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public housing tenants fight for their place in the city

  • Written by: Pratichi Chatterjee, PhD Student, Urban Geography, University of Sydney

After years of strong housing market growth, Sydney’s property market is slowing. Despite this, housing stress remains a reality for many Sydneysiders, with rents remaining largely untouched.

Public housing is a lifeline for those who can’t afford to rent in the private market, but the numbers of households in this position means many...

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Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the church

  • Written by: Dominic O'Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the churchElection winner, former coup leader, Josaia Voreq "Frank" Bainimarama, speaking at a climate change conference in Germany in November 2017.Ronald Wittek/EPA

Former coup leader Josaia Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama has won re-election in Fiji. But he did so in a country where press freedom is severely limited, and authoritarian rule is used...

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Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison's Jerusalem thought bubble

  • Written by: Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics, UNSW
Indonesia matters to us, and always has. Why the relationship will survive Morrison's Jerusalem thought bubbleIndonesia is an underappreciated market for Australian services.Shutterstock

All hell broke loose during the Wentworth by-election when Prime Minister Scott Morrison suddenly announced that he was thinking of moving of Australia’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The main objections came, not on merits of the idea itself, but on...

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Are short prime ministerships the new normal?

  • Written by: Benjamin T. Jones, Australian Research Council Fellow, School of History, Australian National University
Are short prime ministerships the new normal?Malcolm Turnbull was the latest prime minister to be ousted before the end of his term in August, 2018.AAP/Sam Mooy

This is an edited extract from Elections Matter: Ten Federal Elections that Shaped Australia (Monash University Press 2018), edited by Benjamin T. Jones, Frank Bongiorno and John Uhr.


In 2004, the Australian Labor Party, led by Mark...

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