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Society & Culture

OPINION

We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment

Kasy Chambers
Kasy Chambers
Society & CultureEconomy
We're having the wrong conversation about unemployment

OPINION

Excessive unpaid overtime: What exactly is the problem and how will it be solved?

Fiona Macdonald
Fiona Macdonald
EconomySociety & Culture
Excessive unpaid overtime: What exactly is the problem and how will it be solved?

WHAT'S NEW

Australian workers are being shortchanged $95.8 billion a year in unpaid overtime

By staff writers

According to new research, if Australian workers were paid for the hours of overtime they currently do for free, they would be more than $300 a fortnight better off

EconomySociety & Culture
Australian workers are being shortchanged $95.8 billion a year in unpaid overtime

WHAT'S NEW

Bob Brown: when the law is wrong you have a duty to stand up against it

By Tegan George

Dr Brown discusses crackdowns on environmental protestors, his multiple arrests, and the importance of civil disobedience.

ClimateEnvironmentSociety & Culture
Bob Brown: when the law is wrong you have a duty to stand up against it

OPINION

Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem

Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Society & Culture

OPINION

Successful defiance is a front-foot thing. It is active, not passive.

Bob Brown

Optimism in the face of overwhelming odds may seem misguided – but the course of human history remains in our collective hands, and change is driven not by defeatism, but by intelligent, courageous, compassionate defiance of the prevailing rules.

Society & CultureEnvironment
Successful defiance is a front-foot thing. It is active, not passive.

OPINION

11th November 1975, a pivotal moment for Australian politics and me

Mike Bowers
Mike Bowers
Society & Culture
11th November 1975, a pivotal moment for Australian politics and me

OPINION

The Whitlam Sacking: A View from the Rose Garden

Elizabeth Cham
Society & Culture
The Whitlam Sacking: A View from the Rose Garden

OPINION

Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same

Michael Bradley
Society & Culture
Copyright is dead. When it comes to AI my property has been stolen all the same

WHAT'S NEW

Broken university system is letting Australians down

By Tegan George

Australian universities are facing calls for greater scrutiny and to implement standardised reporting on their financials results  as more institutions cry poor while continuing to bank large surpluses.

Society & Culture
Broken university system is letting Australians down
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