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Making developments green doesn’t help with inequality

  • Written by: Rupert Legg, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney

Around the world, new developments are increasingly framed as sustainable to both policymakers and prospective buyers. They are seen as a “win-win” for the environment and the economy. However, recent concerns suggest social inequality often results.

Barangaroo is one such green development on the harbourfront in Sydney, Australia. What...

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States and territories have improved integrity measures, but Commonwealth lags far behind

  • Written by: Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
States and territories have improved integrity measures, but Commonwealth lags far behindVoters want their governments – local, state, and federal – to clean up their act and put integrity reforms high on the agenda.AAP/Mick Tsikas

This week we’re exploring the state of nine different policy areas across Australia’s states, as detailed in Grattan Institute’s State Orange Book 2018. Read the other articles...

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New Caledonia's independence referendum, and how it could impact the region

  • Written by: Denise Fisher, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
New Caledonia's independence referendum, and how it could impact the regionThe referendum is part of an ongoing reconciliation process following violent protests by indigenous Kanak residents in the 1980s.Shutterstock

A historic independence vote is to be held on 4 November in the French territory of New Caledonia, our closest neighbour to the east from Brisbane.

The vote begins the final stage of a negotiated process that...

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Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure

  • Written by: Oscar Serrano, Doctor of Global Change, Edith Cowan University
Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasureNature's bank vault.Author provided

For more than 6,000 years, seagrass meadows in Australia’s coastal waters have been acting as security vaults for priceless cultural heritage.

They’ve locked away thousands of shipwrecks in conditions perfect for preserving the fragile, centuries-old timbers of early European and Asian explorers, and...

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  3. Anne Summers on #MeToo and women in politics
  4. Earth’s wilderness is vanishing, and just a handful of nations can save it
  5. Tick-tock – for healthy mums and kids, dad’s age counts
  6. Abolish stamp duty. The ACT shows the rest of us how to tax property
  7. how using everyday items for play benefits kids
  8. To tackle inequality, we must start in the labour market
  9. What are ‘decodable readers’ and do they work?
  10. Phubbing (phone snubbing) happens more in the bedroom than when socialising with friends
  11. Why are unions so unhappy? An economic explanation of the Change the Rules campaign
  12. After a deadly month for domestic violence, the message doesn't appear to be getting through
  13. Cricket Australia's culture problem is it still doesn't think fans are stakeholders in the game
  14. Ideas of home and ownership in Australia might explain the neglect of renters’ rights
  15. State governments can transform Australia’s energy policy from major fail to reliable success
  16. Your poo is (mostly) alive. Here's what's in it
  17. How new spinal injury treatments help some people to walk again
  18. What teeth can tell about the lives and environments of ancient humans and Neanderthals
  19. Facebook delivers traffic but no money for news media
  20. the protest songs of New Caledonia's independence referendum
  21. While I Was Waiting captures the tragedy of the Syrian civil war in Damascus
  22. what any country can and can't do in Antarctica, in the name of science
  23. Traditional culture may help Indigenous households manage money better
  24. Food fraud, the centuries-old problem that won't go away
  25. I have an exam tomorrow but don't feel prepared – what should I do?
  26. National interest test for research grants could further erode pure research
  27. which human uses are OK for protected areas?
  28. To make housing more affordable this is what state governments need to do
  29. If a star explodes, will it destroy Earth?
  30. We need better jury directions to ensure justice is done
  31. How Mirka and Georges Mora fled the Holocaust and created bohemia across the world
  32. 'Everybody Lies' author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on why we tell the (sometimes disturbing) truth online
  33. Russia is a rising military power in the Asia-Pacific, and Australia needs to take it seriously
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  36. How to watch a scary movie with your child
  37. Forget bouncing back, balance is the healthiest way to manage weight post-pregnancy
  38. No state has all the answers in school education
  39. Protecting the 'right to be forgotten' in the age of blockchain
  40. When you're not PM but behave like you are
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  42. Satirist Jonathan Biggins on sending up the pollies
  43. Labor is making big promises for a Pacific development bank, but questions remain
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  45. why Australia’s hospitals and health care is failing
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