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Political donations 2017-18: search all the declarations by Australian parties

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Today Australian voters have discovered who was bankrolling the nation’s political parties more than 18 months ago. Gambling lobby gave $500,000 to Liberals ahead of Tasmanian election In the lead-up to the Tasmanian election, the Liberals surprised many with a costly saturation advertising blitz, which analysts believed represented the most expensive...
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Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission Report

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South Australian report also finds negligence and unlawful actions in drawing up multibillion-dollar deal to save river system Let's go through the responsible ministers' responses, one by one. Environment Minister Melissa Price has not been spotted anywhere near the vicinity of the crime scene or fronted the media for comment. Minister for...
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Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it’s not just the technical risks

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Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks The Narrabri ‘Big Picture’ event in November 2015 brought together people from across the region in opposition to coal seam gas extraction.. Selen Ercan, Author provided Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Australian National University; Selen A. Ercan, University of...
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Murray Darling & Great Artesian Basin are dying

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Talk about killing your darlings. Our habitual Australia Day flags-and-dates furore tells more about our insecurities than we’d like. Easy solutions to both dilemmas present themselves. Lose the day. Don’t change the date, dump it. We hardly need another holiday so soon after the Weeks-of-the-Long-Hammock and if (as we profess) it’s love for our...
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We’re awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people

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We're awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people Nicholas Gruen, University of Technology Sydney It’s almost Australia Day and hundreds of us are in line for an award. Sadly, as unpublished research by my firm Lateral Economics reveals, many will get it for little more than doing their job. And...
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The truth about political donations: there is so much we don’t know

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Approximately $15 million in donations was disclosed by donors, a small proportion of parties' total funding. The Liberal Party received $95 million in funding across its eight separate divisions, which includes donations and other receipts such as investment returns and rent. The ALP received funding of $71 million, the Nationals $12...
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The ‘great Australian silence’ 50 years on

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The 'great Australian silence' 50 years on Detail from Julie Shiels’ 1954 poster White on black: The annihilation of Aboriginal people and their culture cannot be separated from the destruction of nature. State Library of Victoria Anna Clark, University of Technology Sydney It’s 50 years since the anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner gave the 1968...
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Murray Darling Basin disaster. Why?

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Nationals leader and acting PM brushes off suggestions government could do more to solve Menindee Lakes crisis, saying ‘that’s Australia’ Michael McCormack has brushed off suggestions the government could do more to solve the Murray-Darling fish-kill crisis, blaming drought that he says will soon be relieved by flooding rains because...
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The Murray-Darling Basin: Water, markets, money and more money

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If the Department of Agriculture paid 2,500% above the average price for water in the Lower Darling, there appears to be one clear loser — the Australian taxpayer. Mark Zanker reports. Nationals leader and acting PM brushes off suggestions government could do more to solve Menindee Lakes crisis, saying ‘that’s Australia’ Michael McCormack has brushed...
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What lies beneath the cracks in Opal Tower — and buildings across Australia

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The saga of Opal Tower, the 36-storey Sydney apartment building evacuated on Christmas Eve after frightening cracking, has helped to expose the deep cracks in Australia's approach to building apartments. The big lesson from Opal Tower is that badly built apartments aren't only an issue for residents Laura Crommelin, UNSW; Bill...
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