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Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)The funding proposal is no fix for Australia's health system but it could take some political pressure off the Coalition in the lead up to the 2019 federal election.OnE studio/Shutterstock

The A$1.25 billion Community Health and Hospitals Program Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced this week should be awarded a big policy fail.

The move sets...

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back to Moore River and finding family

  • Written by: Aileen Marwung Walsh, ARC Laureate Research Scholarship, Rediscovering Deep Human History, Australian National University
back to Moore River and finding familyChildren at Norseman Mission. The author's mum, Violet Newman is in the middle row on the far left.Image from the collection of Elsie Lambadgee (dec.)

Untangling the web that is the history of the stolen generations is a very satisfying process. In October, I went to the Centenary Memorial gathering at Mogumber, on the site of the Moore River...

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Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions

  • Written by: Sebastien Darchen, Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutionsAustralia's sprawling cities present many challenges to sustainability, but planning innovations can help achieve at least half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.Nils Versemann/Shutterstock

Thirty years after the landmark Brundtland report, the debate on urban sustainability continues. Urban planners are still grappling with the challenges of...

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No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia's 'asset recycling' misdirection

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia's 'asset recycling' misdirectionAsset recycling is a shell game, a way to get around government accounting rules.Shutterstock

Anyone who has been to La Guardia airport in New York can attest the dire need in the United States for infrastructure spending.

It’s not just crumbling bridges, pot-holed roads and lousy airports that provide the impetus for infrastructure spending....

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  4. Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas
  5. The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC
  6. In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom
  7. Why cutting Australia's migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade
  8. The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
  9. how to spot 2018's interplanetary bauble
  10. Government agrees to national anti-corruption body – with strict limits
  11. Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election
  12. The Conversation Stakeholder Report 2018
  13. Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?
  14. How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship
  15. We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead
  16. The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival
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  18. a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please
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  20. Australia's problem with Aboriginal World Heritage
  21. ABC and SBS are not distorting media market, government inquiry finds
  22. Anthony Albanese on Labor's road ahead
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  28. What the Victorian government's decision not to sign on to the Gonski reforms means for schools in the new year
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  32. Not wiped out. Why Whyalla, of all places, now has a sustainable future
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  34. Law and order is no get-out-of-jail card for floundering politicians
  35. Morrison government promises $1.25 billion for health care
  36. 'Designer' babies won't be common anytime soon – despite recent CRISPR twins
  37. Victorian upper house greatly distorted by group voting tickets; federal Labor still dominant in Newspoll
  38. why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
  39. ACCC wants to curb digital platform power – but enforcement is tricky
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