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From insider lobbying to grassroots campaigns; the Australian Conservation Foundation's strategy shift is paying off

  • Written by Justine Bell-James, Lecturer in Law, The University of Queensland

We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. This series shines a light on the strategies, political alignment and policy platforms of ten lobby groups that can influence this election.

Formed in the mid-1960s, the Australian...

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India is hedging its bets on coal to bring power to the people

  • Written by Tapan Sarker, Senior Lecturer, Department of International Business & Asian Studies, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
imageIndia is the world's third-largest coal producer, but also the second-largest importerCoal image from www.shutterstock.com

As the world moves to combat climate change, it’s increasingly doubtful that coal will continue to be a viable energy source, because of its high greenhouse gas emissions. But coal played a vital role in the Industrial...

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How the two major parties shape up on debate around student loan reform

  • Written by Andrew Norton, Program Director, Higher Education, Grattan Institute
imageBoth major parties support lowering the repayment threshold for student loans. from www.shutterstock.com

Whichever party wins the 2 July election, changes to the Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP) scheme are on their way.

Both parties support lowering the threshold for starting repayment, although by different amounts. Both would abolish HELP...

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  1. Explainer: How to find an exoplanet (part 2)
  2. Apple emphasises social responsibility and new features but is superficial on both
  3. Me Before You Before Fiction
  4. Treaty talk is only one problem for Indigenous recognition referendum
  5. #ausvotes 2016: some early impressions
  6. Microsoft sees integration opportunities in LinkedIn purchase – but will users care?
  7. Is nicotine really as safe as e-cigarette supporters make out?
  8. The off-topic Conversation #97
  9. Trollied: serves you (just) right
  10. Climate change makes a comeback – with the help of social media
  11. Labor's NBN plan shows it listened to critics of the current broadband rollout
  12. On asylum seekers, our history keeps repeating itself
  13. Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
  14. Dark Mofo and the affective power of a creative storm
  15. The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful
  16. Queensland's 50-year vision for its southeast must take heed of all region's future needs
  17. Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?
  18. State of the states: 19 reasons why Turnbull and Shorten keep flying to Queensland
  19. State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats
  20. New style lobbying: how GetUp! channels Australians' voices into politics
  21. Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right
  22. Paralysed with fear: why do we freeze when frightened?
  23. Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?
  24. Woolworths and Coles should heed simplicity lesson from Aldi
  25. Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields
  26. How citizen scientists discovered a giant cluster of galaxies
  27. OECD figures are not what they seem in higher education
  28. The Indi Project: Soft voters say Turnbull better leader to handle a Trump presidency
  29. How do Labor and the Coalition differ on NBN policy?
  30. Full response from a Labor spokesman
  31. Dopey and grumpy: Maria Sharapova and WADA
  32. Health Check: how much salt is OK to eat?
  33. Election explainer: how are lower house votes counted? And what is 'the swing'?
  34. Business is waking up to the idea of deep learning
  35. Why are so few professional sport coaches from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?
  36. Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent?
  37. Turnbull's election to lose
  38. Resettling refugees in Australia would not resume the people-smuggling trade
  39. Chemical messengers: how hormones change through menopause
  40. The hidden energy cost of smart homes
  41. Insider trading is greedy, not glamorous, and it hurts us all
  42. Venice Biennale: an exhausting, beautiful attempt to relinquish architecture
  43. Ancient asteroid impacts yield evidence for the nature of the early Earth
  44. Genes can have up to 80% influence on students' academic performance
  45. Labor would upgrade NBN to fibre-to-the-premises
  46. Xenophon threatens massive retaliation against any Lib-Lab deal against him
  47. ALP uses Bob Hawke to boost its campaigning on health
  48. Signals from the noise of urban innovation in the world's 'second-least-liveable' city
  49. Bill Shorten's savings package looks a little desperate
  50. Labor searches for savings amid family benefits reform
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