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The restorationist impulse: why we hanker for the old ways

  • Written by: Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
imageSurely, things were easier in the past.shutterstock

This piece is republished with permission from Perils of Populism, the 57th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, presenting an in-depth analysis on the rise of populism across the world.


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Saving Sirius: why heritage protection should include social housing

  • Written by: Chris Martin, Research Fellow, City Housing, UNSW

Campaigners to save Sydney’s landmark Sirius building from demolition had a significant legal win this week.

Last year, the then state heritage minister, Mark Speakman, refused to list the Brutalist block of public housing apartments on the New South Wales Heritage Register. Doing so would reduce the amount that the government, as its owner,...

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Friday essay: tall ships, tall tales, and the mysteries of Eugenia Falleni

  • Written by: Pip Smith, Tutor, Australian literature, Western Sydney University
imageEugenia Falleni in 1920. An Italian-born-woman-turned-Sydney-dwelling-man, Falleni was convicted of murder in 1920.Wikimedia

I’m an unlikely sailor of tall ships. Too clumsy, too prone to motion sickness, too white and nervous about symbols of colonisation. Nevertheless, in 2013 I found myself up the mast in the middle of the Tasman sea,...

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Paying CEOs with stock options doesn't drive their business strategy: research

  • Written by: Sigitas Karpavicius, Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Adelaide

The CEO pay of the United States’ biggest corporations is seen as the world benchmark. A large part of the way these executives are remunerated is through receiving stock options in the company they direct.

However our research shows that compensating executives in this way doesn’t necessarily lead to a higher payout of dividends to...

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