TAFE cuts teachers despite skills shortage
Eryk Bagshaw Education reporter
Carpentry, plumbing and painting teachers at NSW TAFE are being made redundant at one of...
Multinational tax avoidance cost Australia $6bn in 2014, Oxfam report claims
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...
Election FactCheck Q&A: was Jacqui Lambie right about apprenticeships and 457...
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...
Politics and money: a toxic combination
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says in ‘‘an ideal world’’ he is open to political funding reform. He cites annual caps on donations and limiting...
Unclear about fairness, Australia’s major parties focus on expediency
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...
What do businesses get in return for their political donations?
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...
Introduce Optional Preferential Voting
This was the major electoral recommendation of the 2009 Citizens’ Parliament which assembled 150 randomly selected citizens drawn from every electorate nationally. (Disclosure Note:...
Eliminate Private Donor Funding
Similar to the argument in favour of political advertising is that third party donations are a form of freedom of speech . A contrary...
None of the Above Voting Option
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...
Back to the centre
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...
