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Read it and weep: the book trade needs more than parallel import restrictions

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThe issue of parallel imports will not go away – but there are other options to explore. Mustafa Sayed

The Australian book trade has a long history of tension between books produced at home and books imported from overseas. But our contemporary age may be the first in which parallel importation is undertaken not by booksellers in competition...

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Coal could still kill us

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imageReuters/Damir Sagolj

Was it Confucius who said it’s a funny old world? If he didn’t he might well do so now. Having spent part of the last couple of weeks trying to breathe in Beijing, one can’t help but be struck by the remarkable contradictions – as the Marxists used to say – that characterise global politics these...

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