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I explore the voting patterns of trade union members in Australian elections conducted between 1966 and 2004, and find that on average, 63 percent of trade union members vote for the Australian Labor Party. Despite the fact that union membership declined from around one-half of the workforce in...
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In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …
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Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … appear to be the main drivers of Australia’s growing prison population. …
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-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …
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Constructing a new series of incarceration rates from 1860 to 2018, I find that Australia now incarcerates a greater … appear to be the main drivers of Australia's growing prison population. …
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