Search results for "beyond federation"
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Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Alexei Navalny – The fight for humanity
Mark Nicol | February 1, 2021Protests against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny are growing in Russia, but the movement for democracy needs the support of both Russians and the West to face down the brutal dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.
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Timtams, wine, and whisky
Conor McLaughlin | December 20, 2020Trade deals have become the single most important issue for a post-Brexit UK. As Australia is experiencing its own trade tensions, the time is ripe for an Australia-UK trade deal to become a reality.
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Optimising Australia’s COVID-19 border policy
Stewart Nixon | September 14, 2020COVID-19 has divided Australia in a manner unprecedented since federation, with the closure of once arbitrary state borders becoming geographical and political fault lines. But Australia’s less-debated international border measures also call for greater scrutiny.
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Democracy has been a victim of COVID-19
Tom Gerald Daly | June 11, 2020COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on democracy worldwide, but some democracies are more resilient than others.
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8 adventures in “coronomics”
Tim Harcourt | April 20, 2020If the 1991 recession is the ‘recession we had to have’ then 2020 is the business slowdown we had to engineer to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, but what will be some of its economic ramifications in Australia and the rest of the world?
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Australia’s response to the Spanish flu tolls a warning for today
Frank Bongiorno | March 25, 2020Australian states are finally enforcing social isolation, as they did a hundred years ago against Spanish Flu, but the worst is yet to come. Neither should restrictions be lifted too quickly, as many Australians were killed by a second wave of Spanish Flu in the autumn of 1919.
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Australia’s long history of Asian engagement
Tim Harcourt | February 23, 2020The need to engage with Asia has been a major issue of 21st century Australian politics, but the roots of this debate go much deeper into Australia’s past and have been shaped by a succession of prime ministers from all parties.
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How bad is breathing bushfire smoke?
Robyn Langham | January 16, 2020Once the smoke clears, and the immediate issues of infrastructure, jobs and lives are being rebuilt – there will be ongoing questions about the health impacts of urban populations breathing air heavy with bushfire smoke for weeks on end.
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This disappointing century
Craig Wallace | January 8, 2020As 2019 came to a devastating close amidst the flames of a national bushfire crisis, there is cause to reflect not on the last decade but the dreary embers of the first two of the 21st Century.
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Can eSports find a role in schools?
Neil Selwyn | September 21, 2019Given the massive youth appeal of eSports, schools and colleges are understandably beginning to explore possible connections between eSports and education.
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A woody meadow blooms in the heart of the city
Claire Bolge | July 25, 2019A unique research project by the Universities of Melbourne and Sheffield aims to grow urban meadows that are as tough as they are beautiful.
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The big kick off
Frank Bongiorno | April 12, 2019History suggests that most governments are returned to power, but the polls have favoured Labor for months. As the election campaign kicks off, the only certainty is a cranky and mistrustful electorate.
