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Is there any hope for gambling reform in a new parliament?

POLITICS
Charles Livingstone, Monash University Since then-prime minister Julia Gillard appointed Peter Slipper to the speaker’s chair in 2011, the gambling lobby has appeared triumphant in defeating any substantial reform of gambling regulation. Slipper became speaker because Gillard was under enormous pressure to back down on her agreement with independent MP Andrew...
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Election 2016: Who’s Medicare’s friend? Examine bulk-billing

POLITICS
The key to examining whether one side or the other wants to destroy Medicare is the baked-in feature that makes it work: bulk-billing. The Coalition twice knocked it back in the Senate, forcing Whitlam to call a double dissolution. It's far more clever than is widely realised, far more than a...
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Is Medicare under threat? Making sense of the privatisation debate

POLITICS
Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute Many Australians will go to the polls on July 2 believing the future of Medicare is at stake. In a sense it is – but not because of the government’s plans, now ditched under the heat of a campaign, to outsource IT functions. The greater threats to...
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Former NBN boss slams Coalition’s ‘colossal mistake’

POLITICS
FTTP 'was and still is the right answer'. Switching from a full-fibre NBN to the Coalition's multi-technology network has been "a colossal mistake", according to NBN Co founding CEO Mike Quigley. Addressing the University of Melbourne's Networked Society Institute last night and in his first public comments since leaving NBN Co in...
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Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship

POLITICS
Mike Sandiford, University of Melbourne In case you had forgotten, electricity prices were a really big deal in the last federal election campaign in 2013, albeit often disguised under the rubric of axe the tax. Then Coalition spokesmen quite deliberately and repeatedly conflated the term carbon tax with electricity tax. Clearly,...
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Selling the family jewels. Privatisation a clear picture

POLITICS
The following is an excerpt from a report on privatisation commissioned by The Unitarian Church of East Melbourne prepared and written by Henrike Brussaard and Bronwyn Price, with the support of Prof. Rob Watts (RMIT University). It is the first in a series of reports designed “to promote and...
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Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?

POLITICS
Alan Duncan, Curtin University and Rebecca Cassells, Curtin University On their watch… 50,000 full-time jobs have been lost this year alone. Over one million Australians are underemployed. – Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, speech to Queensland Labor Business Breakfast, June 8, 2016. As he launched Labor’s economic plan in Brisbane, Opposition Leader...
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Election FactCheck Q&A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?

POLITICS
Saul Eslake, University of Tasmania The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email. This nation, when you look at what we give...
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Gas projects tipped to come up empty on tax payments

POLITICS
Revenue Academic raises alarm Heath Aston: Political correspondent, SMH The contribution to federal tax revenues from multinational oil and gas companies has slumped and a senior academic has warned that the mega gas projects coming online off the Western Australian coast will not contribute a single dollar in royalty payments ‘‘in...
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Major parties are behind the times – and strangely silent – on social policy

OPINION
Eva Cox, University of Technology Sydney As we enter the business end of the election campaign, with pre-polling underway, there is a profound lack of any social welfare policies on offer from either major party. The Greens have now put up proposals, mainly to raise the levels of some of...
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