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Scott Morrison talks up the budget 'plan' but will cynical public trust it?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

“Are you nervous?” journalist Laurie Oakes asked Scott Morrison two days before the treasurer brings down his first budget. Morrison didn’t answer that but he has every reason to be anxious.

As he keep saying, this is not a typical budget. “It is a budget that has to be responsible and focused on the economic plan that the...

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And honest too ... Merry Wives in Melbourne

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageFalstaff Wooing Mistress Ford

I wasn’t 100% sure how I felt when my wife announced she thought we should see a Shakespeare on the one night we’d had without our toddler for I don’t know exactly how long. Moreover, it was a play I wasn’t overly familiar with, except at second-hand: the now-little-performed Merry Wives of...

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The Productivity Commission intellectual property report: moderate and measured

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

The recently released Productivity Commission report on the Australian intellectual property system is thorough and measured. Its recommendations are far from radical but if implemented would improve the environment for the creation and use of knowledge-based products in Australia. Currently, too many parts of the intellectual property system...

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