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The prospects for action on climate have never been better
The prospects for action to stabilise the global climate have never been better, writes John Quiggin.
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Why Bill Shorten and Labor can afford to ignore Rupert Murdoch
With declining reach and influence, the Murdoch empire can no longer determine election results. The central reason for this decline in influence is the radically shrinking reach of News Ltd’s newspapers, argues Rodney Tiffen.
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The invasion of the heavy hitters
Labor’s state election successes during the Howard era propelled ill-equipped party heavies into Canberra. The Killing Season is showing us some of the results ONE THING all Labor players agree on in ABC TV’s The Killing Season is the sublime nature of the party’s 2007 federal election campaign. Everyone involved, from Kevin Rudd and campaign...
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The ‘C’ word: class, migrants and academia
In this chapter May Ngo discusses her background as a child of Vietnamese bakers in Sydney and how having a working-class background has influenced what she does now at university. The 'C' word appears at page 20, following the introduction to this book Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class edited...
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Home internet in remote Indigenous communities
The project aimed to inform the successful provision of internet infrastructure, maintenance and training in remote areas by providing detailed qualitative analysis of how households in the three communities experienced the internet.