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Victorian budget splash raises questions about privatisation

  • Written by: David Hayward, Professor of Public Policy and Acting Director, VCOSS-RMIT Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University

Treasurer Tim Pallas brought down the Victorian budget yesterday, with a surprising list of new spending announcements. The increased spend is possible because of a big increase in the level of privatisation activity, in the form of either Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) or asset recycling initiatives.

The latter has become quite popular these...

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The future of Australian coal: an unbankable deposit

  • Written by: David Holmes, Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
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The news last week that Australia’s oldest bank, Westpac, has withdrawn from any prospect of financing Adani’s Carmichael coal mine may well be the death knell for the controversial project.

Westpac is the last of the big four Australian banks to have ruled out investing in Adani. ANZ declared its move away from mining in...

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Gonski 2.0: Is this the school funding plan we have been looking for? Finally, yes

  • Written by: Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageCatholic schools and over-funded schools will lose out the most.from shutterstock.com

They used to say that a week is a long time in politics. How last century! Now a day is a long time in politics, or at least the politics of school funding.

Just yesterday morning, I was arguing that school funding was at an impasse. By early afternoon that had...

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Found with cocaine in Colombia, we should presume Cassandra Sainsbury's innocence

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
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Twenty-two-year-old Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury was arrested on April 11 at El Dorado airport in Bogota, Colombia. Sainsbury was due to return to Australia via London. Her suitcase contained 5.8kg of cocaine.

She is now being held in El Buen Pastor women’s prison in Bogota, where conditions are reportedly heavily overcrowded,...

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