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  • Visiting Gunditjmara country

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    Andrew MacInyre
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    Visiting Gunditjmara Country I recently returned from one of the most mind-opening trips on which I have ever been: a visit to Gunditjmara country in western Victoria (pink territory, bottom left on map). Along with nine other members of the University’s executive, I got to spend two days meeting with both elders and young people,…

  • Judging governments

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    Andrew MacInyre
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    Evaluating the record of achievement of a government is deceptively difficult. Too often such assessments make insufficient allowance for inherited starting conditions, the impact of circumstantial events or do little more than reflect one’s underlying political views. A more subtle challenge is overstating the significance of government action — for good or ill. As the…

  • Leaping and mounting: China’s changing political economy

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    Andrew MacInyre
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    A recent article by leading US-based China scholar, Dali Yang, tells a powerful story about the evolution of China’s political economy. The outlines of China’s truly spectacular economic progress are familiar: it has been leaping forward to become the world’s second largest economy in the world, to have the largest foreign reserves and the second…