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  • AUSTRALIA

    Waking up from the housing nightmare

    • Colin Long
    • 05 May 2008
    5 Comments

    It is not just Joe and Jo Suburbia that have a lot riding on real estate. Taking the heat out of house price inflation is extremely difficult, because the whole system is based on the expansion of credit and consumption that house price inflation allows.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Garnaut shows climate change bigger than politics

    • Charles Rue
    • 26 February 2008
    10 Comments

    The Garnaut Report underplays Australia's position as a wealthy country that can act now to safeguard its future. This month's bipartisan apology to the Stolen Generations has laid the ground for a multi-party agreement on the climate crisis.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Good politician

    • Tony Smith
    • 14 November 2007
    1 Comment

    Occasionally individuals manage to defy the negative stereotypes and demonstrate that being a Member of Parliament need not destroy one’s personal integrity. The late Peter Andren, federal member for Calare from 1996 to 2007, was just such an exceptional representative.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Economic boom's new generation poor

    • Stuart Braun
    • 30 October 2006
    1 Comment

    A decade of economic growth has been good for many Australians. The property market has boomed. Wages have spiralled. Equity markets continue to ride record highs. Ordinary Australians have grown rich—but others have missed out.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Hacking the parties

    • Terry Lane
    • 02 July 2006

    Terry Lane on The Andren Report.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Goodly profits

    • Gianni ZappalĂ 
    • 15 June 2006

    Gianni Zappalà examines the relationship between public policy and corporate citizenship.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Want to live to be 100?

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 12 June 2006
    1 Comment

    As researchers learn more and more about how organisms work, it’s becoming increasingly evident that our lifespan is programmed into us and can be reprogrammed.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Credit overdrawn

    • Jack Waterford
    • 31 May 2006

    Mark Latham is doing far better than anyone expected. No one had particular faith in him, but the signs, so far, are good.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A budget for the ages

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 14 May 2006

    Mixed signals lead one to wonder whether the Commonwealth is pulling back from shouldering its share of the cost of aged care.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    How far have you come, baby?

    • Sara Dowse
    • 14 May 2006

    Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A long way to go

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 11 May 2006

    Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The best that money can buy

    • Peter Yewers
    • 27 April 2006

    Sally Young’s The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising is an important book for those interested in political and social change, says Peter Yewers.

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