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The war on women is over - and women lost

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A recent Menzies School of Health Research study analysed the school attendance records of about 6,500 children born in the Northern Territory between 1994 and 2004. It found that two-thirds (66%) of the Indigenous students in the sample attended school less than 80% of the school days over their school career. In contrast, just 5% of non-Indigenous students fell below the touchstone 80% attendance level.

How crowded homes can lead to empty schools in the bush

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A typical cow in the European Union receives a government subsidy of $2.20 a day. The cow earns more than 1.2 billion of the world's poorest people. 

Farm subsidies gone wild: Cows in Europe earn more per day than 1.2 billion poor people

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The growth of incarceration rates among black men in recent decades combined with the sharp drop in black employment rates during the Great Recession have left most black men in a position relative to white men that is really no better than the position they occupied only a few years after the Civil Rights Act of 1965.

Neal, D. & Rick, A. (2014). Prison boom and the lack of black progress after Smith and Welsh. NBER Working Paper 20283.

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The rate of Indigenous imprisonment is nearly eighteen times that of non-Indigenous Australians — six times larger than the disparity between African-American and white imprisonment rates in the United States.

Weatherburn, D. (2014). Arresting incarceration: Pathways out of Indigenous imprisonment.

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The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: $20.2 billion.

That's more than NASA's budget. It's more than BP has paid so far for damage during the Gulf oil spill. It's what the G-8 has pledged to help foster new democracies in Egypt and Tunisia.

Among the costs of war: $20B in air conditioning