Article
Vocational education policy is failing, and it's not hard to see why
A failed experiment in market-led education needs to be buried once and for all, writes John Quiggin.
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Slashing penalty rates: a misguided response to problems of the past
There needs to be more of a focus on the adverse effects of lower wages for the economy as a whole, argues John Quiggin.
Article
The coming boom in inherited wealth
John Quiggin looks at if we will have to learn to live in a patrimonial society?
Report
Unfinished business
This report by senior researchers from the University of Queensland raises issues that are crucial to the important and timely debate about native title and the rights of Indigenous peoples in Australia and around the world.
Article
Despite the politics, good news on climate
Anyone following the news on climate policy might well incline to despair. Not only is the Turnbull government continuing to promote the idea that coal is the energy source of the future as well as the past, but many of its backbenchers also think that the best alternative is nuclear power. Of course, in the...