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Government reaches out to Catholics on Gonski 2.0

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe government is making frantic efforts to seal a deal on its school plan before parliament adjourns for the winter break.Rob Blakers/AAP

The government is offering concessions to try to mollify the Catholic sector, as its epic battle to land its Gonski 2.0 schools package continued on Tuesday.

In other developments during a day of frantic...

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Labor takes a political risk and opposes government's tougher citizenship legislation

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePeter Dutton says changes to citizenship legislation are a modernisation that would bring Australia in line with other countries.Lukas Coch/AAP

The government has finally found an issue it can cast in terms of “national security” on which it can get a fight with Labor.

Bill Shorten usually sticks leech-like to bipartisanship on anything...

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Land clearing on the rise as legal 'thinning' proves far from clear-cut

  • Written by: April Reside, Researcher, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
imageA 'thinned' landscape, which provides far from ideal habitat for many species.Author provided

Land clearing is accelerating across eastern Australia, despite our new research providing a clear warning of its impacts on the Great Barrier Reef, regional and global climate, and threatened native wildlife.

Policies in place to control land clearing...

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How the corporate veil is motivating misbehaviour and obscuring who should take the blame

  • Written by: Michael Quilter, Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance, Macquarie University

Company structures with layers on layers are commonplace in the corporate world, just like those of Plutus Payroll Australia, currently under investigation. But in some cases these structures aim to muddy responsibility.

Companies are abstractions, artificial, they are legal individuals but not humans. The corporate veil – the way these...

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