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Plastic pollution hotspots pinpointed in new research – India ranks top due to high levels of uncollected waste

We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture of plastic pollution ever created with the highest environmental concentrations in India, predominantly because so much of its waste…

The Conversation

Migration remains a hot-button issue. But Australia should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater

If the problem we’re trying to solve is housing undersupply, then planning and tax policies, not migration, should be where the focus is

The Guardian - AU

Israel: 11 months of war have battered the country’s economy

After 11 months of war, Israel is facing its biggest economic challenge in years. Data shows that Israel’s economy is experiencing the sharpest slowdown among the wealthiest countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The Conversation

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Why are UK teens the least happy in Europe?

A recent report showed UK’s teenagers have grown dissatisfied with life. It calls for economic and educational reforms.

Al Jazeera

Australia gives workers right to ignore bosses’ after-hours calls, emails

The country is the latest to pass legislation granting a ‘right to disconnect’ outside of work hours.

Al Jazeera

The WTO isn't solving the problems of global trade. Maybe the answer is for it to try to do less

The WTO should pivot from trying to enforce the rules of global trade to giving countries a space to figure out solutions on their own.

Fortune

The door to an Australian tech tax is clearly ajar. Can Labor make it happen?

There’s a long track record of government subsidising traditional media – but patch-up jobs and sweetheart deals have reached the end of their useful lifespan

The Guardian - AU

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Extremist or mainstream: how do Tim Walz’s policies match up globally?

As Minnesota governor he took action on school meals, climate, family leave, guns and more – how does that compare with other developed countries?

The Guardian - US

The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is right to recognise that Britain needs to move away from an economic model that seeks growth by making workers poorer

The Guardian - UK

More secure jobs and higher unemployment benefits would help lift Australia’s birth rate

Across developed countries, including Australia, fewer babies are being born.

The Conversation

Alarm bells over Australian universities’ financial dependence on international students

Critics across the sector say institutions have become trapped in an unstable business model as they try to make up for loss of government funding

The Guardian - AU

Retirement as we know it is ending – it’s time to rethink the idea of working age

When do you think you’ll retire? Aged 65? Younger, if you’re lucky? Maybe older if you’re unlucky – or if you’re young right now?

The Conversation

A second Trump presidency would send Australia down a dark economic path. Here’s how it might play out

Under Trump’s tariff plans, our GDP would take a hit amid a nightmare trade war – and while we’re at it, forget emissions reductions or global agreements

The Guardian - AU

AI could become the ‘new steel’ as overcapacity risk goes unnoticed

When various governments intervene to increase capacity, as they have done with steel and may now be doing with AI, we struggle with spillover effects.

Fortune

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Small modular reactors have promise. But we found they’re unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050

Australia’s clean energy transition is already underway, driven by solar, wind, batteries and new transmission lines.

AAP

Small modular reactors are a 'chimera' for now

An academy has casts its eye over the commercial viability of small modular reactors in development and finds any full-scale application is decades away.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition’s nuclear plan delaying decisions on renewables, investors say

Talk of building reactors in Australia is breeding uncertainty and delaying decisions to back major solar and wind projects

The Guardian - AU

Australian workers’ living standards have been destroyed – and there is little good news ahead

While interest rates may have peaked, the labour market is fragile and the economy is set to slow even further

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The Canberra Times

Australia bucks OECD trend with increasing trust in public sector

Survey shows what people think of public servants and governments.

The Conversation

Why real wages in Australia have fallen while they’ve risen in most other OECD countries

Australia is now in the same league as Lithuania, Estonia and Hungary when it comes to cutting real pay, according to a new OECD report.

The Conversation

Australian families spend far more on private schooling than many other countries. Here’s why that’s a problem

If you feel like you’re paying a lot for your child’s private school education, that’s because you probably are.

The Conversation

NHS: six key challenges facing the Labour government

In 1997, Tony Blair’s election “pledge card” included a promise to cut NHS waiting lists, then totalling 1.16 million. Keir Starmer’s “first steps for change” include a similar pledge to cut waiting times, but his task is on a different scale, with 7.5 million people currently awaiting treatment. How did…

Evening Standard

Two data centres in London commuter belt to be looked at by Angela Rayner in move to boost jobs

Levelling-up Secretary Ms Rayner is asking local mayors to flag planning bids with investment opportunities