Prime minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Tony Abbott have faced off in the first televised leaders’ debate of the 2013 election campaign. In a debate largely framed by the economic issues, Rudd…
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The traditional electricity industry has been stunned by the enthusiastic uptake of solar panels across the nation. Why? Because rapid uptake of rooftop solar power, solar hot water and energy efficiency…
Yawn. Scratch. The joys of our own curation during this election mean we can shun the mainstream media doing its usual thing of picking sides for us. And pick our own. For years mainstream media has manipulated…
Could the producers of the ABC’s Q&A have predicted that the election would be called last Sunday? Yes. So could they have predicted that you’d need a little more, well, balance on the first election…
Drop Bears. Look up. Stay alive. pic.twitter.com/3L2yNsQJj7— David Feeney (@Feeney4Batman) August 4, 2013 The women of Australia scrutinised ALP numbers man David Feeney when he wrenched the Labor candidacy…
Anyone who wants to design a solution to the asylum seeker dilemma needs to start by understanding it’s not the product of a single phenomenon: there are five issues, all connected. To create a workable…
There has been no growth in greenhouse gas emissions in Australia over the last decade, despite economic growth of 31% over the same period, a new report has found. The findings show that conversion to…
You’re probably already familiar with face recognition technology through security surveillance or Facebook photo tagging, but the next person you see wearing Google Glass may well be using it too - despite…
After causing the collapse of the Galleon Group hedge fund in 2009, insider trading enforcements have once again shaken the hedge fund industry. Late last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission…
In the current vicious political climate, caricatures in our daily press have become more savage. Perhaps no politician has experienced this more in recent times than former prime minister Julia Gillard…
High up in the sub-alpine bogs of the Snowy Mountains lives one of Australia’s most iconic and rarest creatures, the Southern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree). This small, vividly-coloured species…
The government’s proposed cap on work-related education expense deductions will decrease long run GDP by between A$2.8 and $6 billion per year and cut national productivity growth by between 0.2 to 0.4…
The New South Wales Government will allow hunting to continue in national parks from October, after disbanding the state’s Game Council earlier this month following a scathing review of how it was being…
The empirical test of the Australian government’s refugee resettlement agreement with Papua New Guinea will be whether there is a decline in the numbers of small fishing boats overloaded with desperate…
Asylum seekers who arrive in Australian waters by boat will no longer have the chance to be settled in Australia under new policies announced by prime minister Kevin Rudd. Instead, asylum seekers arriving…
The corporate regulator’s approval of Virgin Australia’s 60% stake in fledgling low-cost carrier Tigerair (formerly known as Tiger Airways) marks the Australian aviation industry’s return to an effective…
In the last few weeks, we have seen a number of universities begin to push for extra funding from Australian philanthropists. While this move to broaden the revenue base of universities is welcome, to…
Nothing could have signalled more clearly the repositioning of the Australian government’s economic narrative than prime minister Kevin Rudd’s speech to the National Press Club. Nor was this change in…
As governments across the globe have struggled with growing government debt, the pressures of austerity and stagnant economic systems, ire has been thrown at the corporate fat cats who - according to the…
It may come as a surprise but air pollution levels indoors are almost always higher than outside, even in busy city centres. Even more surprising is that indoor plants have the ability to mitigate high…
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate professor, law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of Indigenous Leadership and Engagement and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and IT and Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Assistant, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Technology and Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Dean of Business (Indigenous Leadership & Engagement), University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior lecturer, international migration and refugee law, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney
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Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
