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How to fix Australia’s quarantine system

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by Stephen Duckett and Brendan Coates

The Federal Government needs to show national leadership in the pandemic by living up to its constitutional responsibilities for quarantining.

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24 February 2021

Why teachers need better pay and career paths

In 2019 Victoria’s Education Minister publicly supported a Grattan recommendation to increase top teacher pay by up to $80,000. But it hasn’t yet happened.

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25 February 2021

Now is an especially bad time to cut unemployment benefits

The new JobSeeker rate is way below the poverty line and the second-stingiest payment in the OECD for newly unemployed people.

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24 February 2021

Will COVID-19 change the way we travel around cities forever?

However we commute in the future, it’s almost certainly going to look different to pre-pandemic transport.

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