Female voters are queueing up to belt Scott Morrison, and it could get very ugly
Allegations Victoria's government logging agency spied on its critics have sparked an investigation by the state's Information Commissioner.
Key points:
- Last year a private investigator told the ABC VicForests hired him to "dig up dirt" on an activist
- OVIC is now investigating whether the Privacy Act or Freedom of Information laws were breached
- The activist who was allegedly spied on is pleased to see an investigation, but worries it won't go far enough
- VicForests under investigation for potential Privacy Act breach over spying allegations
Revisiting Hannah Arendt’s ideas about social isolation and mass resentment.
‘I’ve been struggling in ways I didn’t expect’: A lesson in writing from a Booker Prize winner
For this Spectrum series, we asked six authors to write about a time they changed their mind. For Damon Galgut, the brief prompted no shortage of torment
Organised crime rampant across Australia, secret briefings reveal
Chinese-speaking Communist voters critical of Coalition’s ‘militaristic’ stance on China in lead-up to 2022 election, WeChat study shows
Labor also faces criticism, but Albanese is gaining ground in news coverage on Chinese social media platform, research finds
‘I’ve been struggling in ways I didn’t expect’: A lesson in writing from a Booker Prize winner
Labor also faces criticism, but Albanese is gaining ground in news coverage on Chinese social media platform, research finds
- By Damon Galgut
Crypto assets were supposed to behave quite differently to conventional investments. It turns out that they do. In a “risk-off” environment they perform far worse.
The selling points for crypto assets used to be that they weren’t correlated to other assets classes and therefore would provide diversification from conventional holdings of shares and bonds and also provide a hedge against inflation. It turns out none of those previous investor convictions has proven true.
I addressed a meeting of the European Parliament sub-committee on Tax Matters today, addressing the issue of how Russian oligarchs abuse tax systems to avoid
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Do welfare payments limit crime?
The effect of SSI removal on criminal justice involvement persists more than two decades later, even as the effect of removal on contemporaneous SSI receipt diminishes. In response to SSI removal, youth are twice as likely to be charged with an illicit income-generating offense than they are to maintain steady employment at $15,000/year in the labor market. As a result of these charges, the annual likelihood of incarceration increases by a statistically significant 60% in the two decades following SSI removal. The costs to taxpayers of enforcement and incarceration from SSI removal are so high that they nearly eliminate the savings to taxpayers from reduced SSI benefits.
And:
The increase in charges is concentrated in offenses for which income generation is a primary motivation (60% increase), especially theft, burglary, fraud/forgery, and prostitution.
That is from a new NBER working paper by Manasi Deshpande and Michael G. Mueller-Smith.
