Keywords: Federal Politics
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MEDIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 September 2020
10 Comments
The strange thing is that those chest-beating about terrorism rarely made an issue of when terrorists of the modernist Islamist variety (such as al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and ISIL) attacked mosques, Muslim shrines and Muslim congregations. Nor do they report of just how fringe and hated these groups are in their own countries where the bulk of their attacks take place.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Various
- 18 September 2020
3 Comments
The pandemic has afforded us a preview of how a crisis plays out when the science is not properly heeded. The overwhelming majority of climate scientists have long been sounding the alarm that the health and safety of large parts of the population are at serious risk, both here and around the world. We are already seeing the damage to health and to the environment that they predicted.
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AUSTRALIA
- Izabella Antoniou
- 03 September 2020
11 Comments
Beyond the announcement of the corona supplement falling from $550 to $250 a fortnight in September, and the reintroduction of asset testing, there has been little in the way of a roadmap for our nation’s unemployed in a landscape where job seekers outnumber jobs 13:1.
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AUSTRALIA
- Cristy Clark
- 27 August 2020
13 Comments
If you are feeling disengaged and cynical about our political system, it turns out that you are in the majority. And that is concerning.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 16 July 2020
11 Comments
Government attitudes towards universities, the humanities and the arts, are often a strange mixture of ignorance, blindness and misplaced priorities. It is almost as if their graduates fail to match the image of what the government would prefer Australians to be.
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ECONOMICS
- Nicola Heath
- 30 June 2020
2 Comments
It turns out that the COVID-19 economic crisis is disproportionately affecting women — so much so that some have dubbed it a ‘pink-collar recession’. Unemployment figures show that since February, 457,517 women have lost their jobs compared to 380,737 men.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jennifer Zeven
- 22 May 2020
13 Comments
I spent the first six or seven years of my life spellbound by my mum’s stories of her childhood in Far North Queensland. Herstory came from warm, outback and subtropical places. She and her sisters wrote on slates at school, played in custard apple trees, kept their own bees.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 20 May 2020
8 Comments
Politics in the best sense is returning to normal. To do so it first needs the federal parliament, which should not have been filleted in the first place, to be fully functioning. More will then follow.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Alana Schetzer
- 19 May 2020
3 Comments
Multiple media reports have focused on individuals and households moving away from sustainability — mostly because of understandable concerns about contamination — and yet, the conversation about the impacts of our biggest businesses and corporations hasn’t been as loud.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Bree Alexander
- 11 May 2020
3 Comments
While the federal government has set a zero net emissions target by 2050, along with the states and territories and local councils in some areas, the steps that are taken to get there are vitally important. Yet there seems to be no signs of a rapid move away from fossil fuels.
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AUSTRALIA
- Justin Glyn
- 20 April 2020
7 Comments
The question remains, however, is there a straight binary trade-off between granting the state power (to organise lock-downs, track its populace and coerce the people) and keeping its people safe?
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 10 April 2020
25 Comments
Already the ideological die-hards of neoliberalism are working out how the pandemic might be manipulated to lower wages and to snap back to the old economic normal. So now is when collectively we need to take over the framing and the forming of the future. Not to snap back but to spring forward.
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