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Leyonhjelm will look for another trade off for ABCC support if government won't play on gun

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

Malcolm Turnbull is like the man who threw down a match, started a fire, and is now struggling to breathe because of the smoke.

He has inadvertently become the centre of a debate on guns which is at least a diversion from what he wants to talk about and at worst has turned into a series of pressure points.

It started on Tuesday with Liberal Democrat...

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Race to the White House – opinion polls, Clinton's campaign, and the third debate

  • Written by: Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
imageNevada will play host to the third and final presidential debate.Reuters/Rick Wilking

This week on Race to the White House, Brendon O’Connor, Tom Switzer and Emma Lancaster are joined by Simon Jackman to track the history of public opinion polls and how they have come to shape the American political landscape.

Polls have been labelled the...

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Crown: the trials of a tributary state

  • Written by: Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
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Of all the indicators of Australia’s evolving relationship with China, Crown Casino’s current problems are some of the most striking, unexpected and revealing. They present an unflattering but painfully accurate vignette of this country’s increasingly dependent relationship with the People’s Republic.

We...

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APRA take the easy road out with risk culture

  • Written by: Pat McConnell, Honorary Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University

Just when we all thought that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) had already won the race to be most ineffective regulator of the year, up pops the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority with a late run for the flag.

This week, APRA has published an “information paper” on risk culture which is so banal that...

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