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Intelligence agencies to be scrutinised

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Malcolm Turnbull has announced an expert panel to undertake a broad review of Australia’s intelligence agencies over the next few months.

The inquiry will be done by Professor Michael L'Estrange, a former secretary of the foreign affairs department, who served on the staff of the second Hope royal commission into security and intelligence...

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How Jakarta's first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups

  • Written by: Noor Huda Ismail, PhD Candidate in Politics and International Relations, Monash University

Jakarta saw its biggest protest in years on Friday, prompting president Joko Widodo to cancel his planned visit to Australia.

Some Western media report that the rally of some 200,000 people marching in protest against the Chinese-Christian Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, was a “show of strength” and a...

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Hanson backs sending her senator to the High Court

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Pauline Hanson has backed the referral of her Western Australian senator Rod Culleton to the High Court to determine his eligibility to sit in parliament, declaring it a matter of integrity.

For his part Culleton, who last week suggested he might not vote while his fate is being determined, has now said he will vote.

He said the Senate clerk had...

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Community organisations lack the funding and data to measure their impact

  • Written by: Paul Flatau, Director, Centre for Social Impact, UWA Business School, University of Western Australia

Community organisations are struggling to measure the impact they are having due to a lack of funds and data availability, new research has found. It shows three quarters of community sector charities are trying to measure their outcomes and have increased this effort in the last five years.

However many are held back. Out of our survey...

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