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If you want to boost the economy, big infrastructure projects won't cut it: new Treasury boss

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy – in the job for for just weeks after moving across from the department of infrastructure last month – has dismissed talk of spending big on infrastructure in order to escape an economic downturn.

Such calls “sound straightforward, but in practice are difficult to achieve”, he told a Senate...

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Politicians must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies

  • Written by: Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
Politicians must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companiesBHP has voted to stay in the Minerals Council of Australia.Environmental Change and Security Program/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

It’s time we started talking about the principal opponents to action on climate change – fossil fuel industries. If history has taught us anything, it is when oil, gas and coal industries oppose policies to reduce...

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'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'

  • Written by: Jodie Grigg, Research Associate at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'No drug is 100% safe. Wes Mountain

My friends are taking ecstasy at raves and music festivals. Is it safe? — Anonymous

Key points

  • no drug use, including ecstasy, is 100% safe
  • festivals can present unique risks
  • look out for friends, know the risks and where to get help.

'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'

What is ecstasy or MDMA?

Ecstasy is a slang term for drugs meant to contain...

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new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilities

  • Written by: Chloe Watfern, Scientia PhD scholar, UNSW
new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilitiesArtists at work.Studio A.

At Studio A, on the fourth floor of the Crows Nest community centre, a group of artists is working quietly.

An occasional burst of laughter erupts from a corner of the studio. It makes its way around the room, past sculptures and paintings and drawings in various degrees of completion, past beads and thread and wool and...

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