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Miriam Lyons: After Luck, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015

Ideas at the House

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Subsidies, Lobbying, and the Limits to Growth: Exploring Australian Politics and Policy

The chapter explores the issue of subsidizing the fossil fuel industry in Australia and questions why the country doesn't reinvest the subsidies into clean energy. It also discusses the mining industry's powerful lobby, crony capitalism, the limits to material growth, and the lack of policy generation within politics.

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