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High Court to rule on whether Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealander

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageBarnaby Joyce may be a New Zealand citizen.AAP/Lukas Coch

The government has been rocked by advice from the New Zealand government that Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce might be a citizen of that country, making him ineligible to be a federal MP.

The government is referring the case to the High Court but Malcolm Turnbull, on...

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A short history of the office

  • Written by: Agustin Chevez, Adjunct Research Fellow, Centre For Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
imageIn the seventeenth century lawyers, civil servants and other new professionals began to work from offices in Amsterdam, London and Paris. British Museum/Flickr

For centuries people have been getting up, joining a daily commute or retreating to a room, to work. The office has become inseparable from work.

Its history illustrates not only how our work...

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Why it costs you so much to see a specialist – and what the government should do about it

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageSome specialists charge a premium because they claim to be exceptional in their field. But how are patients to know if that's true?from www.shutterstock.com

Australians pay too much when they go to medical specialists. The government can and should do more to drive prices down. A current Senate Inquiry on out-of-pocket costs will hopefully lead to...

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How to engineer a plebiscite disaster: lessons from the Tasmanian dams vote

  • Written by: Nick Economou, Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
imageLike its Tasmanian predecessor, the marriage plebiscite has been engineered by the leader’s intransigent opponents. AAP/Lukas Coch

There is an old saying that those who don’t learn from history’s mistakes are bound to repeat them. One wonders if Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recalls the name of Doug Lowe, for Turnbull’s...

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  6. On North Korea, Turnbull locks Australia into the unpredictability of unpredictable players
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  9. Pregnant women shouldn't start taking vitamin B3 just yet: reports it prevents miscarriage and birth defects are overblown
  10. A memo to Google – firing employees with conservative views is anti-diversity
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on same-sex marriage going postal
  12. We frown on voters' ambivalence about democracy, but they might just save it
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  15. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on surviving the Senate
  16. Clearing homeless camps compounds the violation of human rights and entrenches the problem
  17. Friday essay: political cartooning – the end of an era
  18. Vital Signs: that feeling you get when the economy can't be explained by economic models
  19. Is Usain Bolt the greatest athlete of all time? That's not what the numbers say
  20. Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  21. People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands
  22. Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull
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  24. Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy
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  37. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
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