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People in the UK continue to die from alcohol while the government continues to cut funding for treatment services.
New technologies and user-level data mean that wealthy companies can influence our politics in ways not open to ordinary people.
The steady flow of politicians and government staffers switching sides to lobby for powerful food, alcohol and gambling companies is a threat to public health.
Australian politics’ ‘revolving door’ is undermining efforts to counter lobbying and potential corruption, and the regulation system is hopelessly flawed.
GetUp is already subject to the same type of regulation as a political party. By challenging its links to left-wing parties, though, the Coalition is seeking to strip away its claim of independence.
One in four former ministers go on to take lucrative roles with special interest groups after leaving politics. Our current standards regulating this practice aren’t being enforced adequately.
A political scientist warns that a new lobbying initiative launched by Bill and Melinda Gates could harm US higher education.
To defend traditional Italian products such as meats and cheeses – delicious, but often high in fat and salt – the country’s government has launched an intense lobbying campaign to fight nutrition labels.
The American Israeli Public Action Committee has managed to work with Democrats and Republicans alike. Will that change now that Israel has tacked to the right?
Despite impassioned pleas for gun control legislation after 2018’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, Congress has failed to pass meaningful reform. Why doesn’t policy follow public opinion?
SIFA claims it wants to ‘simplify, not weaken’ gun control laws in Australia. But it’s following the same playbook as the NRA in America – and hoping for similar results.
Exxon Mobil has a clear motive to back a new plan to tax carbon with its clout and money. And a carbon tax that is high enough to work might prove politically impossible to enact.
A legal loophole could grant computer systems many legal rights people have – threatening human rights and dignity and setting up some real legal and moral problems.
Canadian dairy farmers were already well-heeled and well-protected from world market forces, but their cash grab over something called diafiltered milk has put the entire Canadian economy at risk.
Public trust in government is sliding and there’s a perception that a small elite is reaping the benefits of political influence. This points to the need for a federal anti-corruption body.
The environmental responsibility some businesses say they embrace is only a veneer.
Food safety issues are at heart political.
It’s time to stop confusing sterile debates and pseudoscience with the healthy controversies that nourish scientific progress.
The nation’s biggest gun advocacy group operates as a bundle of distinct organizations. It’s a fairly common arrangement, followed also by the likes of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU.
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Lecturer in Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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