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

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Bowen’s promise of a surplus will be hard to fudge In Australian politics, handing down a budget surplus has become the acid test of a government’s economic management credentials. The Liberal Party often draws a contrast between the ALP, which has not run a budget surplus since 1989, and the...
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Dirty Coal Peddlers

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The coal industry has infiltrated Australia's federal government through a secretive network of ties, working to influence Australia’s political decisions at the highest level: right up to the office of the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison GREENPEACE HAS UNCOVERED THE WEB OF CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE WORLD’S BIGGEST COAL GIANTS, INDUSTRY GROUPS,...
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Adani will decimate Australia’s Great Artesian Basin

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Unpacking the flaws in Adani's water management plan Matthew Currell, RMIT University and Adrian Werner, Flinders University Adani’s groundwater dependent ecosystem management plan for its proposed Carmichael coal mine was recently approved by federal Environment Minister Melissa Price, despite a review from CSIRO and Geoscience Australia that points out major problems...
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Climate Change: The facts

POLITICS
Sir David Attenborough's new BBC documentary on climate change has been praised by TV critics. Climate Change - The Facts, shown on BBC One on Thursday, was a "rousing call to arms", said the Guardian. In a four-star review, the Times said the veteran presenter "took a sterner tone... as though...
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Election 2019 update

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Murray Darling Fish Kill is Neoliberalism working

POLITICS
Initially this newspaper proposed that the Murray Darling Basin catastrophe was the proverbial “Canary in the Coal Mine” and the fish kill was but a symptom of the growing degradation and destruction of the Great Artesian Basin. Sadly this is only partially true. Greed, power and self interest “neoliberal theory”  is unapologetically...
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Risky Electoral Seats

POLITICS
Now that the Federal Election is underway, there will be countless promises pledges spin and utter bullshit. With both sides hurling criticisms and sledges padded with innuendos and deceptions. There are 151 seats in the House of Representatives up for grabs. The major mud slingers are not going to appear...
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Government advertising may be legal, but it’s corrupting our electoral process

POLITICS
The Coalition government’s use of taxpayer money for political advertising – as much as A$136 million since January, according to Labor figures - is far from an aberration in Australia. It is part of a sordid history in which public resources have routinely been abused for electoral advantage. Government advertising may...
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What just happened to our tax? Here’s an explanation you’ll understand

POLITICS
What just happened to our tax? Here's an explanation you'll understand So far, Labor is $95 ahead of the Coalition, for many Australians. Shutterstock Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University With all the announcements on tax over the past few days it’s hard to keep track. So here goes. A...
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The Coalition says the silliest things about economic management

POLITICS
Riddle me this: if “free market” politicians think that the role of governments is to get out of the way, then what do they do all day while “managing the economy”? Interest-rate policy has been delegated to the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Coalition’s fiscal policy is to offset any new...
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