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We should all beware a resurgent financial sector

  • Written by: Usman W. Chohan, Doctoral Candidate, Policy Reform and Economics, UNSW Australia
imageMarkets are useful to a certain point.Shutterstock.com

Around the world, the financial sector is resurgent and is concocting new financial instruments and markets in which to trade them. In Australia the market for some financial securities has quintupled in only a year, encouraged by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA).

This is...

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Latest Murray-Darling squabble sheds light on the plan's flaws

  • Written by: Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia
imageThe Murray-Darling is a complex freshwater ecosystem. Murray River wetlands image from www.shutterstock.com

Tempers have flared once again over the long-term plan to return water to the Murray-Darling River and improve its health.

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has released its report into the northern basin (in Queensland and New South Wales)....

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Neither the ABC nor SBS have anything to fear from community forums

  • Written by: Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Some have questioned senator David Leyonhjelm’s demand that in return for his support on the government’s bill to restore the Australian Building and Construction Commission, the public service media organisations ABC and SBS be required to hold regular community forums. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young described it as...

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  2. How 'Alfred' the whale lost its teeth to become a giant filter feeder
  3. Medicare logo case shows the urgent need to update Australia's IP laws
  4. Will the latest electricity review bring climate and energy policy together at last?
  5. As Australian shipping grows, how can we avoid collisions with marine animals?
  6. Women don't always get what they want from labiaplasty
  7. In a win for consumers, ACCC rules against the banks' actions against Apple Pay
  8. Turnbull's water gesture satisfies Xenophon
  9. ACCC rejects the banks colluding to bargain on Apple Pay
  10. Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science
  11. New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis
  12. Paleopups and paleopussies: is a paleodiet for your pet a step too far?
  13. Ipsos: are the Greens really at 16%?
  14. From the Gold Coast to Geelong: how cities are shaping visions of their futures
  15. How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
  16. What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
  17. A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court
  18. It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'
  19. Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
  20. Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
  21. Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument
  22. Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
  23. Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it
  24. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
  25. 'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone
  26. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  27. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  28. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
  29. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  30. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  31. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  32. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
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  34. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
  35. Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
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  37. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  38. Comments on mobile
  39. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  40. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  41. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  42. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  43. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  44. Why music is not lost
  45. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  46. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  47. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  48. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
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