There is a widespread belief that Alan Jones can decide elections. Drawing on demographic and attitudinal data from an extensive survey by Roy Morgan Research, Clive Hamilton shows that perceptions of Jones? influence and political sway are out of proportion with the size and nature of his audience. His audience is about the same as...

There is a widespread belief that Alan Jones can decide elections. Drawing on demographic and attitudinal data from an extensive survey by Roy Morgan Research, Clive Hamilton shows that perceptions of Jones’ influence and political sway are out of proportion with the size and nature of his audience. His audience is about the same as...

Drawing on a 2005 survey of employees of ABC centres and twenty detailed interviews, Emma Rush and Christian Downie conclude that corporate chain centres provide poorer quality care on all quality aspects surveyed compared to community-based centres. They argue that the federal government should consider the wisdom of allowing any further expansion of corporate chains...

Clive Hamilton argues that the shift of government research funding from renewables to geosequestration and the recent interest in a nuclear power industry suggest that the federal government’s strategy is to actively delay any moves to temper the growth of Australia’s emissions for 20 years or more.

The Australian government has justified its failure to ratify the Kyoto Protocol by arguing that a cap on greenhouse gas emissions would have an adverse and disproportionate impact on the Australian economy because of our heavy dependence on emissions-intensive industries. Hugh Saddler, Frank Muller and Clara Cuevas propose a new approach which would preserve the...