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Philip Lowe is grabbing a rare opportunity to push the floor under unemployment lower. DARREN ENGLAND/AAP

July 2, 2019

Ultra-low unemployment is in our grasp. How Philip Lowe became the governor who lifted our ambition

Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Philip Lowe is on the cusp of permanently changing Australia. He stands a good chance of being one of the best governors since the first, who ushered in the goal of full employment.

Bringing coal-fired power to the poor also means bringing pollution. Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons

October 29, 2015

Is there really a ‘moral case for coal’? The answer is about far more than money

Janna Thompson, La Trobe University

Considerations of the moral case for coal must do far more than consider whether cheap fossil energy will lift people out of poverty. It must consider the pollution and harm to nature that come with it.

Bernie Fraser, Greg Hunt and Clive Palmer announce the Climate Change Authority’s emissions trading review last year, after Palmer prevented the authority being abolished. AAP/Alan Porritt

September 11, 2015

Ignored by the government, shrunk by resignations – where now for Australia’s Climate Change Authority?

Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt University

The Climate Change Authority, rocked by this week’s resignation of its chairman Bernie Fraser but saved last year by the Senate, will continue reviewing climate policy - even if its advice is ignored.

Bernie Fraser has resigned as chair of the Climate Change Authority. Lukas Coch/AAP

September 8, 2015

Bernie Fraser quits Climate Change Authority after difficulties with Hunt

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

The chairman of the Climate Change Authority, Bernie Fraser, has quit – apparently after a long period of bad relations with Environment Minister Greg Hunt.

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