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The article offers information on the declining labour share of national income in Australia and its political aspects. Topics discussed include the focus of Australian economy on welfare, fiscal and labour market institutions; the impact of long Coalition rule in the country on class inequality and conflict; and the government's attempts to limit the power of labour unions.

This paper describes and contextualizes placenames on Palmerston Island, a small Pacific island populated by around 50 descendants of a mixed-origin group of settlers in the 1860s. The inhabitants today are monolingual speakers of a dialect that has been described variously as an English dialect or an English-based creole. I show that Palmerston English placenames are rarely complex or detailed descriptive names, and this can be accounted for by the small, isolated and densely-networked nature of the population. The isolation and transience of the community may also contribute to the high number of placenames that index people's names or other locations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the impact of politics to the refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. It highlights the adequacy of humanitarian assistance of the Australian government for resettling the refugees through a managed programme in the country. It also cites the increase ability of the refugees to gain admission to the refugee resettlement programme in the country.