Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh.Mick Tsikas/AAPMichelle Grattan discusses the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook with Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh, gauging his thoughts on the savings measures announced by the government and how Labor would address the issue of budget repair.
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Benedict Anderson gives a lecture, his last, on anarchism and nationalism at University of Indonesia. Thor Kerr, Author providedAn old fellow in brown sandals, grey slacks and a worn orange shirt stumbled by me as he missed a step at a packed auditorium at University of Indonesia last Thursday. From my aisle seat, I looked up from a mobile phone...
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Australia’s vocational education sector is a mess.
Tightening regulation and tweaking some of the settings will contain the damage, but these measures alone will not address deeper problems in the sector.
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For a long time, you might have defaulted to overseas suppliers when sourcing fabricated metal components for a project. The unit price was lower on paper, and the maths seemed straightforward. That...
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