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Essay
All living things are diminished: breaking the national consensus on the environment
In this paper, Bob Debus contrasts the history of a consensus on key environmental policy directions hewn from debate, compromise and negotiation. He chronicles the reversal and decline associated with the disruption of the current evolving environmental settlement.
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Fossil fuels, global warming and democracy: a report from a scene of the collision
In this paper, Kevin Taft explores the question - What happens to democracy when the fossil fuel industry collides with global warming?
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Climate change in a new democratic age: why we need more, not less, democratic participation
This paper examines the role of three key groups in the climate change debate - scientists, economists, and the bureaucracy - as the lens through which to consider the capacity of democratic decision-making processes to establish effective climate change policy.
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Precarious work: the need for a new policy framework
Former NZ Attorney General and Labour Minister, Professor Margaret Wilson, has written a detailed account of the rise of precarious work arrangements in Australia and New Zealand in this paper.
Report
The experience of education: the impacts of high stakes testing on school students and their families
This study lays bare Australian educator’s perspectives of NAPLAN testing and its unintended effects on schooling and student well-being.