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Larissa Behrendt is a Euahleyai/Gamillaroi woman, and Laureate Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney ...
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DNA studies have provided the identity of the Somerton Man, but can’t explain why our fascination with his fate endures ...
Modern environmental sensibility has not increased the number of Australians who are able to imagine what our dominant homelands – the coastlands of the temperate zone – were like before European ...
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Tax to grind

Tax reform isn’t about economics, it’s about democracy. While introductory economics teaches us that we should tax things we want less of and subsidise things we want more of, it is silent about how ...