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Australians are more millennial, multilingual and less religious: what the census reveals

Image: Dean Lewins/AAP Census data released Tuesday shows Australia changing rapidly before COVID, gaining an extra one million residents from overseas in the past five years,...

From October, it will be all but impossible for most Australians to vape — largely because of Canberra’s little-known ‘homework police

  Picture: Steven Senne/AP After a misstep, it’s about to become illegal to import e-cigarettes without a prescription, which means that, for most Australians, it’ll...

My super fund just failed the APRA performance test. What’s next?

  Image: iQonceptShutterstock Failure is only the beginning. Thirteen of Australia’s 80 closely-regulated MySuper superannuation funds have failed the APRA performance test. There’s a fair chance you are...

Paying Australians $300 to get fully vaccinated would be value for money

  Picture: Dimitris Barletis/Shutterstock I reckon Albo’s on the right track. The opposition leader wants to pay A$300 to every Australian who is fully vaccinated by December...

Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment

  Image: ParabolStudio/Shutterstock In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind — so energy-inefficient...

Electricity has become a jigsaw. Coal is unable to provide the missing pieces

 Image: Bohbeh/Shutterstock There’s something the energy minister said when they announced the early closure of Victoria’s second-biggest coal-fired power station last week that was less...

Scalable without limit: how the government plans to get coronavirus support into our hands quickly

Image: Shuttlestock The government says its second stimulus package – the second in ten days – is temporary and targeted, but that’s not really true. What it is...

The dirty secret at the heart of the projected budget surplus: much higher tax bills

Bill shocks are the flipside of a surplus built on higher tax collections and tighter access to support payments. Shutterstcok The budget is bouncing out...

Deeming rates explained. What is deeming, how does it cut pensions, and why do we have it?

Deeming rates began as a way to stop people cheating in order to obtain the pension. Shutterstock Now it’s the Coalition that’s being accused of...

Words that matter. What’s a franking credit? What’s dividend imputation. And what’s “retiree tax”?

There are words you’ll need to understand. But imputation is complex, like the tax system. Wes Mountain You’re forgiven for being confused. Newspapers need to economise...
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