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Brian Howe on what Bill Shorten must do to revitalise social democracy

  • Written by: Brian Howe, Professorial Associate in the Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne

Over the weekend, The Australian published a piece by Troy Bramston, plugging his recent biography of Paul Keating. In the article, Keating is quoted as suggesting Bill Shorten is not the right person to lead the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He argues that Shorten has led the Party too far from the political centre and that this is part of the...

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Discount chemists are cheapening the quality of pharmacy along with the price

  • Written by: Greg Kyle, Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology

Every day, more discount pharmacy stores and chains are opening and assaulting health-care consumers with the “we are cheaper” message. But is price the best way to achieve positive health-care outcomes?

Community pharmacists are the only Australian health-care professionals to practise in a retail environment. When a patient...

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Yes, you're entitled to your opinion - but it helps if you're a man

  • Written by: Danielle Wood, Fellow, Australian Perspectives, Grattan Institute

Newspaper opinion pages are a largely male affair. Flick through the pages of the Australian Financial Review (AFR) or our other major newspapers over breakfast and you’ll find them even more homogeneous than the accompanying bowl of porridge.

In the six months to September this year, I collected data from the double page opinion sections of...

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Australia can't bank on an iron ore Trump bump in the long term

  • Written by: Lee Smales, Associate Professor, Finance, Curtin University
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Trump’s fiscal policies could mean commodities rally in the short term, boosting the Australian government’s budget, but this could be undone in the long term as his trade policies are bad news for base metals and energy commodities.

Global growth and movements in commodity prices have important implications for the Australian economy....

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