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What is the Register of British Slave Traders and whom does it identify?

Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14

As the economy slows and productivity flatlines, is Australia having another banana republic moment?

In 1986 Paul Keating warned the nation was headed towards economic disaster without reform. Now, Jim Chalmers faces a similar dilemma

The Guardian - AU · Aug 16, 2025

Texas hospitals, clinics spared the worst of GOP Medicaid cuts. An expected rise in the uninsured rate could change that.

Texas clinics, in particular, are worried about their ability to meet patient needs once people begin losing insurance under changes from Republicans’ recent megabill.

The Texas Tribune · Jul 24, 2025

Inflation may be about to hit a three-year low. Does that mean the cost-of-living crisis is over?

Not really, because CPI is just one factor. A better measure of how we’re faring is household disposable income

The Guardian - AU · Oct 26, 2024

Can Australia’s borrowers dodge another interest rate hike? We’ll know more soon

May’s inflation figures sent alarm bells ringing that the RBA would hike rates. But technically we are still on track for the central bank’s target

The Guardian - AU · Jun 27, 2024

‘Ride’ Paints Cowboy Life in Shades of Gray

A new movie set in Stephenville complicates, without vilifying, one of our state’s central mythic figures.

Texas Observer · Jun 11, 2024

Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker; Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – skin in the game

Illness, racism and mortality are indelibly fused – on film, with X-rays and his own body – in a superb survey of work by the late British artist Donald Rodney. Elsewhere, carnival is outshone by church

The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024

Inflation in Australia is still stubbornly high. Will the RBA raise interest rates again?

With hopes for a rate cut gone, there is speculation of another rise before the end of 2024. What factors will sway the Reserve Bank’s decision?

The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2024

With her comments on slavery, Kemi Badenoch shows a poor grasp of history

Letters: Readers respond to the business secretary’s claim that the UK’s wealth is not connected to its colonial history or the slave trade

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2024

Jim Chalmers appoints outsider and former Bank of England executive director as deputy RBA governor

Rare appointment of outsider Andrew Hauser to senior position comes after review found bank should encourage ‘diverse viewpoints’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 27, 2023