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President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive

  • Written by: Luke Kemp, Lecturer in International Relations and Environmental Policy, Australian National University
imageA US withdrawal would be game over for the Paris Agreement, but there's still hope for the climate. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center/Flickr, CC BY-NC

November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2℃ slipped out of reach.

President Donald Trump can, and likely will, drop out...

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Trickle down Trump-economics is not the fiscal policy the world needs

  • Written by: Fabrizio Carmignani, Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Now that Donald Trump has won the US Presidential election, his single most important economic tool will be fiscal policy.

Some central bankers have been calling for governments to step in and stimulate growth as monetary policy reaches the limits of its effectiveness.

President Trump’s economic policies are now a matter of global interest....

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Australia should assume Trump won't step back from his campaign commitments

  • Written by: John Hewson, Professor and Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School, Australian National University

World leaders have responded, variously, to the shock victory of Donald Trump in the US Presidential Election. Few took the opportunity as well as Germany’s Angela Merkel to specify their “terms of engagement” with the new President elect.

Merkel said:

“Germany and America are bound by their values: democracy, freedom,...

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The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region

  • Written by: Michael O'Keefe, Senior Lecturer of International Relations, La Trobe University
imageA US Navy guided-missile destroyer sails the Pacific Ocean in November 2009.Reuters/supplied

Australia’s security and prosperity is dependent on the maintenance of a particular type of world order. We know this because it has been clearly articulated in Australian defence strategy since the end of the second world war and evidenced by our...

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  1. Friday essay: Camarade – The Earth
  2. Swingers' hookup program can find the right match for endangered species
  3. Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
  4. Lovability: restoring liveability’s human face
  5. Suppressing the immune system won't improve your chances of conceiving with IVF
  6. Grattan on Friday: As one businessman to another…Malcolm and Donald begin to talk
  7. On your bike Trump
  8. Dear Mr President-elect Trump, thanks! We now live in the best of all possible worlds
  9. Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump
  10. Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow
  11. Brandis scraps direction to Solicitor-General
  12. The third global bleaching event took its toll on Western Australia's super-corals
  13. There is no female president this time, and women are divided about it
  14. Creating a healthy company requires more than good pay incentives
  15. Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?
  16. Trump can kill trade deals but he can't kill globalisation
  17. How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?
  18. This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget
  19. No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news
  20. What's in store for Asia under President Trump
  21. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  22. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
  23. We've learned a lot about heatwaves, but we're still just warming up
  24. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  25. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  26. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  27. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  28. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  29. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  30. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism
  31. President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen
  32. The markets tell us President Trump is worse than Brexit
  33. Trump the demagogue looks set to rule
  34. Vital Signs: it's a Trumptastrophe
  35. Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?
  36. Why hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against the Jakarta governor
  37. Self control, the harms of pot, and fat genes: how the 44-year-old Dunedin study keeps on giving
  38. Election day arrives and the stakes are high, not just for the US but the world
  39. Timeline: Americans, the economy and elections
  40. Business Briefing: what Australia can learn from a Polish economist
  41. Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
  42. Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event
  43. The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought
  44. Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?
  45. Why we're more likely to date someone who has an ex
  46. Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud
  47. Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay
  48. Senate report calls for disallowance of Brandis's direction to Solicitor-General
  49. Inquiry opens way for changing Section 18C and the Human Rights Commission too
  50. Politics podcast: Julian Leeser on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act

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