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The rise of moral bubbles?

David Walker
February 3, 2021February 10, 2021
We may be headed for a world of endless moral bubbles, where targets for outrage can be identified and turned into bogeymen in record time,...
Coronavirus crisis Death and taxes Education Health Science Society

Covid-congestion effects: why are lockdowns so deadly?

Paul Frijters
February 3, 2021February 3, 2021
Consider the picture below of two hypothetical Accident and Emergency departments (A&E), one that has no covid-regulations and simply has the available nurses trying to...
Democracy Philosophy Political theory Sortition and citizens’ juries

The sound and the fury signifying nothing: some observations on the new politics

Nicholas Gruen
February 3, 2021June 25, 2021
Back in the day, (which is to say for most of the 20th century until things began changing in the 1980s, each of the major...

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RSS John Quiggin

  • Monday Message Board September 7, 2025 John Quiggin
  • My submission to the National Electricity Market Review September 3, 2025 John Quiggin
  • The crash of 2026: a fiction August 31, 2025 John Quiggin
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RSS Crooked Timber

  • My down the back of the sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism. Plus, Australian magpies. September 9, 2025 Hannah Forsyth
  • Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.) September 9, 2025 Doug Muir
  • Sunday photoblogging: Trieste (2009) September 7, 2025 Chris Bertram
  • Occasional paper: It gets on your nerves September 5, 2025 Doug Muir
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  • Understanding Business Building Insurance: Comprehensive Protection for Your Premises and Assets April 30, 2025 admin3
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RSS Bill Mitchell

  • Some discussion about taxation September 8, 2025 bill
  • Recent podcast and some thoughts on trade September 4, 2025 bill
  • Australia national accounts – stronger economic growth in June-quarter 2025 September 3, 2025 bill
  • The struggles to teach political economy and the aftermath – we all lost September 1, 2025 bill
  • The Smith Family MMT Manga – Episode 3 for Season 3 is now available August 29, 2025 bill

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  • NZ’s small music venues are struggling – but there are ways to help them thrive September 10, 2025
    Small clubs are the incubators of new talent and vital to the music industry’s future. But bigger players are tilting the market and threatening their survival.
    Dave Carter, Associate Professor, School of Music and Screen Arts, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
  • New horror film Went Up The Hill is a chilling exploration of trauma and memory September 10, 2025
    Samuel Van Grinsven’s film follows a man and his estranged mother’s widow, as both are drawn into a haunting possession that forces them to confront their pasts.
    Oscar Bloomfield, Film Studies PhD Student & Casual Academic, Deakin University
  • Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun September 10, 2025
    Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is glacially slow – isn’t it? This pessimistic narrative doesn’t stack up against evidence of very rapid change in the real world.
    Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
  • Social connections, service access, language: how disability can make things even harder for refugees September 10, 2025
    Australia is increasingly settling refugees with disability. New research points to intersecting issues that help and hinder how they fare when they get here.
    Tadgh McMahon, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
  • Victoria is on the cusp of signing a Treaty with Indigenous people. It could change lives September 10, 2025
    If successful, Victoria will demonstrate to the nation that truth, justice, and Indigenous self-determination can finally move from rhetoric to reality.
    Jeremie M Bracka, Law Lecturer and Transitional Justice Academic, RMIT University