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The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is right to recognise that Britain needs to move away from an economic model that seeks growth by making workers poorer

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2024

More secure jobs and higher unemployment benefits would help lift Australia’s birth rate

Across developed countries, including Australia, fewer babies are being born.

The Conversation · Aug 5, 2024

Alarm bells over Australian universities’ financial dependence on international students

Critics across the sector say institutions have become trapped in an unstable business model as they try to make up for loss of government funding

The Guardian - AU · Aug 1, 2024

Small modular reactors are a 'chimera' for now

An academy has casts its eye over the commercial viability of small modular reactors in development and finds any full-scale application is decades away.

AAP · Jul 23, 2024

Coalition’s nuclear plan delaying decisions on renewables, investors say

Talk of building reactors in Australia is breeding uncertainty and delaying decisions to back major solar and wind projects

The Guardian - AU · Jul 23, 2024

Australian workers’ living standards have been destroyed – and there is little good news ahead

While interest rates may have peaked, the labour market is fragile and the economy is set to slow even further

The Guardian - AU · Jul 17, 2024

Australia bucks OECD trend with increasing trust in public sector

Survey shows what people think of public servants and governments.

The Canberra Times · Jul 16, 2024

Why real wages in Australia have fallen while they’ve risen in most other OECD countries

Australia is now in the same league as Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary when it comes to cutting real pay, according to a new OECD report.

The Conversation · Jul 10, 2024

Australian families spend far more on private schooling than many other countries. Here’s why that’s a problem

If you feel like you’re paying a lot for your child’s private school education, that’s because you probably are.

The Conversation · Jul 9, 2024

NHS: six key challenges facing the Labour government

In 1997, Tony Blair’s election “pledge card” included a promise to cut NHS waiting lists, then totalling 1.16 million. Keir Starmer’s “first steps for change” include a similar pledge to cut waiting times, but his task is on a different scale, with 7.5 million people currently awaiting treatment. How did…

The Conversation · Jul 8, 2024