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...Other environmental issues have failed to arouse the same clamor in this campaign. Both sides are promising to pursue water reform, with Latham announcing $A1 billion to revive the Murray river, and the Coalition touting a $A2 billion water fund to expand water recycling and efficient irrigation infrastructure. But to the concern of many scientists, crises like salinity and biodiversity loss have barely been mentioned. And despite Labor's promise to sign Australia up to the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse emissions and increase renewable energy use, climate change has also struggled to stir voters. "I think once they've done...
...critics label his policies on issues like drug reform loopy, dangerous or even, as Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson described them, communist. Brown shrugs off such attacks as proof of the Greens' growing influence, as he did the outrage that followed his interjection, along with fellow Greens senator Kerry Nettle, during President George W. Bush's address to federal parliament last year with a protest about the Australian detainees at Guant?namo...
When the Bi-Partisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) was signed into law by President Bush in 2002—the ever touted McCain-Feingold effort—its fundamental purpose was to curb outrageous campaign contributions that had been the source of so much political woe. Yet, on both sides of the political spectrum, groups quickly mobilized to find ways around the legislation, establishing all sorts of loophole groups that fell under the radar of soft-money restraints. The Swift Boat Veterans and their Texan philanthropists are simply a flagrant example of the way in which these groups are succeeding...
...convoluted campaign finance laws is to offer a clear cut set of restrictions, immune—or at least less vulnerable—to such easy circumvention. If legislators can put aside ideology for a moment, as they did in 2002, perhaps a more effective brand of campaign finance reform can be devised...
...most recent tally by the National Conference of State Legislatures says that 59 initiatives will appear on state ballots this year. Many of these issues concern fundamentally important issues such as same-sex marriage bans, drug policy reform and changes in funding for education and health care. With such highly contested issues appearing on state ballots, it’s likely that—if encouraged and reminded by projects such as “I Decide”—more students will assert their civic duty this election...