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Labour’s proposed capital gains tax has revived a debate long deemed politically toxic. But growing pressure on NZ’s tax system is making it harder to avoid.
The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.
A new analysis of more than 10,000 first-time drink-driving cases reveals a troubling disparity.
People with disability are more likely to die from cancer than the overall population. Here’s how we can shift this striking inequity.
A review of research over two decades points to steps that can make education systems more resilient in times of crisis.
19 US cities have introduced local reparations initiatives to address historic harms against Black residents. But designing a program that is both popular and sustainable isn’t easy.
We found concerns about income inequality in Australia are strongly related to dissatisfaction with democracy. This suggests Australia’s satisfaction with democracy is at risk.
We can’t rely on rich countries to donate mpox vaccines. Here’s what we need to do instead.
Neighbourhood planning with community engagement is now treated as a barrier to better cities. For disadvantaged neighbourhoods, this shift threatens to perpetuate inequities.
Historical housing discrimination in Detroit persists today and causes disparities in health outcomes. Policies are making a difference, but more needs to be done.
Community-engaged research was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions, meaning researchers faced serious challenges when their results were most needed: during a public health crisis.
Wall Street and big law firms are famous for their hard-charging, cutthroat work cultures. Here’s one reason they should reconsider.
A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.
The last decade has seen no measurable change in global preterm birth rates in any region of the world.
Higher levels of income inequality in youth are associated with increased ‘deaths of despair’ in young Canadians.
Idaho, Montana and Florida had the highest population growth among US states between 2020 and 2022.
School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
Breaking the cycle of poverty for future generations requires talking about it with children now, and helping them understand the causes of economic inequality.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
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Professor in Urbanism and Infrastructure, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, Swinburne University of Technology
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications; Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
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Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard University
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Reader of Public Policy, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology