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AS EXPECTED, THE 1996 TASMANIAN STATE ELECTION HAS DELIVERED A HUNG PARLIAMENT. THIS ELECTION REPORT STUDIES THE PERSISTENCE OF GREEN POLITICS AND PRESENTS THE 1996 ELECTION OUTCOME. IT CONCLUDES THAT POWER MAY HAVE BEEN RETURNED TO THE FLOOR OF THE PARLIAMENT AS THE GREENS BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE, HOWEVER, THE MAJOR PARTIES ARE UNLIKELY TO TOLERATE IT REMAINING THERE.

THIS ARTICLE DEFINES THE CHARACTER OF THE GREEN JOBS AGENDA IN AUSTRALIA, IDENTIFYING THE NATURE OF THE POLICY RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL EMPLOYMENT DEMANDS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE RECENT FEDERAL LABOR GOVERNMENT. DRAWING UPON ECOPOLITICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE DIVERSE "SHADES OF GREEN," IT ARGUES THAT THE ACCEPTABILITY OF GREEN JOB PROPOSALS IN THE AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT HAS VARIED TO THE EXTENT OF THEIR COMPATIBILITY WITH ECONOMIC GROWTH OBJECTIVES. AUSTRALIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL EMPLOYMENT CREDENTIALS HAVE RESTED UPON REACTIVE AND NARROWLY DEFINED NOTIONS OF "GREEN JOBS." THREE "WAVES" OF OFFICIAL ENVIRONMENTAL EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES ARE IDENTIFIED, (ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION, GREEN JOBS IN INDUSTRY, AND EMPLOYMENT BROKERING), AND ARE SHOWN TO BE COUCHED IN RHETORIC ASSERTING RESOURCE DEPENDENCY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION IS CONSIDERED TO OFFER A WAY BEYOND THE "JOB VERSUS ENVIRONMENT" IMPASSE THAT HAS PREVENTED A BONA FIDE GREENING OF EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA. IT WOULD SEE THE ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT DICHOTOMY RECONCEPTUALISED SO THAT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION BECOMES "A STEPPING STONE, NOT AN ALTERNATIVE, TO ECONOMIC GROWTH." RATHER THAN BURDENING FUTURE GROWTH, SUSTAINABILITY, INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITY ARE CONSIDERED BY THE ECOLOGICAL MODERNIST TO BE SUPERIOR GOODS.

Policy Analysis in Australia offers a distinctly Australian interpretation of policy scholarship with eighteen chapters strongly reflecting the outstanding contributions of Australian scholars to the field of public policy. It provides a coherent overview of the strengths and opportunities for policy analysis in Australia. It recognises that government agencies are no longer regarded as the sole source of sound policy analysis, and takes a broad view of policy analysis capacity, both within institutions at all levels of government, and beyond government in the media, political parties, business and non-government associations. It provides a valuable contribution to Australian scholarship about policy analysis in academic, professional, teaching and learning contexts, and is a key addition to research and teaching in comparative policy analysis and policy studies more generally.

'Policy Analysis in Australia' provides a broad range of perspectives on the location, scope, challenges, and quality of policy analysis in Australia. It accounts for the diverse sources of policy analysis and advice, within and outside government; and the diverse institutional settings in which analysis and decision-making are undertaken. Unlike books that critically assess policy development and policy outcomes in different policy fields, this volume focuses on the nature and quality of the various processes and organisational locations for the production and distribution of policy ideas and policy analysis.

Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C. ; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Harrisburg ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Author corporate affiliation: Institute for Research, Inc., State College, Pa. ; Subject code: FGD ; Subject code: VH

For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised. This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.

For nation-states, the contexts for developing and implementing policy have become more complex and demanding. Yet policy studies have not fully responded to the challenges and opportunities represented by these developments. Governance literature has drawn attention to a globalising and network-based policy world, but politics and the role of the state have been de-emphasised. This book addresses this imbalance by reconsidering traditional policy-analytic concepts, and re-developing and extending new ones, in a melded approach defined as systemic institutionalism. This links policy with governance and the state and suggests how real-world issues might be substantively addressed.

We report a measurement of the E-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using 150 GHz data taken from 2014 July to 2016 December with the POLARBEAR experiment. We reach an effective polarization map noise level of 32 mu K-arcmin across an observation area of 670 square degrees. We measure the EE power spectrum over the angular multipole range 500 <= l < 3000, tracing the third to seventh acoustic peaks with high sensitivity. The statistical uncertainty on E-mode bandpowers is similar to 2.3 mu K-2 at l similar to 1000, with a systematic uncertainty of 0.5 mu K-2. The data are consistent with the standard Lambda CDM cosmological model with a probability-to-exceed of 0.38. We combine recent CMB E-mode measurements and make inferences about cosmological parameters in.CDM as well as in extensions to Lambda CDM. Adding the ground-based CMB polarization measurements to the Planck data set reduces the uncertainty on the Hubble constant by a factor of 1.2 to H-0 = 67.20 +/- 0.57 km s(-1) Mpc(-1). When allowing the number of relativistic species (N-eff) to vary, we find N-eff = 2.94 +/- 0.16, which is in good agreement with the standard value of 3.046. Instead allowing the primordial helium abundance (Y-He) to vary, the data favor Y-He = 0.248 +/- 0.012. This is very close to the expectation of 0.2467 from big bang nucleosynthesis. When varying both Y-He and N-eff, we find N-eff = 2.70 +/- 0.26 and Y-He = 0.262 +/- 0.015. ; National Science Foundation (NSF) AST-0618398 AST-1212230 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation 4633 Simons Foundation 034079 Templeton Foundation 58724 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) University of Melbourne Australian Research Council FT150100074 JSPS Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) 18K13558 18H04347 19H00674 JP16K21744 18H05539 JP26800125 JP26220709 JP15H05891 JP26105519 ASI-COSMOS Network INDARK INFN Initiative European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC grant 616170 UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/P000525/1 CONICYT UC Berkeley-Chile Seed Grant (CLAS fund) 77047 Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT) CONICYT FONDECYT 1130777 1171811 DFI postgraduate scholarship program DFI Postgraduate Competitive Fund Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CGIAR Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) JSPS Core-to-Core Program, A. Advanced Research Networks Kyoto University Labex Univearths grant Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Ax Center for Experimental Cosmology at UC San Diego United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-05CH11231 United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-05CH11231 JP14J01662 JP18J02133

We present a measurement of theB-mode polarization power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data taken from 2014 July to 2016 December with thePolarbearexperiment. The CMB power spectra are measured using observations at 150 GHz with an instantaneous array sensitivity of