Volume 8 Number 10 October 8 - November 11 2012
Take a national government, three states or territories, a water system that impacts on a vast number of people and industries and what do you have? While it sounds like our own Murray-Darling Basin that sustains up to two million people, the answer is also: the Krishna River Basin in India that influences the lives of up to 90 million people.
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Volume 8 Number 10 October 8 - November 11 2012
It’s a long way from the top of Australia to its southernmost mainland city. But for a group of business and economics students, the journey proved to be well worth taking. By Gabrielle Murphy.
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Volume 8 Number 9 September 3 - October 8 2012
The publication next month of former Victorian Governor Davis McCaughey’s biography will lift the curtain on the life of one of Australia’s most respected but enigmatic public figures. By Gabrielle Murphy.
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Volume 8 Number 6 June 11 - July 8 2012
Melbourne Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow and author Arnold Zable reviews his experience meeting with members of Melbourne’s refugee community in an interdisciplinary forum to discuss the challenges facing young refugees.
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Volume 8 Number 6 June 11 - July 8 2012
For the thousands of people affected by irrelevant criminal records discrimination each year, the past is never really the past. Kate O’Hara looks at a student engagement project trying to turn the tide.
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Volume 8 Number 5 May 14 - June 9 2012
Eoin Hahessy investigates the major contribution to understanding unemployment made by economist Ian McDonald through a published study that has become the most cited ever by a University of Melbourne social science academic.
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Volume 8 Number 3 March 12 - April 8 2012
Government services need to do more for new and arguably more ‘visible’ migrants and refugees, according to a new study by Dr Millsom Henry-Waring and Professor Brian Galligan from the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences. Dr Henry-Waring explains key findings and recommendations.
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Volume 8 Number 2 February 13 - March 11 2012
Most people tend to associate natural disasters with chaos, destruction and confusion. However, in this edited extract of his winning essay for the Reserve Bank of Australia Economics Competition 2011 / Best Essay from a First Year Student, Business and Economics student Hans Zhu explains that in reality natural disasters often have minimal effect in the long-run.
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