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Labor's boost to the arts is welcome but our political climate does not take culture seriously

  • Written by: Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne

Labor launched its arts policy in Melbourne on Saturday. The new policy document is called “Renewing Creative Australia”, paying homage to Labor’s two previous cultural policy documents; “Creative Nation” in 1994 and “Creative Australia” in 2013.

The policy includes a commitment to restore funding taken by...

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The next government can usher in our fourth decade recession-free, but it will be dicey

  • Written by: Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney
The next government can usher in our fourth decade recession-free, but it will be diceyWe can't rely on consumer spending to keep us recession-free.Shutterstock

If we can avoid a recession for another two years, then on July 1, 2021 Australia will have recorded a record 30 years of economic expansion. We will be entering our fourth decade recession-free.

That’s the expectation embedded in the Reserve Bank’s latest set of...

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The brutal truth on housing. Someone has to lose in order for first homebuyers to win

  • Written by: Brendan Coates, Fellow, Grattan Institute
The brutal truth on housing. Someone has to lose in order for first homebuyers to winOne set of policies acknowledges reality.Shutterstock

On housing, the contrast between the two major parties on housing couldn’t be clearer.

The Coalition is still pretending that you can help first homebuyers without hurting anyone. Labor isn’t.

This matters, because Australian governments have been pretending for decades that there are...

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  4. Racism alleged as Indigenous children taken from families
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  6. 'Soft' voters in Warringah focus groups expect Tony Abbott win
  7. In Cloudstreet, nostalgia all too easily redeems Australia's colonial past
  8. Drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight would be disastrous for marine life and the local community
  9. should we be worried that the chemicals from sunscreen can get into our blood?
  10. Australia's in the Fungus Olympics, the race to find new ways to tackle disease
  11. Facebook's Mia Garlick on #Ausvotes2019 and how Australian MPs use social media
  12. That election promise. It will help first home buyers, but they better be cautious
  13. Stakes are high as US ups the ante on trade dispute with China
  14. Curious Kids: can snails fart?
  15. Against the odds, Scott Morrison wants to be returned as prime minister. But who the bloody hell is he?
  16. After six years as opposition leader, history beckons Bill Shorten. Will the 'drover's dog' have its day?
  17. Mounting evidence the tide is turning on News Corp, and its owner
  18. A referendum won't save the Murray-Darling Basin
  19. Australia’s major parties' climate policies side-by-side
  20. who's the better economic manager?
  21. writing trauma in Cynthia Banham's A Certain Light
  22. Nearly 1 in 4 of us aren't native English speakers. In a health-care setting, interpreters are essential
  23. Avoid the politics and let artificial intelligence decide your vote in the next election
  24. Crowded trains? Planning focus on cars misses new apartment impacts
  25. Shorten's ratings rise as Labor holds its lead in Newspoll
  26. View from The Hill: Quick on the draw
  27. Labor's costings broadly check out. The days of black holes are behind us, thankfully
  28. Tony Costa wins the 2019 Archibald Prize
  29. New laws in Western Australia will help victims of family violence end their tenancies
  30. How I stumbled on a lost plant just north of Antarctica
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  32. can your employer sack you for what you say or do in your own time?
  33. do 86% of people visit the doctor for free?
  34. Focus groups suggest Wentworth is embracing Phelps, but Sharma helped by fear of Labor
  35. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Shorten's campaign moment
  36. Children are our future, and the planet's. Here's how you can teach them to take care of it
  37. Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?
  38. We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis
  39. will Whelan disendorsement make a difference in Tasmania?
  40. More First Nations people in parliament matters. Here’s why.
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  42. Giving workers a voice in the boardroom is a compelling corporate governance reform
  43. Ancient Rome inspired Washington but its legacy of being open to all has fallen into oblivion
  44. Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality
  45. Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
  46. When it came to the surplus, both Bill and Scott were having a lend
  47. A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?
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