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How one think tank poisoned Australia’s climate debate

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One of the Institute of Public Affair's greatest successes has been to stitch climate denialism into the very fabric of the conservative political identity. From anti-vaxxers to climate deniers to a general simmering scepticism of science, denialism in all its forms is everywhere. Crikey is presenting a four-part series on how the...
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Murray-Darling Basin (SA) Royal Commission Report

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It is not sufficient to make broad comments and recommendations about what should be fixed without recognizing and taking into account why and how such matters got to the stage of needing to be fixed. For example, it is clear that the management of the Basin’s water resources in a...
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The more women in government, the healthier a population

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End Washington Corruption Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected, but it isn’t working for anyone else. Companies and wealthy individuals spend billions every year to influence Congress and federal agencies to put their interests ahead of the public interest. This is deliberate, and we need to call...
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Shorten’s victory will bring dangerous counter strikes from a desperate government

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View from the Hill: Shorten's victory will bring dangerous counter strikes from a desperate government Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra An extraordinary amount of hype and some confected hysteria preceded Tuesday’s vote on the medical transfer legislation. The government threw everything at trying to avoid a defeat. In a last stand, it...
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Words that matter. What’s a franking credit? What’s dividend imputation? And what’s ‘retiree tax’?

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Words that matter. What’s a franking credit? What’s dividend imputation? And what's 'retiree tax'? There are words you’ll need to understand. But imputation is complex, like the tax system. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University You’re forgiven for being confused. Newspapers need to economise on...
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The government only wants you to focus on half the story – Labor’s taxes

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When the prime minister started the year, a big line of his economic attack was the damage the ALP’s extra $200bn worth of tax would do the economy. On 14 January he told ABC Breakfast: “Now is not the time for Labor to go and dump $200 billion of...
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Banking RC Report: The banks have learned how to rort the system

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The Banking RC Report marginalises small business borrowers, effectively calling them sore losers and whingers and telling them to bugger off once and for all, writes Dr Evan Jones. THE Financial Services Royal Commission Final Report has generated much froth and bubble in the media. Commissioner Hayne has chosen to emphasise the sins of...
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Coal miners derided climate action ‘sideshow’. Now it’s the main event

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The Chief Judge refused the Rocky Hill Coal Project, near the mid-north coast town of Gloucester, on a range of grounds, all of which are important, but what his judgment says about climate change is of greatest significance. The court accepted the evidence put by Professor Will Steffen about...
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Negative gearing changes will affect us all, mostly for the better

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Negative gearing changes will affect us all, mostly for the better Don’t have a negatively geared investment property? You’re in good company. Despite all the talk about negatively geared nurses and property baron police officers, 90 per cent of taxpayers do not use it. But federal Labor’s policy will still affect you...
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Politicians in 2014 held $300m in property, so how should they influence housing policy?

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Canberra’s 226 MPs and senators own 524 properties between them – an average of 2.4 each – analysis by the ABC has found. Only 10 federal politicians don’t own property, meaning 96% of the total do, compared to the national average of just above 50%. And while the government remains strongly...
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