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Aiming Higher
Vantage Point Issue 3

The time has come for a reckoning in the Australian higher education.

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Strong environment laws stop new coal and gas

Add your name to demand strong environment laws that can stop new coal and gas now!

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Fix our gas export problem

Big gas is taking the piss and Australian governments are letting them. It has to stop.

Opinion

Coalition offers crash course on staying in opposition for forever

If the Coalition’s aim is to stay in opposition, it’s doing a bang-up job.

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Launch a Parliamentary Inquiry into AUKUS

Australia has an opportunity to get out of the AUKUS security pact. We should take it.

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Leaked report undermines WA Premier’s claim that LNG exports help Asia’s clean energy transition

Mike Rann: Gas lobby using “tobacco tactics” to keep polluting, tax breaks

Opinion

Liberal strife is really about winning – but not elections

by Amy Remeikis in The New Daily

Media Release

ANZ profit completes obscene $43 billion quadrella

Former Greens leader Bob Brown speaks to climate change activists, protesting outside Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, February 4, 2020.

Podcast: Follow the Money

Defending nature with Bob Brown

featuring Ebony Bennett

Featured Research

Education & Training, Corporate Governance

Letter to the Editor – Uni has plenty to take into account

by Richard Denniss

International Relations, Security

Polling – Australia-US Security

Elections, Politics & Parties, Governance & Government Agencies

Polling – Cash For Access

Education & Training

Polling – Higher Education

Fossil Fuel Mining, International Relations

Australia Last: The failure of Australian gas policy

by Matt Saunders and Richard Denniss

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Join Vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University, Professor George Williams AO discussing his new essay, Aiming Higher: Universities and Australia’s future

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