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Week two of the federal election campaign has drawn to a close, and intergenerational inequity is weighing on many voters’ minds.
Housing affordability, student debt, insecure work and climate change all put young Australians at risk of being worse off than their parents, writes Dan Woodman. Yet, Woodman notes, the major parties don’t seem to be in a hurry to embrace measures such as Anglicare’s call for an inheritance tax to slow the concentration of wealth.
“Nor any other significant reforms to the tax treatment of housing to try and improve affordability,” he writes.
Politicians ignore these issues at their peril; this will be the first election where Gen Z and Millennials will outnumber Baby Boomers (and Gen X) at the ballot box.
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Alison Carabine
Public Policy Editor
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Dan Woodman, The University of Melbourne
Gen Z and Millennials will outnumber Boomer voters at the election. Does that mean we will see policies to close the growing wealth divide between the generations?
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Best reads this week
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Frank Rindert Algra-Maschio, Monash University; David Campbell, RMIT University; Lisa Waller, RMIT University
Another election brings another round of promises from politicians trying to win votes, but how many did the last government keep? It’s likely more than you think.
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Peter Draper, University of Adelaide; Vutha Hing, University of Adelaide
To calculate its ‘reciprocal tariffs’, the Trump administration has opted for a crude formula with no basis in trade theory. We are all going to pay the price.
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Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Clelia Mulà, The University of Western Australia; Giovanni Strona, University of Helsinki
New research examined coral restoration projects worldwide to calculate what it would actually cost to bring back what’s already been lost.
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Charles Kemp, The University of Melbourne; Ekaterina Vylomova, The University of Melbourne; Temuulen Khishigsuren, The University of Melbourne; Terry Regier, University of California, Berkeley
Can you guess which languages score the highest for terms relating to ‘love’, ‘death’, ‘canoe’ or ‘sheep’? We made a tool to help you explore our extensive dataset.
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Stephanie Perkiss, University of Wollongong
The global Chocolate Scorecard evaluates traders and brands on efforts to address child labour, deforestation and other measures.
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Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia
But there are some simple steps you can take to keep your personal information safe.
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TC Weekly podcast
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Defence expert Hugh White says Australia should leave AUKUS and plan to “take responsibility for our own security”, without relying on the US coming to our aid.
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Amanda Dunn, The Conversation; Ashlynne McGhee, The Conversation
In this week’s election episode, a “dull” debate, cries of “DOGEy Dutton” and the quest to win over multicultural voters.
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Our most-read article this week
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Rob Richardson, Auckland University of Technology; Dianne Ma, Auckland University of Technology
From Spartan feasts to Sunday brunches, the way we eat has transformed since our hunter-gatherer ancestors first shared meals around the hearth.
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In case you missed this week's big stories
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Andy Marks, Western Sydney University; Andrea Carson, La Trobe University; Emma Shortis, RMIT University
With all the usual policy issues canvassed, neither leader made a major mistake, but nor did they land any significant blows on their opponent.
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Frank Jotzo, Australian National University
The election campaign must prioritise climate policy to ensure the next government drives the transition to a clean economy in a world upended by Donald Trump.
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Jane McAdam, UNSW Sydney
The Australia–Tuvalu Falepili Union, as it is known, is the world’s first bilateral agreement to create a special visa like this in the context of climate change.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The move to try to return public servants to the office full time has been a bugbear for the opposition from the start.
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James Giesecke, Victoria University; Robert Waschik, Victoria University
The losses under Trump’s original tariff plan would have been significant. But even after the latest policy U-turn, the costs to the US will still be high.
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Amin Saikal, Victoria University
Donald Trump has given Iran two months to agree to a new nuclear deal or be prepared for war. Here’s how both sides could come to an agreement.
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Grant Duncan, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
As he prepares to blow out 80 candles this Friday, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters continues to defy political gravity.
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Jesse Kearse, Kyoto University
Calculating the dual effect of rising seas and sinking land gives coastal communities a more accurate projection of the impacts of sea-level rise.
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Zena Assaad, Australian National University
The Turing test has been popularised as the ultimate indicator of machine intelligence. But the truth is more complicated.
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Paul Griffin, The University of Queensland
It’s safe to get a COVID vaccine and a flu shot at the same time. Here’s what else you need to know.
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