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TAFE cuts teachers despite skills shortage

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Eryk Bagshaw    Education reporter    Carpentry, plumbing and painting teachers at NSW TAFE are being made redundant at one of the state’s largest institutes despite a nationwide shortage of apprentices, documents obtained by Fairfax Media reveal.    The move comes as the state government’s vocational...
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Multinational tax avoidance cost Australia $6bn in 2014, Oxfam report claims

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Mauritius is one of the most popular tax havens used by multinational corporations operating in Australia, an Oxfam report found. Photograph: Neil Farrin/Getty Images/AWL Images RM The Oxfam Report calls on government to strengthen Australia’s multinational tax avoidance laws and make financial reporting requirements more transparent The federal government lost an...
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Election FactCheck Q&A: was Jacqui Lambie right about apprenticeships and 457 visas?

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Damian Oliver, University of Technology Sydney 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. Because I can tell you what, right now...
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Politics and money: a toxic combination

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says in ‘‘an ideal world’’ he is open to political funding reform. He cites annual caps on donations and limiting them to individuals, not unions or corporations. At least that would be a start. Australia has nine different political jurisdictions that determine rules on electoral funding....
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Unclear about fairness, Australia’s major parties focus on expediency

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Unclear about fairness, Australia's major parties focus on expediency Gregory Melleuish, University of Wollongong Both of Australia’s major parties have variously used “fairness” to describe key policies and in their election pitches. Labor leader Bill Shorten emphasised the concept in Sunday’s first leaders’ debate, while Treasurer Scott Morrison said the superannuation...
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What do businesses get in return for their political donations?

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What do businesses get in return for their political donations? Lindy Edwards, UNSW Australia Money makes the world of politics go around and, as recent scandals afflicting both major political parties have shown, keeping it clean isn’t easy. Our series on Australia’s system of political finance examines its regulation, operation and...
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Introduce Optional Preferential Voting

POLITICS
This was the major electoral recommendation of the 2009 Citizens’ Parliament which assembled 150 randomly selected citizens drawn from every electorate nationally. (Disclosure Note: this event was funded and operated by the Foundation. Full findings are found here. In practice, this serves to eliminate preference deals which are lightly understood...
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Eliminate Private Donor Funding

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Similar to the argument in favour of political advertising is that third party donations are a form of freedom of speech . A contrary view suggests that they significantly reduce public confidence in the motives of our elected representatives due to the perception that donations are only made in...
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None of the Above Voting Option

OPINION
Introduce a “None of the Above” Voting Option or End Compulsory Voting With elections designed theoretically to reflect the will and voice of the people, this reform would allow dissatisfied and disengaged citizens to be heard while creating a clear distinction with inadvertent informal votes. The “none of the above” reform is...
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Back to the centre

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The electorate is not as volatile as we might imagine By George Megalogenis For the third election in a row, Australians are being offered a choice between a government that can’t run on its record and an Opposition that pretends it is ready to return to office. A third election in...
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