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Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government money

  • Written by: Anthea Vogl, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government moneyThere are thousands in the Australian community who say they would sponsor a refugee's resettlement, but only if the program was reformed.from shutterstock.com

This week the Greens announced their refugee policy. It includes allowing private citizens to sponsor refugees as part of its plan to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake by...

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Why women in economics have little to celebrate

  • Written by: Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide
Why women in economics have little to celebrateWomen tend to get thrown into teaching rather than research, and tend to have their research overlooked.Shutterstock

International Women’s Day is a good time ask two critical questions about economics: do we have enough women in it, and does it matter?

Women are less likely to take it up than they used to be.

Twenty five years ago around half...

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Mark Latham in the upper house? A Coalition minority government? The NSW election is nearly upon us and it's going to be a wild ride

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling

We are but weeks away from an election in New South Wales – polling day is on March 23 – and it will be eagerly watched. Not just for the outcome but for the implications for the looming federal election.

That’s according to Dr Andy Marks, a political scientist from Western Sydney University, who tells us on the podcast today that...

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After years of vicious culture wars, hope may yet triumph over hate in Australian politics

  • Written by: Chris Wallace, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
After years of vicious culture wars, hope may yet triumph over hate in Australian politicsWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series here.

For a generation, politics has been wearying for those of good heart and outright...

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  3. #MeToo has changed the media landscape, but in Australia there is still much to be done
  4. Gender equity. The way things are going, we won't reach true parity until the 22nd century
  5. My CV is gender biased. Here's what I plan to do about it
  6. Australia needs a national plan to face the growing threat of climate disasters
  7. Women in STEM need your support – and Australia needs women in STEM
  8. No matter who wins the next election, managing the China relationship will be tricky – and vital
  9. do we need to worry about glyphosate in our beer and wine?
  10. the revival of strikes in New Zealand
  11. the old ones no longer fit once you move to the country
  12. rebooting the idea of 'civilisation' for Australian soil
  13. Josh Frydenberg has a great job at the worst time
  14. leading lessons from Manchester United's caretaker manager
  15. Remember Blockbuster, Nirvana and pagers? The new Captain Marvel lives in the 1990s
  16. Māori and Pasifika leaders report racism in government health advisory groups
  17. In Stephen Sewell's charming Arbus and West, feminism boils to the surface
  18. Acting on gender-based violence must be a priority for the next federal government
  19. The dingo is a true-blue, native Australian species
  20. Australia's sudden ultra-low economic growth ought not to have come as surprise
  21. Don’t ban Michael Jackson's music – talk about the accusations
  22. National Redress Scheme for child sexual abuse protects institutions at the expense of justice for survivors
  23. Introducing gender lens investing. It's more than pink-washing
  24. New Zealand’s proposed capital gains tax could nudge taxpayers to invest in art instead of property
  25. why do we actually need them and can they get it 'wrong'?
  26. What pill is that? Cheap and easy pill testing could soon be in your own hands
  27. Five gifs that explain how pumped hydro actually works
  28. What if we've had gender the wrong way around? What if, for workplace parity, we focused on men?
  29. Australia should start planning for universal tertiary education
  30. Hollywood may be able to afford #MeToo, but it’s a stretch for the Australian arts
  31. Future budgets are going to have to spend more on welfare, which is fine. It's spending on us
  32. Reality check. Having a woman on your board needn't make it diverse
  33. older women have their say about the challenges of life in a city like Melbourne
  34. Rising seas allow coastal wetlands to store more carbon
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  36. We need more than a website to stop Australians paying exorbitant out-of-pocket health costs
  37. Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that question
  38. startling theatre and a call to the dead to speak
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  40. The Heights - at last, a credible Australian working-class soap
  41. Marriage equality was momentous, but there is still much to do to progress LGBTI+ rights in Australia
  42. Addressing the crisis in arts criticism
  43. What the next government needs to do to tackle unfairness in school funding
  44. Media companies on notice over traumatised journalists after landmark court decision
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