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Federal election experts available for comment
Federal election experts available for comment
30 June 2016

A range of experts is available to comment on issues leading up to the 2 July Federal Government election.
Journalists can search by topic or name at  or contact the following experts. 

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Law relating to politics, elections, finance, labour and employment, and how elections are regulated and run.
g.orr@law.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3014, 0434 525 398,

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Australian politics, hate speech, human rights and freedom of speech.
k.gelber@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 2910

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Political psychology, governance and public policy, populism.
f.mols@uq.edu.au+61 7 3365 9024, (mobile number available to journalists on request.)

 ( r.walter1@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 8210, 0449 915 833

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Media ethics, spin, media ownership, media performance, advertising ethics, journalism, Twitter and Facebook.
j.harrison@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 824 

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Communication, social media and data analytics. Advanced computational techniques to analyse public debates, social media commentary, media and candidate profile data. 
d.angus@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8255, 

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Asylum policy, people smuggling.
a.schloenhardt@law.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6191

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Climate change, environment, the Great Barrier Reef, ecology and zoology.
oveh@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3443 3112

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Climate change and environment policy.
k.hussey@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3443 3154, 0420 537 169

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Big data. Professor Li called the 2013 federal election and the last Queensland election to above 95% accuracy with an online search engine he
xueli@itee.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 2379, x.li@uq.edu.au

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Conservation and biodiversity, ecology, environmental science and management.
m.maron@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 3836, 0417 110 537

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Environmental law/regulation, climate policy, and the Great Barrier Reef.
chris.mcgrath@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 7405, 0438 299 097

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Environment law/policy, planning law and property and insurance law.
j.bell-james@law.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6588, 0423 339 054

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Conservation and environmental decision making, ecological impacts of climate change and wildlife and habitat management.
j.rhodes@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6838, 0466 650 709

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Environmental sciences, ecology, conservation and biodiversity.
k.wilson2@uq.edu.au, + 61 7 3365 2829, 0432 844 079

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Industrial relations, taxation, economic policy, climate change economics, water and economics, economic growth.
jmangan@bel.uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 8171, 0412 433 051

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Industrial relations and taxation, economics, economic policy, public asset sales, drought and economics, water and economics/politics, environment/climate change and economics, economic growth, tax, employment policy, political economy, "zombie economics", penalty rates.
j.quiggin@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 9646, 0400 747 165

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Taxation, public economics, regulatory economics, auction and market design and competition economics, taxation of multinationals.
f.menezes@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3346 7061, 0417 494 426

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Natural resource economics, international environmental economics, economic development, modelling and policy.
j.asafuadjaye@uq.edu.au, +61 7 3365 6539, 0435 395 372