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The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University

The federal government has announced it will establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. This new commission will be the peak body to detect and investigate corrupt and criminal behaviour by Commonwealth employees.

This announcement followed mounting pressure from Labor, the Greens and independent MPs, who argued that a national integrity...

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In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom

  • Written by: Anja Hilkemeijer, Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania
In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedomThe government will establish a religious freedom commissioner and push for a Religious Discrimination Act.AAP/Dan Himbrechts

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Christian Porter have released both the Ruddock Religious Freedom Review and the government’s response. Given the panel’s recommendations were leaked to the...

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Why cutting Australia's migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade

  • Written by: Peter McDonald, Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne
Why cutting Australia's migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decadeIt's easy to blame congestion on immigrants. But it's really jobs that do it. People flock to where the jobs are, whether they are immigrants or not.Shutterstock

Australia’s population is among the fastest growing in the OECD with an increase of 1.7 per cent in 2016-17.

In Sydney and Melbourne traffic congestion has become so intolerable many...

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The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future

  • Written by: Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better futureThe typical suburban backyard of the future?Retrosuburbia.com (with permission)

Suburban affluence is the defining image of the good life under capitalism, commonly held up as a model to which all humanity should aspire.

More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Yet with the global economy already in gross ecological...

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  1. how to spot 2018's interplanetary bauble
  2. Government agrees to national anti-corruption body – with strict limits
  3. Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election
  4. The Conversation Stakeholder Report 2018
  5. Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?
  6. How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship
  7. We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead
  8. The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival
  9. Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars
  10. a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please
  11. Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains
  12. Australia's problem with Aboriginal World Heritage
  13. ABC and SBS are not distorting media market, government inquiry finds
  14. Anthony Albanese on Labor's road ahead
  15. Three things high school graduates should keep in mind when they have their ATARs
  16. Ten essential reads to catch up on Australian Space Agency news
  17. Your drinking water could be saltier than you think (even if you live in a capital)
  18. Time Magazine's Person of the Year recognises the global assault on journalism
  19. An opt-out system isn't the solution to Australia's low rate of organ donation
  20. What the Victorian government's decision not to sign on to the Gonski reforms means for schools in the new year
  21. Alex Seton's stark, moving protest sculptures carved from marble
  22. How does the Moon, being so far away, affect the tides on Earth?
  23. How cinema's new Aquaman draws on the mythology of ancient sea gods
  24. Not wiped out. Why Whyalla, of all places, now has a sustainable future
  25. What's the most value for money way to tackle obesity? Increase taxes on alcohol
  26. Law and order is no get-out-of-jail card for floundering politicians
  27. Morrison government promises $1.25 billion for health care
  28. 'Designer' babies won't be common anytime soon – despite recent CRISPR twins
  29. Victorian upper house greatly distorted by group voting tickets; federal Labor still dominant in Newspoll
  30. why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
  31. ACCC wants to curb digital platform power – but enforcement is tricky
  32. Will the new Mary Poppins film acknowledge the suffragettes' success?
  33. How much physical activity should teenagers do, and how can they get enough?
  34. The off-topic Conversation #171
  35. ADHD prescriptions are going up, but that doesn't mean we're over-medicating
  36. Huawei executive's arrest will further test an already shaky US-China relationship
  37. Digital platforms. Why the ACCC's proposals for Google and Facebook matter big time
  38. How physical activity in Australian schools can help prevent depression in young people
  39. Cities can grow without wrecking reefs and oceans. Here's how
  40. Recovered Aboriginal songs offer clues to 19th century mystery of the shipwrecked 'white woman'
  41. As Indigenous incarceration rates keep rising, justice reinvestment offers a solution
  42. Australia is still listening to Voyager 2 as NASA confirms the probe is now in interstellar space
  43. did more people buy their seventh home than bought their first home last year?
  44. How low will Bitcoin now go? The history of price bubbles provides some clues
  45. Going travelling? Don't forget insurance (and to read the fine print)
  46. Where do dreams come from?
  47. should I lie to my children about Santa?
  48. Grey nomad lifestyle provides a model for living remotely
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