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Crooked Timber
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- Book Chat: Mariana Mazzucato – Mission Economy July 24, 2021 Ingrid Robeyns
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OpenDemocracy
- ‘The only Black person in the room’: the truth about racism in Italy July 31, 2021 Nadeesha Uyangoda
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- UK faces insecure job ‘crisis’ as government plans to pull pandemic safety net away July 29, 2021 Adam Bychawski

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Bill Mitchell
- The Weekend Quiz – July 31-August 1, 2021 – answers and discussion July 31, 2021 bill
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- Booming growth in Britain (Brexit?) but child poverty rises (austerity) July 29, 2021 bill
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- Pandemic epistemology: discovery, feedback, ideological pomposity and banana peels. April 30, 2020 Lorenzo
- Making sense of the Arab explosion February 16, 2020 Lorenzo
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- Top economists say cutting immigration is no way to boost wages August 1, 2021 Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
- National Cabinet's plan out of COVID aims too low on vaccinations and leaves crucial questions unanswered August 1, 2021 Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute
- Coral Bell: the 'accidental academic' who wanted to stop armageddon July 30, 2021 Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Associate, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
- Vaccination rate needs to hit 70% to trigger easing of restrictions July 30, 2021 Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
- India's vaccine rollout is ignoring the many inequities in its society July 30, 2021 Rajib Dasgupta, Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- We must include more women in physics — it would help the whole of humanity July 30, 2021 Cathy Foley, Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
- No wonder people are confused. Most official COVID vaccine advice is way too complex July 30, 2021 Danielle Marie Muscat, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
- Curious Kids: do penguins fly underwater? July 30, 2021 Belinda Cannell, Research fellow, Research Associate, The University of Western Australia
- 3 things we need to get right to ensure online professional development works July 30, 2021 Filia Garivaldis, Senior Lecturer, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University
- Vital Signs: Uber's impact on traffic accidents is a lesson in calculating social benefit July 30, 2021 Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
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- The power of no: Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Black women's resistance July 30, 2021 Kathomi Gatwiri, Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University
- The discovery of Indigenous children's bodies in Canada is horrific, but Australia has similar tragedies it's yet to reckon with July 30, 2021 Lilly Brown, Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
- Rapid antigen testing isn't perfect. But it could be a useful part of Australia's COVID response July 30, 2021 Deborah Williamson, Professor of Microbiology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

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