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Hugh Stretton Oration 2023

Mark Butler delivers the Hugh Stretton Oraion.

On Thursday the 27th of April, the Stretton Institute hosted the Hugh Stretton Oration 2023 with the Hon Mark Butler MP, Minister for Health and Aged Care as orator.

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Grape growers are adapting to climate shifts early - and their knowledge can help other farmers

By Bill Skinner, Douglas Bardsley and Georgina Drew

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When it’s ‘lawful but awful’: an integrity commission for rich Australia

Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus spoke last week about a commonwealth integrity commission. One of the issues that will face such a commission is whether pork barrelling will come under its purview.

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Repairing Australia’s integrity: reform priorities after the 2022 federal election

Integrity was a deciding issue in the 2022 federal election campaign. Will this be a turning point for citizen trust and Australia’s reputation, after Australia’s
fall on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index to its lowest point ever?

The Morrison Government’s inability to produce a suitable model for a federal anti-corruption commission in 2018-22 proved pivotal in tipping Australians to
change the government, but what next for that reform, and what else is needed to arrest our sliding national integrity performance and restore public trust?

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Hugh Stretton Oration 2022

Australia Fair: is the playing field fair for women and girls?

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Baby oysters follow the crackling sound of snapping shrimp

Though oysters may be brainless bivalves, they can “hear” and swim towards attractive sounds of the sea.

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When is a Gift a Bribe

By Adam Graycar and David Jancsics

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Australian Cultural Policy Now: from quick fixes to long-term progress

Performing Arts

With the performing arts reeling from the impact of COVID, this webinar explores a pathway forward.  Grappling with issues such as whether cultural policy should focus nationally or locally, how to shift cultural policy from industrial policy to public service, how inclusive it could be, and how building for the future might take place, three distinguished speakers survey the landscape. They will provide an overview of the settings for Cultural Policy in Australia and also explore how the substructure can be nurtured.

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Sustainable catch: navigating global fisheries crime

By Adam Graycar

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Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy

By Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti

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