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A shocker performance, even by coup standards

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View from The Hill: A shocker performance, even by coup standards Scott Morrison is sworn in as the 30th prime minister of Australia by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. AAP/Lukas Coch Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra When they turn nasty, politicians can be an extraordinarily ugly lot. This week, the Liberals looked hideous –...
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Senior ministers deal death blow to Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership

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Senior ministers deal death blow to Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministership Michaelia Cash and Mathias Cormann have delivered the death blow to the prime ministership of Malcolm Turnbull. AAP/Sam Mooy Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Malcolm Turnbull has been delivered a political death blow, with the resignation of three senior cabinet ministers – Mathias...
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How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests

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How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests How to move energy policy models beyond bias and vested interests Modelling should be a chance to test your assumptions, not just confirm them. Shutterstock Shirin Malekpour, Monash University and Enayat A. Moallemi, UNSW The Turnbull government’s flagship energy plan, the National Energy Guarantee,...
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FactCheck: GetUp! on the impact of US corporate tax cuts on wages

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Economic modelling produced by Victoria University’s Centre of Policy Studies (and of which I was an author) finds that despite stimulating growth in pre-tax real wages, a company tax cut would cause a fall in the average incomes of the Australian population. FactCheck: GetUp! on the impact of US corporate...
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Emma Husar allegations show a need for clearer rules about what MPs can – and cannot – do

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Emma Husar allegations show a need for clearer rules about what MPs can - and cannot - do Labor MP Emma Husar has taken personal leave while the party investigates claims against her. AAP/Mick Tsikas Yee-Fui Ng, Monash University Labor MP Emma Husar is facing pressure to resign, following revelations that she tasked her...
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A modern tragedy: Nine-Fairfax merger a disaster for quality media

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Fairfax has a charter of editorial independence, which all owners since 1990 have signed up to. Will Nine sign up to it? Will the charter have any meaning when the newspapers are owned by a company whose chairman, Peter Costello, was treasurer in the Liberal-National Coalition government of former...
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Australia’s wholesale electricity market.

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High electricity prices are here to stay, according to a new Grattan Institute report that calls on politicians to tell Australians the truth about the future of energy costs. Wholesale electricity prices rose across the National Electricity Market (NEM) by 130 per cent between 2015 and 2017. The price paid...
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Tax cuts 2018

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95% of Stage 3 Tax Cuts go to high income earners New Australia Institute analysis of stage three of the government’s income tax plan show high-income earners will get 95% of the benefit, while three-quarters of taxpayers get no benefit at all. Today the Senate has rejected stage 3 of the...
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Partially right: rejecting neoliberalism shouldn’t mean giving up on social liberalism

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Partially right: rejecting neoliberalism shouldn't mean giving up on social liberalism shutterstock. Richard Holden, UNSW and Rosalind Dixon, UNSW Richard Denniss’s Quarterly Essay, “Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next”, is a thought-provoking call to arms against an array of perceived ills – economic rationalism, market forces, small government,...
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Revealed: This is how much ordinary Australians really earn

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A casual glance at the news in recent months may have left you thinking the average Australian earns almost $85,000 a year. If that sounded insanely high to you, then your instincts were bang on. An ordinary Australian earns way, way less than that. But it doesn’t appear to have stopped...
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