A narrow definition of family can neglect the experiences of many people and can impact policy and programs. It’s time to expand our ideas of what family means.
Involving people with disabilities in developing knowledge and policy on disability will significantly help reduce interest bias and untangle the complexity of disability.
Ensuring older people can continue to socialise is important for preventing loneliness and cognitive decline.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.
President Harry S Truman established the initial version of the National Intelligence Council.
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The National Intelligence Council works inside government but is little understood outside. Yet it has helped respond to almost all the major foreign policy challenges of the last 40 years.
Coffee bushes in a shade-grown plantation in the Andes, Ecuador.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has revived a presidential advisory unit shut down by his predecessor. He needs it if he is to use his power effectively to improve his government’s policy coherence.
Labor has promised to establish a new office of Evaluator General to oversee high-quality evaluations of government programs.
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While the Treasury secretary says House Democrats lack a ‘legitimate’ reason for demanding Trump’s tax returns, a former IRS attorney explains that the law says otherwise.
Seen here with the Prime Minister, Karen Andrews is one of few recent ministers for science who has a university education in STEM.
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We’ve had ten federal ministers with titular responsibility for science since 2007 – five under the coalition and five under Labor. That variation and a lack of consistent vision has an impact.
Interdisciplinary programs can help to address Canada’s data deficit gap.
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Despite impassioned pleas for gun control legislation after 2018’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, Congress has failed to pass meaningful reform. Why doesn’t policy follow public opinion?
The Kavanaugh hearings were about the only thing Congress has done with a link to #MeToo.
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Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
In the last year, workplace culture faced major upheaval for working women. We at The Conversation put together our reporting on that very topic from 2018.
Though agriculture is a necessity, we rarely take time to understand the realities of the farming industry and the farmers who toil on the land.
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Universal low-cost childcare and workplace flexibility will help mothers return to the workplace and are important investments in the Australian workforce.
Argentines protest the austerity measures of the IMF bailout.
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A deep recession, a severe drought and a plunging currency have led to the biggest bailout in IMF history. The government hopes it can avoid the meltdowns that followed past crises.
There is good research emerging from Africa on educational issues.
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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University