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Australia needs to lead again on democratic innovation

  • Written by: Mark Triffitt, Lecturer, Public Policy and Politics, University of Melbourne
imageThe imperative for major reform of Australia’s political and policy processes is more real and urgent than ever.AAP/Lukas Coch

A week has always been a long time in politics, but now it is longer than ever. In a world of increasingly truncated media cycles, short-term politics and fragmented parliaments, the political world is being...

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Feral animals are running amok on Australia's islands – here's how to stop them

  • Written by: Chris Wilcox, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
imageAustralia's island wildlife is particularly vulnerable to invasive species. Roderick Eime/Flickr, CC BY

Australia has some 8,300 islands, many of them home to threatened species. But humans have introduced rodents and predators such as feral cats and foxes to many of these islands, devastating native wildlife and changing entire island ecosystems....

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Vital Signs: Jackson Hole could deliver the monetary change Xenophon wants

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Australia

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: The US Fed’s annual meeting will signal interest rates, and ultimately the path of the Aussie...

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Di Natale takes Hanson-Young out of asylum seeker area

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

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young – a loud voice on asylum-seeker issues - has lost a battle with her leader, Richard Di Natale, to keep her immigration portfolio in the Greens reshuffle.

Hanson-Young said in a statement that she had “fought hard” to retain the post but ultimately it was a decision of the leader.

It is understood Di...

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