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We’re becoming dumb and dumber – welcome to the idiocracy

The human capacity for mental focus is in decline. I’m feeling it, people.

  • Cherie Gilmour

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Jim Chalmers will warn of the economic costs facing Australia because of Donald Trump’s trade war.

Chalmers’ grim warning about Trump’s escalating trade war

As the OECD warns Donald Trump’s tariffs will slow the global economy and push up inflation, Jim Chalmers says there will be a direct impact on Australia.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi

Falling fertility rates will hurt the economy. But a new baby boom is not the answer

Australia’s fertility rates have been falling fast and are now at rock bottom. The economic consequences will be far-reaching.

  • Matt Wade
School hats and blazers

Public-private school divide against national spirit

If our politicians were required to send their offspring to state schools, there would be a dramatic change in funding.

The school funding debate is far from settled.

You think there’s no divide in school funding? Take this history lesson

While public schools are starved of resources and private school remain overfunded, let’s cut to the chase.

  • Ken Boston
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‘It’s everywhere’: The ‘disturbing’ rise of the world’s most-rampant forever chemical

A chemical that’s in everything from fridges to air-conditioning and is linked to birth defects is accumulating in our blood and drinking water.

  • Carrie Fellner
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About 40 per cent of Australian enrolments are in non-government schools.

Blaming private schools for the underfunding of state schools is nonsense

Australia has far more private schools than most other countries in the OECD, so it is not surprising we spend more money on them.

  • David Hastie
Australia’s real wages have fallen 4.8 per cent since 2019 - a larger than most OECD countries.

OECD’s message to our inflation warriors: calm down, she’ll be right

International public servants in Paris have reminded us that Australia’s real wages are too low. So why is the RBA so worried about continued high inflation?

  • Ross Gittins
The OECD reports Australia’s growth lags the UK, Canada and the United States.

Australian real wage growth among worst in OECD

As the government campaigns on the cost of living, the OECD reports Australia’s wage growth lags the UK, Canada and the United States.

  • Rachel Clun
Yoga instructors are on a draft priority skills list for migrants but many trades have been left off so far.

Border control can be a dog leash or a velvet rope for migrant workers

In the midst of a housing crisis, news that lifestyle and wellness workers have beaten some building workers to a spot on Australia’s draft priority skills list for migrants stretches credulity.

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