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Five quotes from the Turnbull-Trump call show the folly of Australia's refugee policy

  • Written by: Asher Hirsch, PhD Student, Monash University

The Washington Post’s leaked transcript of a January phone call between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull highlights the failure of Australia’s deal with the US to take refugees from offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island.

It also reveals Turnbull’s desperation not to let people who came by...

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Greg Hunt's plan to reduce hospital admissions won't work if he can't measure successes and failures

  • Written by: Joan Henderson, Senior Research Fellow (Honorary)., University of Sydney

The controversial issue of hospital funding will be up for discussion again today as state health ministers meet at the COAG Health Council. Earlier this week, The Australian newspaper reported the federal health minister, Greg Hunt, might consider a ten-year funding deal with the states, rather than the normal five-year agreement. But this would...

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Cricket pay saga a case study in how not to resolve industrial disputes in sport

  • Written by: Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
imageBoth James Sutherland and Alistair Nicholson faced criticism for their handling of cricket's pay dispute.AAP/Tracey Nearmy

The protracted pay dispute between Cricket Australia and its players is over. Harmony is restored in the sport’s employment relations. Playing tours to Bangladesh and India, and the related commercial agreements, can...

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Friday essay: the photographer, the island and half a million lifejackets

  • Written by: Cameron Muir, Researcher, National Museum of Australia / Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
imageAn aerial shot of discarded life jackets on the Greek island of Lesvos.Tasos Markou

Tasos Markou and his fiancé, Maria, were on their sofa avoiding Greece’s summer heat when a video of a man carting a toddler in a green wheelie bin turned up in their social media feeds. The place looked familiar: a Mediterranean coastal village, a...

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  1. When it comes to sport, boys 'play like a girl'
  2. The right to bare arms: the history of Australian sex worker activism
  3. How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology
  4. Computer says no: robo-advice is growing but we still don't trust it
  5. As a coastal defence, the Great Barrier Reef’s value to communities goes way beyond tourism
  6. The Wonderful Weirdness of 'You're Not Alone'
  7. Grattan on Friday: Marriage on the rocks in divided Liberal Party
  8. Turnbull to tell power companies: do better by customers
  9. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown
  10. Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?
  11. ABC News' long-form journalism pays off on Twitter
  12. Weekly Dose: methylprednisolone, a drug for treating inflammation but not rare kidney disease
  13. Diana revived the monarchy – and airing old tapes won't change a thing
  14. Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform
  15. To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters
  16. The off-topic Conversation #131
  17. Human embryo CRISPR advances science but let's focus on ethics, not world firsts
  18. Australia’s city/country divide is not as wide as you may think
  19. Sex work and the law – it's complicated
  20. Guide to the classics: Homer's Iliad
  21. Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia
  22. After the streaming 'gold rush' – a guide to China's video crackdown
  23. Fair winds and following seas: yes, a spider could migrate across an ocean
  24. Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive
  25. 'Tax returns for water': satellite-audited statements can save the Murray-Darling
  26. Solar is now the most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide
  27. Australia needs dozens more scientists to monitor climate properly, report says
  28. Entsch warns against 'ambush' meeting on marriage, amid speculation about postal ballot
  29. Lack of internet affordability may worsen Australia’s digital divide: new report
  30. Weekly Dose: anaesthetic and recreational drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
  31. UK crackdown on gender stereotypes in advertising shows up Australia's low bar
  32. Here's why it's so hard to say whether inequality is going up or down
  33. Bitcoin splits and Bitcoin Cash is created. Explaining why and what happens now
  34. More than 'slacktivism': we dismiss the power of politics online at our peril
  35. Home ownership falling, debts rising – it's looking grim for the under 40s
  36. Men still prefer mothers to stay at home: 12 charts on attitudes to work and family
  37. Australians want more children than they have, so are we in the midst of a demographic crisis?
  38. Pokies, sport and racing harm 41% of monthly gamblers: survey
  39. Curious Kids: What's going to happen to the Sun in the future? Will it explode?
  40. Affordable housing shortfall leaves 1.3m households in need and rising – study
  41. NAPLAN is ten years old – so how is the nation faring?
  42. The Method gone bananas? How motion capture actors are embracing their inner ape
  43. 'Just do the weather': does it matter if TV weather presenters aren't experts?
  44. So many in the West are depressed because they're expected not to be
  45. Party turmoil over way ahead on same-sex marriage
  46. Trump's Obamacare repeal attempt fails in US Senate
  47. Like a TARDIS in your head, memory helps you travel through time
  48. Workers are actually feeling less insecure in their jobs
  49. Security gets $1.2b, community programs to counter violent extremism $40m – that's a foolish imbalance
  50. The good news and bad news about the rare birds of Papua New Guinea

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