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Community members from Pavagada villages. Priya Pillai

October 11, 2022

India’s enormous solar park was meant to help poor communities. But it left the landless stricken

Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney; Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney; Jake Morcom, University of Technology Sydney, and Priya P Pillai, University of Technology Sydney

One of the world’s largest solar farms was meant to lift poor communities up. But instead it produced winners and losers.

Mick Tsikas/AAP

July 26, 2020

HomeBuilder only makes sense as a nod to Morrison’s home‑owning base

Lisa Adkins, University of Sydney; Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, and Martijn Konings, University of Sydney

Voters who own housing are strongly invested in increasing the value of their wealth-generating assets. And they strongly favour the Coalition, which knows to protect their interests.

Previous NSW election promises were easily funded. Not so this time. Shutterstock

March 19, 2019

Two ways to fund NSW election promises as property prices crash

Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney and Frank Stilwell, University of Sydney

Prices have been falling since September 2017. It means the budget will no longer repair itself.

Simon Birmingham said a reduced HECS repayment threshold for graduates would deliver a ‘fairer deal for taxpayers’. Sean Davey/AAP

May 5, 2017

The strange accounting behind the proposed HECS changes

Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney and Ben Spies-Butcher, Macquarie University

We shouldn’t take the government’s own budgetary savings rationale at face value.

Never mind, we’ve paid some Indians to be green on our behalf. benleahy

June 23, 2015

Even the pope gets it – carbon markets won’t fix the climate

Steffen Böhm, University of Essex; Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney, and Siddhartha Dabhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Should solving global warming be left to market forces or not? Our politicians can’t make up their minds.

The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways has involved the forced relocation of many families that live along the railway line. Neil Rickards

May 11, 2012

Beyond aid numbers: accountability for human rights abuses

Gareth Bryant, University of Sydney

In the lead-up to the federal government’s decision to delay the promised increase in the aid budget, a CARE Australia survey found strong public support for Australia’s international aid program. From…

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