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116,000 people were without a home on Census night
Open Forum | March 14, 2018More Australians are living on the streets, with 15% of recent migrants without a home to call their own. The homeless rate has increased 4.6% over the last five years, according to new data from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing.
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The left shouldn’t own the green agenda
James Alexander | March 14, 2018Although green issues are often seen as the province of the left, James Alexander argues that conservation and respect for the natural world should lay at the heart of true conservative values.
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The problem record immigration is supposed to solve doesn’t exist
William Bourke | March 14, 2018Population is “the everything issue”. It affects all aspects of public policy and our daily lives. It is essential to get population policy right if we are to achieve critical public policy outcomes like secure jobs, affordable housing, better planning and a sustainable environment.
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A crisis of trust – The rise of Australian protest politics
Danielle Wood | March 13, 2018Protest politics is on the rise in Australia, and the main cause is collapsing trust in politicians and the major parties, according to a new Grattan Institute report.
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Australia must lift the incomes of the bottom 40%
Cassandra Goldie | March 13, 2018Australia should pledge to improve the incomes of the less well off to meet its international development commitments.
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Will Australia choose growth or stagnation?
Andrew Pickford | March 12, 2018News that the United States grew by 2.6% in the last quarter of 2017 produced commentary which reflects two vastly different visions and outlooks for modern, Western economies.
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5 simple tips to help our kids cope and prosper
Don Tustin | March 12, 2018Psychologist Don Tustin says many of his adult clients would not be experiencing mental health issues now if they had learned better coping skills between the ages of four and eight.
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China’s accelerating quest for techno-military supremacy
Adam Ni | March 11, 2018Once installed as leader for life, Chinese President Xi Jinping will press forward with plans to eclipse the United States and assert regional, and perhaps in time global, dominance by building the world’s most powerful military force.
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Clean and secure power – A roadmap to a renewable future
Andrew Stock | March 10, 2018Time is running out for the climate as temperatures rise, the poles melt and weather patterns alter. Australia needs to act quickly and decisively by cutting greenhouse gas pollution from the electricity sector and a new plan from the Climate Council explains how it could be done.
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Why don’t environmental laws prevent deforestation?
Samantha Hepburn | March 10, 2018Despite its ‘green’ image, Australia has some of the worst rates of deforestation in the world, exacerbating climate change and the loss of biodiversity. We need better laws, and stronger enforcement, to protect our precious natural vegetation.
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Supermarkets must start to tackle obesity
Open Forum | March 10, 2018Australian supermarkets must take more responsibility for their role in driving Australia’s worsening rates of obesity, according to a new study ranking the nutrition policies of Australia’s biggest food chains.
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Do we even need Snowy II?
Peter Farley | March 9, 2018Victorian engineer Peter Farley crunches the numbers to show the proposed Snowy II hydro-power scheme would be surplus to requirements, given the growth in distributed storage capacity and alternative sources of generation.
