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Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Director, the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as Director at UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Writing a new book.
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Microsoft Cares About Your Privacy Increasing JobSeeker is long overdue. Here's how we could do it without breaking the budget

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By Ben Phillips
| MSN Australia Verified
Ben Phillips, Australian National University In the lead-up to the federal budget, there's much focus on what the government will do to address cost-of-living pressures for households amidrising inflationand interest rates. Research showswhere those cost-of-living stresses are greatest. It's not the vast bulk of middle-income Australia, but working-age welfare recipients. It's against this backdrop that the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee recently handed its2026 reportto government.
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Increasing JobSeeker is long overdue. Here’s how we could do it, without breaking the budget

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By Ben Phillips
| The Conversation Verified
In the lead-up to the federal budget, there’s much focus on what the government will do to address cost-of-living pressures for households amid rising inflation and interest rates. Research shows where those cost-of-living stresses are greatest. It’s not the vast bulk of middle-income Australia, but working-age welfare recipients. It’s against this backdrop that the Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee recently handed its 2026 report to government.
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Cane toads are hopping towards the Pilbara, but a water-free containment zone could stop them

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By Judy Dunlop, Ben Phillips, Tim Dempster
| The Conversation Verified
It is early evening in Australia’s top end, and a hunter stalks its prey. Keenly alert, the northern quoll follows the sound of rustling in the leaf litter. It must be some kind of frog, the small carnivorous marsupial decides, and pounces. But the quoll is seized by an immediate pain in the mouth, and drops its prey. It’s already too late. The rustling was not a frog, but a poisonous cane toad. The toad’s toxin has sprayed into the quoll’s mouth and within seconds the quoll is vomiting.
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