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How Australia’s NRA-inspired gun lobby is trying to chip away at gun control laws, state by state

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How Australia's NRA-inspired gun lobby is trying to chip away at gun control laws, state by state The SIFA gun lobby is running ads in Victoria targeting Labor in the hopes it can get more pro-gun independent MPs elected. Dean Lewins/AAP George Rennie, University of Melbourne One of the more noticeable ad campaigns...
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Stamp duty fever: the bad economics behind swapping stamp duty for land tax

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To paraphrase former prime minister Paul Keating, walk into any pet shop in the country and you’ll find the resident galah saying we should swap stamp duty for a land value tax. Stamp duty fever: the bad economics behind swapping stamp duty for land tax Eliminating stamp duty would bring on...
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Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth swing, bringing a hung parliament

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Dr Phelps said her win should be an encouragement for other independents wanting to enter public life. "This win tonight should signal a return of decency, integrity and humanity to the Australian government. And let's hope for a bit of common-sense on climate action," she said. Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth...
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The Morrison government’s biggest economic problem? Climate change denia

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The Morrison government's biggest economic problem? Climate change denial The government’s stubborn commitment to coal is alienating it from its natural supporters in the business community. Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Judith Brett, La Trobe University Last week Peter Costello accused Malcolm Turnbull of failing to develop an economic narrative to unite the...
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Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

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Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change Iain Stewart, ClimateWorks Australia The long-awaited special report on the science underpinning the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5℃ has been released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us that hitting this...
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New UN report outlines ‘urgent, transformational’ change needed to hold global warming to 1.5°C

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New UN report outlines 'urgent, transformational' change needed to hold global warming to 1.5°C Mark Howden, Australian National University and Rebecca Colvin, Australian National University A landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, commissioned at the breakthrough 2015 summit that brokered the Paris climate agreement, outlines what’s at stake...
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The uncivil Mr Jones

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View from The Hill: The uncivil Mr Jones Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The row over shock jock Alan Jones and what will be displayed on the Sydney Opera House sails about The Everest horse race involves two sets of issues. One is around whether it is appropriate to use this Sydney...
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‘Honeygate’ deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated

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'Honeygate' deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated The new discovery significantly deepens the ‘fake honey’ scandal. Subbotina Anna/Shutterstock.com Mark Patrick Taylor, Macquarie University and Xiaoteng Zhou, Macquarie University More than a quarter of commercial honey brands have potentially been watered down with sugar cane, corn syrup or other products,...
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Coalition’s changes to finance laws could be a ‘dreadful step backwards’

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“What is actually the point of undoing it? One actually asks, why do you want to do this?” he said. “Why is it in the benefit of the country to actually make it easier for lobbyists to pay large sums of money so that decisions are made in their favour? Shouldn’t...
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Labor to hold its own ‘hearings’ for bank victims

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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Labor will flush out more victims of the banks and other financial institutions by holding a series of roundtables in cities and towns that have not been visited by the royal commission. Opposition leader Bill Shorten has announced that shadow minister for financial services Clare O'Neil...
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