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Why did energy regulators deliberately turn out the lights in South Australia?

  • Written by: Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
imageHigh gas prices have left Adelaide's Pelican Point power station running at less than half its capacity.Peripitus/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Last Wednesday evening, shortly after 6pm local time, around 90,000 homes and businesses in South Australia were deliberately disconnected from the electricity grid for up to an hour. In what is becoming a...

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New deal on torture a step in the right direction for Australia's human rights law

  • Written by: Fiona McGaughey, Lecturer, University of Western Australia

Attorney-General George Brandis and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop have announced that Australia will implement the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT).

This ratification has been a long time coming. Australia signed OPCAT in 2009. Despite consistent...

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Abbott hasn't convinced own electors on Senate curb

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Former prime minister Tony Abbott’s proposal for a constitutional change to make it easier for a government to pass legislation blocked by the Senate does not have support in his own electorate, according to polling.

Abbott this year re-raised a proposal from John Howard’s day that would allow bills rejected twice by the Senate, with a...

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South Australia's gambling tax highlights the regulatory mess of online betting

  • Written by: Charles Livingstone, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
imageWilliam Hill is among the online bookies to be registered in the Northern Territory, where the tax and regulatory environment is more favourable.AAP/Lukas Coch

The South Australian government will introduce from July a “point-of-consumption tax” to claw back some of the gambling tax revenue it is seeing disappear over the border.

The...

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