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Is it time we finally asked, “What can Australia take to the world?” (opens the original)
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Another day, another headline about politicians attacking one another.Pauline Hanson and Anthony Albanese. Pauline Hanson and Andrew Hastie. Now Allegra Spender has entered the argument, saying Hanson’s apology over comments about Indigenous Australians was just not good enough.<div class="imag
The Politics of Shutting Things Down (opens the original)
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There is a reflex in modern policymaking that has become so familiar we barely notice it anymore. Something is declared harmful, sometimes by someone we can’t quite identify. A campaign gathers momentum, politicians discover a problem they can be seen to solve, and before long the answer begins to feel almost inevitable. They ban it, restrict it, tax it, regulate it, or legislate it out of existence.It is an appealing form of politics because it looks like action. A new law can be pointed to as
The Myth of the Political Centre (opens the original)
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