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Former Labor senator to be Australia’s first anti-slavery commissioner

With an estimated 41,000 people living in modern slavery in Australia, Chris Evans’ role to address exploitative practices such as forced marriage and deceptive recruiting

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Labor 'losing touch' with blue-collar base: party elder

The Albanese government has copped more friendly fire, this time from a former Labor minister claiming the party has lost touch with its working-class base.

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Researchers analysed 1,500 climate policies to find what works. These are the lessons for Australia

Almost 35 years have passed since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its first assessment report. It found human activities were substantially increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other gases ion the atmosphere, which was warming the global climate.

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Albanese’s dumb, wrong-headed protectionism is jobs-for-the-blokes

The prime minister’s new manufacturing policy is dumb, unnecessary and reflective of a 20th-century trade union mentality.

Crikey

Let’s talk about… tax, baby

The Australian media’s love of conflict and willingness to kowtow to vested interests have prevented us from having a serious conversation about tax reform. That needs to change.

Crikey

Worried economists call for a carbon price, a tax on coal exports, and 'green tariffs' to get Australia on the path to net zero

Australia’s top economists have overwhelmingly backed the reintroduction of the carbon price that helped cut Australia’s emissions between 2012 and 2014.

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A carbon tax can have economic, not just environmental benefits for Australia

A new study has found that a carbon tax, accompanied by “revenue recycling”, can produce both environmental and economic benefits for Australia.

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Private school funding increased twice as much as public schools’ in decade after Gonski, data shows

Exclusive: government funding since landmark education review released ‘has gone to those least in need’, says national convenor of Save Our Schools

The Guardian - AU

Australia to move last refugee from offshore processing on Nauru – but its cruelty and cost are not over

Despite the ostensible end to offshore processing on the Pacific island, the architecture and ‘inhuman’ policy remain

The Guardian - AU

Gareth Evans: the case for recognising Palestine

Since a United Nations General Assembly Resolution vote in November 2012, Palestine has had the status of a state within the UN system. It is not a full member state but, like the Holy See, a non-member observer state. Australia – after a heady debate within the Gillard cabinet –…

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A sustainable Australia depends on what happens in our cities – that's why we need a national urban policy

Australia has not had a national urban policy since the Rudd government. A troika of Liberal PMs followed. Tony Abbott wasn’t interested. Malcolm Turnbull didn’t quite live up to the hype but delivered cross-governmental City Deals and the Smart Cities and Suburbs Program. Scott Morrison at best presided over a…

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Peter Dutton says the gender pay gap was 17.4 per cent under Labor and fell to 13.8 per cent under the Coalition. Is that correct?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the gender pay gap under Labor was 17.4 per cent and fell to 13.8 per cent under the Coalition. RMIT ABC Fact Check looks at the numbers.

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Julian Assange’s Belmarsh prison blues

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has spent four years mostly inside his UK maximum-security prison cell for a case his wife Stella describes as ‘99% politics and 1% law’, and the divide between the rich and poor in Sydney grows ever wider.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Simon Birmingham on the Voice, Aston, the Liberals, Uranium

The Liberals have formally decided to oppose the Voice. Peter Dutton has declared he will campaign against it, a high risk strategy when polls are showing a majority of Australians currently support a “yes” vote.

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A legal instrument underpinning Australia's offshore processing regime lapsed last year, and for months no-one noticed

For a few months in 2022, a legal instrument underpinning Australia's offshore asylum seeker processing policy stopped working. Here's what happened, and why.

The Guardian - AU

Will Steffen, ‘courageous’ climate scientist, dies in Canberra aged 75

Steffen remembered as a ‘truly leading thinker’ and someone who influenced scientific agenda and governments worldwide

The Conversation

After years of austerity, Revive writes the next chapter in Australian literary culture

The Albanese government’s Revive is Australia’s first national cultural policy in ten years. The last was the Gillard government’s Creative Australia in 2013.

The Guardian - AU

Grog bans return: what is going on in Alice Springs and how did we get here?

Locals say the rise in social unrest and violence is the result of years of punitive policies and neglect in housing, health and welfare

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Australia’s gambling addiction: can politics finally stop the money wheel turning?

The $25bn lost on gambling annually comes mostly from those who can least afford it, but repeated attempts at policy reform have foundered. In the first part of a new series we ask why, and whether that may be about to change

The Conversation

Ross Garnaut thinks Australia can become a low-carbon superpower; Clive Hamilton is not convinced

Ross Garnaut is a big beast in the Australian climate policy world, and a Labor favourite since his days as economic adviser to Bob Hawke. His 2008 Climate Change Review shifted the dial on policy, encouraging the Rudd and Gillard governments to pursue carbon pricing laws. He fell out of…

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Young Aus Women Are Jaded By Politics — Growing Up In The Gillard Era May Have Played A Part

Aus girls feel more jaded by politics than the global average and growing up watching Julia Gillard's misogyny speech may have played a part.

ABC News

Australia's new National Cultural Policy: What the arts sector wants, and what the Labor government plans to deliver

Tony Burke has promised a renewed focus on the arts and a suite of reforms to support the sector – but is staying quiet on the question of funding.

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A new national cultural policy is an opportunity for a radical rethinking of the importance of culture in Australia

As the cut-off for the government’s consultation on a National Cultural Policy (NCP) approaches, thousands in the sector are putting the finishing touches to their three-page submissions. These are directed around “five pillars” drawn from Creative Australia, the national cultural policy announced in the last months of the Gillard regime,…

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s high gas prices could be here to stay if threats don’t turn into action

The east coast faces a potential gas shortfall in 2023 amounting to 10% of demand and there are calls for exporters to fill the gap

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What the NDIS needs to do to rebuild trust, in the words of the people who use it

It is nearing ten years since the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was legislated in the dying days of the Gillard government. Not only was there bipartisan support for the NDIS, the reform came about on the back of a grassroots campaign from the disability community. People with disability –…

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