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Private collectors are saving Australian art, but they can't do it on their own

  • Written by: Julie Shiels, Lecturer - School of Art, RMIT University
Private collectors are saving Australian art, but they can't do it on their own‘The shape of things to come’, installation view at Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne, March 2018.Photograph by Christian Capurro.

Within the year, Melbourne will have two new contemporary art spaces. Buxton Contemporary opened in early March and the new wing of Lyon Housemuseum will launch in 2019.

These are just two of...

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The pro-coal 'Monash Forum' may do little but blacken the name of a revered Australian

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

The coal industry has a new voice in parliament, in the form of the so-called Monash Forum – an informal government faction featuring former prime minister Tony Abbott and backbench energy committee chair Craig Kelly.

The group, which also reportedly contains former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce alongside as many as 11 of his Nationals...

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Why prosecutions for welfare fraud have declined in Australia

  • Written by: Scarlet Wilcock, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Wollongong
Why prosecutions for welfare fraud have declined in Australia

Between 2009-10 and 2016-17, the number of social security fraud prosecutions in Australia fell by 80% as a proportion of Centrelink’s customer base. This is remarkable considering national dialogue continues to focus on punitive approaches to welfare fraud. The Department of Human Services, which absorbed Centrelink in 2011, has even...

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Courting co-owners to buy a house online may be riskier than it looks

  • Written by: Garrick Small, Associate Professor, CQUniversity Australia

Digital platforms are offering people who couldn’t afford a house on their own, the opportunity to divvy up the costs with others. But co-ownership of real estate can be a risky and potentially costly business.

In an environment of high residential prices where families are becoming a smaller proportion of households, and permanent...

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