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Public won't back a 'politicians' republic', so Turnbull needs to offer a better model

  • Written by: Gregory Melleuish, Associate Professor, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong
imageMalcolm Turnbull is now more circumspect when it comes to the matter of an Australian republic. AAP/Dan Himbrechts

The word republic has many meanings – but they can probably be reduced to two.

The first simply means a political order in which there is no king or queen at its apex. The Romans who invented the term res publica (public matter)...

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Blame game rages as Culleton quits Pauline Hanson's One Nation

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

Biting insults have been exchanged as Western Australian senator Rod Culleton splits from Pauline Hanson, ahead of the High Court determining whether he will be turfed from parliament.

Culleton accused Hanson of “public rants” against him; she said he had been “a pain in my backside”.

The break is not unexpected –...

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What is rumbling Australia's economy ahead of MYEFO

  • Written by: Remy Davison, Jean Monnet Chair in Politics and Economics, Monash University
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The Turnbull government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) takes place in a dramatically different environment from 2015-16.

The dual shocks of Brexit, and the promulgation of a protectionist Trump administration in 2017, present major challenges to the global economy. In late 2015, few predicted either of these scenarios...

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The global road-building explosion is shattering nature

  • Written by: Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
imageTimber stockpiled along a logging road.Day Edryshov/Shutterstock

If you asked a friend to name the worst human threat to nature, what would they say? Global warming? Overhunting? Habitat fragmentation?

A new study suggests it is in fact road-building.

“Road-building” might sound innocuous, like “house maintenance” – or...

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