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Keep up-to-date with how the federal election is playing out locally. Our State of the States series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states.
When President Trump declared the US full, little did he know he was wading into a centuries-old economic debate.
Knowledge is important to produce informed policy, but an understanding of people is also vital in a democracy. And that requires listening – to all sectors of society, not only elites and lobbyists.
How do we advance Australia? Grab your tickets to hear Australia’s top experts answer just that.
Does the Electoral College encourage candidates to campaign in rural areas, as its supporters claim? And do electors actually filter the ‘passions’ of voters, as the founders wanted them to?
JFK pushed consumer rights to the top of the national agenda in 1962, leading to a raft of new laws offering new protections. But without enforcement, such rights are meaningless.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims could sue a gun maker, a decision that could open the floodgates to more lawsuits.
Psychological phenomena like confirmation bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect make it easy for people to fall for deliberate or inadvertent lies in the news.
While Trump may be an extreme example, much of the conduct Cohen highlighted reflects attitudes and actions commonplace among public companies.
Recent pipeline explosions have brought the problem of Mexico’s black market for oil into tragic relief.
Democrats such as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Markey are proposing an ambitious decarbonization plan that critics are calling unaffordable. A green economist explains how the US could pay for it.
Hijab-wearing culture in Indonesia has changed over time. The hijab is becoming much more popular, so why does it remain a source of controversy?
With ExxonMobil set to begin oil production in Guyana next year, this tiny South American country will soon become unthinkably rich. But neighboring Venezuela shows how an oil boom can go bust.
Being the media-savvy women that they were, suffragists realized they needed to come up with a meaningful, recognizable brand.
Although US debt may be at eye-popping levels, an economist explains why it shouldn’t keep you up at night.
Parliaments might argue more but they make democracy more stable and produce stronger economies.
American politics has gotten more partisan in the last 50 years. One of the reasons: the closing of local newspapers.
Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder happened at a consulate, a space not subject to the laws of the host country, Turkey. That means the alleged murderers did not fear interference by local authorities.
The Fed abruptly ended two years of aggressive interest rate hikes, signaling the longest economic expansion on record may be coming to a close.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
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Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University
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Senior Professorial Lecturer, Co-Director Transatlantic Policy Center, American University School of International Service
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Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia (UIII)
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Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
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Subject coordinator in Asian Studies, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus of Politics, London Metropolitan University
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
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Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
