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Politics podcast: Tony Burke on Labor's fiscal challenge

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

In the first Politics Podcast for 2016, Michelle Grattan and Shadow Finance Minister Tony Burke discuss the challenging gap between government revenue and spending, and what Labor would do to address the problem.

Burke pitches Labor’s recent education announcements as being central to its economic vision, describing them as a “strategic...

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Queensland's patchy crocodile monitoring makes sustainable egg harvesting a risky venture

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

There is growing support for the harvesting of crocodile eggs in Queensland. After all, the Northern Territory (where Queensland crocodile-skin farmers currently buy most of their eggs) has upped its quota to 90,000 eggs per year, and the NT’s research studies have shown that egg harvesting has no measurable effect upon the local crocodile...

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