Research from the OECD shows Australians working long hours,or forced into part-time jobs,are less happy and more worried about their health.
Young people around the world have suffered big falls in home ownership. Australians - especially those on low incomes - are taking the biggest hit.
After decades of effort,the OECD finally managed to persuade nearly 140 countries to agree to a global minimum tax deal late last year. Now,however,it appears that the transformative deal is under threat.
The federal government has been warned:the importance of domestic democracy in underpinning gender equality is one issue that most people agree on. Lack of action could be dangerous.
Girls involvement in higher-level STEM subjects is broadly declining. But at all-girls schools,the trend is reversed.
The prime minister will tell the OECD there are “new frontiers” of opportunity in green technologies as he emphasises his climate change mission in Paris.
Labor is now in government,not in opposition. It cannot merely point out the nation’s problems,it has to find solutions too.
Economists and the OECD said any government assistance should be carefully targeted to avoid adding fuel to the inflation fire.
Where to for industrial relations after the pandemic?
A death duty is politically unpopular,but Australia is one of only a handful of developed countries without one. As inequality rises,the case for a death tax is growing.
Death duties,hiking the GST and more taxes on housing are on the wish lists of the nation’s top economists.