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Jacinda Ardern’s graceful departure is the personification of modern democratic ideals

FUA AWARDS
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as prime minister of New Zealand and will be leaving office on 7 February. World leadership has rarely seen anything like her. The dignity and integrity of her departure strikes a paradoxically powerful note, especially at a time when political transition in democracies from the United...
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Robodebt and the transmission of shame

ECONOMY
Kathryn Campbell stifled a laugh when, in September 2018, she recalled the rollout of the robodebt program during her time as head of the Department of Human Services. “What happened was a number of the letters went out and people didn’t either receive the letters or respond to the...
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You pay millions for these imbeciles to encourage conspiracy theories and misinformation. Why?

COAL
We get so used to the bonkers shit that goes on in the Australian Senate that it starts to seem unremarkable. Frustrating, exasperating, eye-rolling, but also just the way it is, with its cast of zany characters making illogical, fantastical claims with their publicly funded platforms. So it was...
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The worst government in our history

POLITICS
John Hewson writes the lesson of the recent history of the Liberal Party is that it doesn’t learn from history. It learnt nothing from the drubbing that Kerryn Phelps gave Dave Sharma in the Wentworth byelection,sparked by the resignation of Malcolm Turnbull. While Sharma did win back the seat in...
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Reframing tax policy to reset the rules of the monopoly game

BUSINESS
Monopolists and rentseekers have been running rings round the democratic fiscal state for decades. It is obvious to everyone that the game is rigged. But we still have a few more rolls of the dice. Let’s use them wisely. The earliest known version of Monopoly, called The Landlord’s Game, was...
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Paddy Manning paints a vivid portrait of a man born into a world of enormous wealth and privilege, destined to live out his life...

BUSINESS
Now that Rupert Murdoch is in his nineties, the question of succession has become unavoidable. His oldest son, Lachlan, would seem to be the heir-apparent, positioned to take charge of a global media empire that is as controversial as it is powerful. But how much do we really know about...
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Robo-debt: Liberals knew it was illegal before it started

ECONOMY
David Mason was the first person to give advice about a thought bubble program that would become robo-debt. In an email, he called it for what it was: a program with no legal basis that would result in serious reputational harm if it was allowed to go ahead. His assessment...
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Jim Chalmers’ ‘restraint’ budget the first stage of a marathon for the treasurer

ECONOMY
Jim Chalmers’ ‘restraint’ budget the first stage of a marathon for the treasurer Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Jim Chalmers’ inaugural budget plants its feet as solidly as possible in the shifting sands of difficult and unpredictable international and local conditions. Chalmers promised the budget would be “workmanlike”, not “flashy”, and he’s kept...
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Barangaroo is rubbish and now its wretched offspring are spawning across Sydney

FUA AWARDS
Philip Thalis asserts thatBarangaroo is a symbol of squandered opportunities to make a better Sydney. I was part of the winning team – Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and Paul Berkemeier Architect – for the 2005-6 international competition for this 22 hectares of publicly...
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