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We all have a role in protecting democracy's unwritten rules

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThe efficacy of our political conventions relies on a healthy respect in society for their role in regulating our governments.AAP

Australians might well be taken aback to discover how feebly many of the processes that constitute a robust democratic system are formally protected in this country. What safeguards them are conventions or informal norms...

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Janet Yellen's Goldilocks rate rise: lining up the politics and economics

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imageJanet Yellen's political mortgage has fallen due, but the economics makes sense too.Joshua Roberts/Reuters

On Thursday morning, the Federal Reserve is expected to announce its first increase in US interest rates for nearly a decade.

Since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bellwether “federal funds rate” has been kept at rock...

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You could be suffering from FoMO this Christmas

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageHe's tweeted, Instagrammed and Facebooked, but will he get what he wants?Shutterstock

The holiday season can be a traumatising time for many people, but spare a thought (or retweet) for those who strive to be a part of the cultural zeitgeist at the expense of all sanity and reason.

For these individuals, fear can be an incapacitating emotion caused...

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