The need for speed: there’s still time to fix Australia’s NBN
Mike Quigley, University of Technology Sydney
A National Broadband Network (NBN) based on Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) was, and still is, the right answer...
Is there any hope for gambling reform in a new parliament?
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...
Election 2016: Who’s Medicare’s friend? Examine bulk-billing
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...
Mirrorless Medium Format: Hasselblad Unveils the X1D
After several tantalizing teasers and one very serious leak yesterday, the Hasselblad X1D, the world’s first compact mirrorless medium format camera, has officially arrived....
Is Medicare under threat? Making sense of the privatisation debate
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...
The Lonely Aftermath of China’s One Child Policy
Single-person households could reach 132 million by 2050
Erosion of traditional family units would increase consumption
In her chic Beijing studio, 26-year-old Summer Liu relaxes on...
Former NBN boss slams Coalition’s ‘colossal mistake’
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...
Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
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,...
Selling the family jewels. Privatisation a clear picture
The following is an excerpt from a report on privatisation commissioned by The Unitarian Church of East Melbourne prepared and written by Henrike Brussaard...
Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and...
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...
