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Parliamentary budget offices are considered international best practice – they are intended to bring more honesty to the budget process. Shutterstock

Who watches the watchmen? Lessons from Uganda’s budget office

The scandal at Uganda’s Parliamentary Budget Office shows that figuring out the proper roles, functions, internal controls, and capacities is more pressing than ever.
The cracks are starting to show. Dean McCartney

The problem with reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is everywhere. But unlike plain concrete, which can last for centuries, reinforced concrete can deteriorate in decades as the reinforcing bars succumb to rust.
On Orange is the New Black, the many female bodies are simultaneously powerful, transgressive, marginalised and desirable. Tilted Productions/Lionsgate Television

Five ways Orange is the New Black changed TV for the better

Since Orange is the New Black was released in 2013, it has redefined images of femininity on screen and paved the way for a host of new woman-centred TV shows.
Plenty of young Aboriginal people play football. Why aren’t they moving into professional coaching? Rusty Stewart

Why are so few professional sport coaches from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?

Coaches are mentors, community leaders and educators who can change lives. But Aboriginal coaches find it hard to step up to the next level - is a form of racism at play?
US Fed Chair Janet Yellen is worried about the slowdown in job creation. Charles Mostoller/Reuters

Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the…
Homo floresiensis skull from Liang Bua (left) and modern human skull (right). Peter Brown (University of New England).

The Hobbit took our breath away: now it’s the new normal

It’s been a big year for the early human species Homo floresiensis - aka ‘the Hobbit’ - and the scientists who found it. Way back in 2004 this was the discovery that threatened to rewrite the textbooks…
Malcolm Turnbull’s short biographical video on social media talks about being raised by his single-parent father, and the love his father Bruce showered on his son. AAP/Lukas Coch

Honour thy parents, lead thy nation: Turnbull and Shorten play to the family feeling

Malcolm Turnbull’s video and Bill Shorten’s book are underpinned by the same idea: the love their parents had for them, and that in turn imbued them with the right qualities to become prime minister.

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