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Digital disruption: STEM graduates and more regulation not the answer

  • Written by: Jim Minifie, Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageThe Productivity Commission report is not a comprehensive plan of what government should do about digital disruption.www.shutterstock.com

A complacent government could easily adopt a wait-and-see approach when it comes to the effects of technology on our economy, but a report from the Productivity Commission advocates what governments need to do to...

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Victoria's renewables target joins an impressive shift towards clean energy

  • Written by: Dylan McConnell, Research Fellow, Melbourne Energy Institute, University of Melbourne
imageVictoria has joined three other states and territories in setting a renewable energy target. Wind energy from www.shutterstock.com

The Victorian Labor government has announced an “ambitious and achievable” Victorian Renewable Energy Target (VRET). This target will commit the state to generating 25% of its electricity from renewable...

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Fattened pigs, dog whistles and dead cats: the menagerie of a Lynton Crosby campaign

  • Written by: Will Dinan, Lecturer, Communications, Media and Culture, University of Stirling
imageCampaign strategist Lynton Crosby has become something of a folk-devil for sections of the British and Australian media.Reuters/Stefan Wermuth

Is Lynton Crosby, election guru and favoured strategist for right-wing political candidates from Wentworth to Witney, up to his old tricks again?

As the Australian election race enters its final stages, and...

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