The message of an exciting future through innovation and high-tech start-ups has failed to engage the Australian community.
The Western Distributor project announced by the Andrews government will benefit Melbourne’s suburban residents in the west and north, but inner-city elites are mobilising against it.
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It’s a project that creates benefits for Melbourne’s western suburbs and the state as a whole. But the inner-city elite don’t like it and recent experience suggests their opinion holds sway.
Now that the election is done and dusted what needs to change in politics?
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The major parties seem to be having considerable difficulty drawing lessons from the recent election campaign. Of course, there are many. The most obvious, but probably the most difficult for them to accept…
The new vote capture system is a consequence of the recent Senate voting rule changes.
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The new Senate vote capture system had to be built rapidly, with little time for design or testing, and is being operated in a way that allows only part of the process to be scrutinised.
The government’s first priority should be to improve conditions in offshore detention centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
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The key challenge for the returned Turnbull government is to formulate policies that present Australia as a good global citizen willing to take its fair share of refugees.
The idea of regulating what is ‘true’ in political speech is neither new nor easy.
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University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Professor Nicholas Klomp and Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
All the policies announced on multinational tax avoidance so far, fail to address one of the simplest avoidance measures used.
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Malcolm Turnbull returns to the helm with a wafer-thin majority and a significant element in his government who still oppose climate action - can he defy the odds and serve up some credible policy?
Malcolm Turnbull reaffirmed the government’s intention to put its industrial relations bills back to the parliament.
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To understand how Australia’s political uncertainty is being seen elsewhere, we reconvened our panel of experts from the UK, US, Indonesia and NZ to respond to the election results.
By increasing their numbers within the government, the Nationals were the surprise success story of the election, with a very locally focused campaign.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party is seen as the favourite to secure the final WA Senate position.
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One Nation candidate Rod Culleton could win Western Australia’s final Senate position, but Section 44 of the Constitution suggests he is ineligible to take his seat.
Australia’s political leaders were silent on a number of key issues during the election campaign.
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The problem confronting political parties is that the people in leadership positions are intellectually and emotionally ill-equipped to grasp the complex transformation in human affairs now under way.