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Michaela Vaughan [twitname]mvaughan101[/twitname] Economies in crisis and rad budgets written Coal and big business with which I’m smitten Spurious promises tied up with string These are a few of my favourite things  

Laura Kenny Some days I look to diaries I once wrote in youthful anguish and uncertainty And floundering embarrassment – and wish for nothing but a paper shredder. But it is only when it’s gone you realise it was progress.

One of the most intriguing things about the current state of politics, both in Australia and worldwide, is the reconfiguring of people’s policy priorities from, say, five years ago. In Australia, as around the world, the last decade was dominated by debates over what leading policymakers have called a “diabolical …

It’s a joke. A pointless exercise contrived by the government of the day in an attempt to spin itself out of whatever black hole it’s managed to fall into. I should clarify. Every year the federal government hands down a budget in May. It’s a critical process of governing in …