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John Hawkins has an article published in The Conversation on June's national accounts showing Australia ending 2021-22 on a strong note.

Michael de Percy has an article in The Spectator this week titled "Higher Taxes: That old chestnut, where he comments on the Albanese government's Jobs and Skills Summit.

John Hawkins has a book review published in Australian Economic History Review, Vol 62, Issue 2, pg 193-194, July 2022

It is often lamented that Australians know little about their ‘federation fathers’ and the process by which the Australian colonies came together as a nation. School students are reportedly more familiar with George Washington than Edmund Barton; Bolton

This week Jordan McSweeny, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, was interviewed by the Age about the Victorian parliamentary inquiry that found young people were more vulnerable to being recruited by far-right groups. Jordan is an expert on far-right extremism and working on the ‘Democratic Resilience’ project at the Centre.

John Hawkins had an interview with 2CC on Wednesday morning and another on Monday with ABC Canberra Radio on cryptocurrency. He welcomed the government's announcement that they are looking at regulating the sector but warned it would be difficult. Listen to the interview (around 1.22 to 1.28).

John Hawkins was intensively quoted in RMIT ABC Fact Check - Sally McManus says labour's share of GDP is the lowest it's been since 1960. Is that correct?

Russell Ayres has an article on why the influenece and power of the public servants should be nurtured, developed and managed in Apolitical

Sascha Dov Bachmann has a co-written article on DefenceWeb on whether AFRICOM is the key to unlocking South Africa's economic growth.

Listen to Kim Rubenstein's interview with Phillip Adams, ABC RN about Scott Morrison being given power by the GG to make decisions on legislation in other Minister’s portfolios.

Read Kim Rubenstein's article in The Conversation about how it's time to give the ACT and NT stronger voices in parliament.

Watch Kim Rubenstein's TV interview with ABC News with Kirsten Aiken about Ministerial responsibility and section 64 of the Constitution.

Read John Hawkin's article in The Conversation on how Australia’s consumer price index is about to go monthly, meaning Australia will join most of the developed world in getting an update on inflation at the end of every month, instead of once every three months as at present.

The Senate Environment Committee has just accepted John Hawkin's submission on the latest climate bills this week.

Sascha Dov Machmann has a co-written article published by Taylor & Francis Group on Scoping the Future Counterintelligence Focus.

Yogi Vidyattama was interviewed by SBS and The Canberra Times for articles on Australia's interest rates and what you need to know about electric vehicles before the government's 2035 fossil-fuelled car phase out.

Stephen Bartos has an article in The Conversation on why election promises should be costed before polling day.

The Weekly Wrap has John Hawkins' letter to the Editor, Canberra Times on the review of the Rserve Bank. The secretariat commented that John was the first person to contact them about it. John plans to make and critique submissions if these are called for.

Chris Wallace has an opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald titled Albanese goes back to the future for governing.

John Hawkins has co-written an article in The Conversation on the new speaker and the role of the speaker and why it is important.

John Hawkins was interviewed on Thursday morning by Kia Handley on ABC Radio Newcastle (It runs from around 47 mins to 53 mins.). Johns is interviewed about the Speaker's role in the House of Representatives.

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John Hawkins was interviewed by ABC News and quoted in this article on the Reserve Bank review.

Listen to Chris Wallace on ABC Radio Canberra Mornings with Adam Shirley where she thinks the answer to mandates is that "we need a big, fat, persuasive ad campaign so no one misses the message."

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John Hawkins was interviewed on Sunday by Lisa Leong on ABC Radio Melbourne (It runs from around 36 mins to 48 mins.).

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Stephen Bartos has an article in The Conversation on Australia getting a wellbeing budget: what we can- and can't - learn from New Zealand.

Michael Walsh has an article in The Conversation on What is emotional labour - and how do we get it wrong?

John Hawkins was extensively quoted in The Canberra Times on how home buyers are prepared for interest rates to increase despite the RBA forecasting error.

John Hawkins was interviewed by Laura Tchilinguirian on ABC Radio Canberra (from around 2.06.30 to 2.12.25) on what the cash rate increase means for households and the economy more broadly. This was followed by an interview on Radio 2CC on Wednesday morning predicting the 0.5% rate increase.

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John has an article in The Conversation about cryptocurrency and decentralised finance.

John was interviewed about this article in The Conversation on ABC Radio Canberra with Adrienne Francis on Monday morning (from around 2.16.15 to 2.22) and this was followed by an interview with radio 2CC on the same day.

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Russell Ayres has co-authored an opinion piece in the Canberra Times' Public Sector Informant, addressed to Professor Glyn Davis as the new Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, highlighting the need to focus reforms on promoting the agency exercised by public servants.

Bruce Arnold has a new article on why trees aren't people - 'Signs of Invisibility: Nonrecognition of Natural Environments as Persons in International and Domestic Law' in the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique

Stephen Bartos writes a weekly column the online publication The Mandarin. Here is Stephen's latest article on Climate change shaping to be a huge policy priority and lots of work

Chris Wallace has an opinion piece in The Age on Stop playing dirty: Why Australia politics must clean up its act.

Sascha Dov Bachmann had a piece commissioned by the Australian Institute of International Affairs on Conflict In The South China Sea And Why It Matters For Australia

Sascha been working on various projects with outputs and media appearances regarding the Ukraine War since the war started in February. One such was a podcast with Flinders University:

Here is a multidisciplinary reflection on Ukraine by Sascha with colleagues from Defence/ADF & academia (ECU, AUS) published in the flagship publication of US Military academia, the US Naval Postgraduate School on Operational Design: Imagination Needed in Ukraine.

John Hawkins has an article in The Conversation on 1970s-style stagflation now playing on central bankers’ minds.

Russell Ayres cowrote an article in the Public Sector Informant section of the Canberra Times on APS to play crucial role in crises ahead.

"Never waste a good crisis". This aphorism, sometimes wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill, was used by Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to former United States president Barack Obama in 2008. He was talking about the Sub Prime Crisis (known in Australia as the Global Financial Crisis), and the opportunity it presented to do things that the US government did not otherwise have the political capital to try.

Our new Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has seen more than his share of crises, including when he was Leader of the House and minister for infrastructure, helping deal with the GFC and, subsequently, the challenges of minority government for the Gillard government.

Phil Lewis has an article in The Conversation on why capping food prices won't work.

John Hawkins had a radio interview on ABC Canberra about the minimum wage increase.

John Hawkins has an article in The Conversation on 'National income is climbing, but the share going to wages is shrinking: 6 graphs that explain the economy.'

Brenton Prosser has an article in The Mandarin on five tips for the APS in helping ministers deal with an independent crossbench.

Jonathan Pickering has in The Conversation on how Labor could repair Australia's tattered reputation on climate change.

Chris Wallace has an article in The Sydney Morning Herald on Women who aren't going to take it anymore have changed Australian politics.

Bruce Arnold has an article with Wendy Bonython in The Conversation on how in this election many adults with disabilities won't be allowed to vote and how that should change.

John Hawkins and Michael Walsh have an article in The Conversation on Elon Musk and Twitter.

John Hawkins has an article in The Conversation on Inflation hits 5.1%. How long until mortgage rates climb?

Michael Jensen and Sascha Bachmann have an article in The Conversation on how disinformation and foreign interference constitute a grave threat to Western democracies, particularly during elections.

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In articles by City News and ABC News, Bruce Arnold was quoted on the ACT government's proposal in considering a four-day working week for Canberra's public service.

Yogi Vidyattama, Darren Sinclaire, Jacki Schimer and Rob Tanton have an article in The Conversation today on a study commissioned by the ACT government that finds zero-interest loans and free registration helps to get Australians to buy electric cars, but the price of the car and petrol prices matter most of all.

What would it take to get Australians to buy electric cars? Canberra Provides a guide

Only 5,532 of the 101,233 new cars sold in Australia last month were all-electric.

While that number is an improvement on previous months, it is tiny compared to the 25% to 85% of new cars sold that are all-electric in European nations such as Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway.

How does cancel culture impact us as a society? Listen to Nicole Curato's interview on cancel culture.

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Listen to John Hawkins's interview with Paul Turton on ABC's RN Drive on how much you can actually expect to save from the fuel excise.

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John Hawkins and Yogi Vidyattama give us an insight into how much the government's fuel excise cut will benefit in the Conversation article titled - What will the fuel excise cut save? Not as much as the treasurer says.

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Children, Care and Crime Trauma and Transformation a forthcoming book by Alison Gerard, Andrew McGrath, Emma Colvin and Annette Gainsford was featured on Radio National recently. Annette Gainsford, was invited on by Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt.