To achieve real growth, the NZ government needs to relax the rules around housing

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon wants New Zealand to go for growth. But his plan, focused on reforming foreign investment, planning and competition laws, as well as boosting the tourism and mining sectors, is hampered by...

Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold

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Political parties are integral to the Australian political system, yet also largely absent from the Commonwealth Constitution itself. They are not entirely absent: a constitutional amendment in 1977 secured, as required...

A new report card shows inequality in Australia isn’t as bad as in the US – but we’re headed in the wrong direction

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Its hard to remember a time the United States seemed as tense and divided as it does today. That should serve as a stark reminder of just how important it is to monitor the health of our own nation. Today, our new report...

‘Multiple red flags’: ASIC’s court case against Star executives shows the risks of complacency

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This week the corporate regulator is taking on executives and directors of Star Entertainment in the Federal Court, in a landmark case for Australian corporate governance. ASIC will allege that despite multiple red flags...

Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research

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Hate speech on X was consistently 50% higher for at least eight months after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform, new research has found. The research looked at the prevalence of overt hate speech...

Removing babies is still harming First Nations families, almost two decades after the apology to Stolen Generations

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Today marks 17 years since the apology to Australias Indigenous peoples for the forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families between the mid-1800s and 1970s. Yet, communities and...

3.5 kilometres underwater, scientists found a staggeringly energetic particle from outer space

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Three and a half kilometres beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual telescope called KM3NeT. The enormous device is still under construction, but today the telescopes...