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Former ambassador to China to be new Foreign Affairs department head

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageFrances Adamson (left) pictured while Australian Ambassador to China in 2015. DFAT

Career diplomat Frances Adamson, presently international adviser to Malcolm Turnbull, will be the new secretary of the Foreign Affairs department.

She replaces Peter Varghese, who has already left the post, and will be the first woman to head the department.

Adamson,...

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Melania Trump's speech follows a long history of plagiarism in public life

  • Written by: Ian Freckelton QC, Professorial Fellow in Law and Psychiatry, University of Melbourne
imageMelania Trump allegedly plagiarised a speech given by Michelle Obama in 2008. STF/EPA

Melania Trump’s apparent plagiarism of the speech given by Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic Convention reminds us of the importance we continue to ascribe to originality and to authenticity in public life.

At the Republican Convention, Melania Trump said:...

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Queenslanders will soon see in real-time who's paying politicians – now Canberra must act

  • Written by: Colleen Lewis, Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University

At long last, Australia has a government that is prepared to introduce real-time disclosure for political donations. The Queensland government – and independent Speaker Peter Wellington, who has been crucial in pushing for the change – deserve praise for this long-awaited reform.

The significance of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s...

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Don’t poke the Bear: what could Russia do next about drugs in sport?

  • Written by: Jason Mazanov, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, UNSW-Canberra, UNSW Australia
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The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) release of Richard McLaren’s independent report on claims of systemic doping in Russia well and truly overshadows previous major sporting scandals such as the “Lance Bomb” (when Lance Armstrong’s doping was revealed) and the “blackest day in Australian sport” (when the...

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