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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is back: experts respond

  • Written by Deborah Gleeson, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, La Trobe University

The latest incarnation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is said to have “fewer bad bits”. But as our experts point out below, there’s still a great deal wrong with, or missing from, the regional free trade agreement.

The new TPP is informally known as the TPP11, after the United States pulled out of the original 12-country...

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Newspoll 55-45 to Labor as Turnbull's better PM lead falls to 2. Qld and Alabama polling

  • Written by Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

This week’s Newspoll, conducted 9-12 November from a sample of 1630, gave Labor a 55-45 lead, a one point gain for Labor since last fortnight, and their largest Newspoll lead since February. Primary votes were 38% Labor (up 1), 34% Coalition (down 1), 10% One Nation (up 1) and 9% Greens (down 1). This is Turnbull’s 23rd consecutive...

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As China flexes its muscles in Antarctica, science is the best diplomatic tool on the frozen continent

  • Written by Adrian McCallum, Lecturer in Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast

Science has always drawn people and nations to Antarctica. But territorial claims and political tensions are also part of the history of that continent.

China is investing heavily in infrastructure and capability in Antarctica with research stations, airfields, field camps and plans for more. Science must continue to play a pivotal role in easing...

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Book review: Curing Affluenza takes aim at our all-consuming passions

  • Written by Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
image"That strange desire to spend money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need."Zoriana Zaitseva/Shutterstock.com

Richard Denniss doesn’t mind pissing people off. He’s good at it. His entertaining and punchy book Curing Affluenza will, with luck, kickstart a conversation about mindless consumerism and what we do about it.

Denn...

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  1. Australia's tenuous place in the new global economy
  2. Here’s looking at: Pipilotti Rist, Ever Is Over All
  3. What is the best way to respond to the Rohingya crisis: boycott, sanctions or engagement?
  4. Shorten recruits Keneally for Bennelong, as citizenship crisis claims Lambie
  5. Teaching kids 21st century skills early will help prepare them for their future
  6. High energy costs make vulnerable households reluctant to use air conditioning: study
  7. Honey Birdette and the changing attitudes to sex in advertising
  8. Living rooms for rent by the minute outsource the whole idea of home
  9. Demand for people skills is growing faster than demand for STEM skills
  10. Four factors driving the price of Bitcoin
  11. How Victoria's family violence system fails some victims – by assuming they're perpetrators
  12. From 'Leb bread' to 'Leb Kelly', finally we're seeing more Middle Eastern faces on TV
  13. Did they mean to do that? Accident and intent in an octopuses' garden
  14. Violence between residents in nursing homes can lead to death and demands our attention
  15. Alexander Dugin, Eurasianism, and the American election
  16. At APEC, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping revealed different ideas of Asia's economic future
  17. Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth: Global Carbon Budget 2017
  18. Twitter analysis shows Queensland Labor has put Adani behind them
  19. Hanson loses replacement senator – before he is even sworn in
  20. What we can learn from the Warren Buffett of the web
  21. With One Nation on the march, a change to compulsory voting might backfire on Labor
  22. Simon Leys, navigator between worlds – a unique Australian intellectual
  23. Cups, lingerie and home-made pads: what are the reusable options for managing your period?
  24. Cormann and Shorten reach deal on citizenship disclosure
  25. Hemp can now be sold as a food in Australia (and it's super good for you)
  26. The gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries
  27. Why big projects like the Adani coal mine won't transform regional Queensland
  28. Small potent doses of illegal drugs are evading authorities but having a huge impact
  29. Portable units and temporary leases free up vacant land for urgent housing needs
  30. What causes breast cancer in women? What we know, don't know and suspect
  31. 'Successful failures' – the problem with food banks
  32. Support for standardised tests boils down to beliefs about who benefits from it
  33. Three ways robots can save lives in war
  34. Labor increases Newspoll lead to 55-45% as Shorten moves within striking distance as better PM
  35. Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls
  36. Coalition loses majority after Alexander resigns. Qld polling and preferences
  37. From Public Confessions to Public Trials: The Complexities of the Weinstein Effect
  38. Extreme right Alabama Senate candidate accused of sexual encounter with 14-y/o girl
  39. Liberal John Alexander likely to quit imminently
  40. Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
  41. Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?
  42. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis
  43. Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?
  44. Flowers, remembrance and the art of war
  45. Brian Cox is a world record holding 'rockstar scientist'. Here's why
  46. UN slams Australia’s human rights record
  47. How the 'Warwick egg incident' of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
  48. Some remote Australian communities have drinking water for only nine hours a day
  49. Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day
  50. Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me

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