Michael Hopkin, La Conversation Canada; Madeleine De Gabriele, La Conversation Canada et Wes Mountain, La Conversation Canada
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science: Research Fellow at the Cairns Institute; Research Associate for Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland, James Cook University