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Grattan on Friday: Keeping the community safe requires keeping the society united

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

After Martin Bryant massacred 35 people at Port Arthur in 1996, the federal government and the Australian community had exactly the right tangible response. It might have been hard politics for the Coalition to bring in a tough gun control regime, but it got done, to John Howard’s credit.

In contrast, the general opinion is that this...

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Trust Me, I'm An Expert: a lawyer, a biblical scholar and a fact-checker walk into the same-sex marriage debate...

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Editor, The Conversation

Where should the line fall between protecting people’s right to hold religious beliefs and the right to be free from discrimination?

It’s a question that’s emerged several times as the same-sex marriage debate has unfolded in Australia.

“Freedom of religion is not absolute. And neither is anti-discrimination law. Both are...

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Health Check: do we lose gains from exercise as our bodies get used to it?

  • Written by: Clint Miller, Lecturer, Clinical Exercise Physiology, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
imageIf you start running the same distance every day you'll increase your base level of fitness, but you'll plateau after a while. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Many of us exercise on a regular basis, and we become comfortable with the same exercise routine. But is your standard routine leading to a plateau in fitness gains? Once the body becomes used...

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Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe special COAG on national security saw the leaders united on the need to do more.Lukas Coch/AAP

The states’ handover of driver licence data for a beefed up national facial biometric matching capability would only bring existing arrangements into “real time”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, after the Council of Australian...

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