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Bob Lee - August 24, 2019

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Vale Bob Hawke, a giant of Australian political and industrial history

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Real estate agents targeting tenants is the lowest of the low blows during election 2019

Bob Lee - May 16, 2019

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Dirty Power: Big Coal’s dirty network of influence over both sides of Australian Government

Bob Lee - May 14, 2019

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Tide is turning on News Corp, and its owner

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Compare the pair: key policy offerings from Labor and the Coalition in the 2019 federal budget

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What is and isn’t a ‘sovereign risk’

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Bowen’s promise of a surplus will be hard to fudge

Bob Lee - May 10, 2019

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Dirty Coal Peddlers

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Adani will decimate Australia’s Great Artesian Basin

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Climate Change: The facts

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Election 2019 update

Bob Lee - April 21, 2019

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Murray Darling Fish Kill is Neoliberalism working

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Risky Electoral Seats

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Government advertising may be legal, but it’s corrupting our electoral process

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What just happened to our tax? Here’s an explanation you’ll understand

Bob Lee - April 7, 2019

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The Coalition says the silliest things about economic management

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The 2019 Budget entrenches neoliberal inequality

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It’s the budget cash splash that reaches back in time

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Budget 2019 at a glance: Infographic

Bob Lee - April 2, 2019

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The 2019 Pork Barrel Election

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Weasels win from any cycle of vengence

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How a power station sold for peanuts became a $730 million asset

Bob Lee - March 28, 2019

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Democracy’s danger hidden in plain sight

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Is it time to ditch the private health insurance rebate? It’s a question Labor can’t ignore

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It all begins again. Politicians chasing money and donors

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The financial sector is professional gambling in action

Bob Lee - March 14, 2018

The financial sector is professional gambling in action Shutterstock/f8studio Chris Brady, University of Salford The American journalist and poet Ambrose Bierce wrote in his 1906 satire The...

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How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests

Bob Lee - August 21, 2018

How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests Modelling should be a chance...

What do businesses get in return for their political donations?

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POLITICIANS RELY TOO HEAVILY ON CLOISTERED EXPERTS

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Eight charts on our growing tax problem: what abandoning tax reform...

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A history of failed reform: why Australia needs a banking royal...

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The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it’s time...

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Climate Change: The facts

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