job cuts at the CSIRO will see the agency close two clinical research units and shelve a plan to establish a food research centre in Victoria.
environment June 15, 2024
‘We’re getting conned’: Japan onselling Australian LNG
While Japan criticised Australia for diverting gas exports to help cut domestic prices, the Asian power was building its own market with onsold Australian LNG.
law & crime June 15, 2024
Exclusive: Welfare groups fear collapse after budget
The budget’s failure to deliver the funds recommended in a review two months earlier leaves community legal services with a massive shortfall and pleading with the attorney-general for assistance.
economy May 11, 2024
How lobbyists shape the budget
As a review of the Lobbying Code of Conduct draws criticism from transparency advocates, lobbyists are descending on Canberra to take expensive seats at fundraisers around the most important night of the political year.
immigration May 11, 2024
Immigration and the housing crisis
Immigration is a driver of GDP and a solution to Australia’s declining birth rate, but as housing pressures mount, polls showing strong support for reduced intake could force the government into a debate on population growth.
