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Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, now leading a clean energy research center at Colorado State University, explains why clean energy will keep growing despite President Trump’s focus on fossil fuel.
A new federalism? Trump’s decision to green-light the Dakota Access Pipeline and early battles with states show a disregard for the sovereignty of domestic government bodies.
California has set ambitious goals for cutting carbon emissions and shifting to a clean energy economy. How will this strategy affect the state’s huge economy? An economist weighs the evidence.
No state wants to see its revenue base decline – particularly when the jurisdiction benefiting doesn’t even tax (or regulate) its bookies as well as it might.
Federal politicians and the public like the idea of abolishing the states. But consider the likely result: a more powerful Canberra, with regional governments amounting to glorified shire councils.
Leaving aside party-politics, there are good reasons why Australia should consider changing its Constitution to abolish state governments.
As the National Park Service turns 100 years old, two conservation scholars and former park rangers respond to critics who support privatizing national parks or putting them under state control.
The path back to surplus inevitably winds through state finances. And it’s a potholed road.
Commitment to a stronger, ongoing and more bipartisan federal reform process is one of the true tests of modern political leadership.
The reality is that intergovernmental relations are not the strong point of federal systems generally. But some do it better than others.
The role both state and federal governments play in Australia’s urban regions is often incompatible with effective metropolitan governance.
A better tax system and long-term budget sustainability starts with this blueprint.
If the system was fixed project funding would be more likely to be based on merit.
If states controlled more of their school funding, competition could lead to innovation where the best ideas are adopted nationwide.
Giving states the power to levy income tax won’t make up for the shortfall in health and education funding and it could mean poorer states are worse off.
Malcolm Turnbull’s bold plan to give states the power to levy income tax is a risky move, and the latest in a string of attempts to ‘fix’ federal-state relations that have not succeeded.
There’s more than one way to restore Australia to genuine federation.
Free market economists love the idea, but not everyone would welcome the competition.
There’s a reason the states have generally agreed to levy taxes in a uniform way.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Dean and Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Politics, Curtin University
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UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer of Political Science, Georgia Gwinnett College
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Director of Research and Development, Pivot Professional Learning; and Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Australian Politics, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor of Politics. Griffith Business School, Griffith University
