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Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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The issue of same-sex marriage is derailing the government’s attempts to promote its agenda, as tension mounts ahead of a special Liberal Party meeting on Monday and parliament’s resumption on Tuesday.

The executive director of The Equality Campaign, Tiernan Brady, a leader of the successful “Yes” campaign...

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Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?

  • Written by: Colin Tatz, ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
imageThe Referendum Council contends there should be a place for Indigenous voices in Australia’s Constitution.AAP/Lucy Hughes Jones

My research on South Africa’s race politics yielded a startling metaphor. In 1936, the government established the 60-member Natives’ Representative Council as part-compensation for the abolition of the...

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ABC News' long-form journalism pays off on Twitter

  • Written by: Axel Bruns, Professor, Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology

As they face a changing market for journalistic content, Australian news organisations are increasingly being forced to experiment with new approaches to telling their stories. The Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX) for July 2017 shows that some new formats for investigative reports can generate considerable audience engagement – but...

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Weekly Dose: methylprednisolone, a drug for treating inflammation but not rare kidney disease

  • Written by: Nial Wheate, BPharm Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
imageMethylprednisolone, the corticosteroid that's used to treat serious asthma attacks, works by reducing inflammation.from www.shutterstock.com

Methylprednisolone is a prescription drug used to treat conditions involving inflammation, like asthma, arthritis, gout, tendinitis, transplant rejection, allergic reactions, and the skin conditions eczema and...

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  2. Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform
  3. To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters
  4. The off-topic Conversation #131
  5. Human embryo CRISPR advances science but let's focus on ethics, not world firsts
  6. Australia’s city/country divide is not as wide as you may think
  7. Sex work and the law – it's complicated
  8. Guide to the classics: Homer's Iliad
  9. Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia
  10. After the streaming 'gold rush' – a guide to China's video crackdown
  11. Fair winds and following seas: yes, a spider could migrate across an ocean
  12. Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive
  13. 'Tax returns for water': satellite-audited statements can save the Murray-Darling
  14. Solar is now the most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide
  15. Australia needs dozens more scientists to monitor climate properly, report says
  16. Entsch warns against 'ambush' meeting on marriage, amid speculation about postal ballot
  17. Lack of internet affordability may worsen Australia’s digital divide: new report
  18. Weekly Dose: anaesthetic and recreational drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
  19. UK crackdown on gender stereotypes in advertising shows up Australia's low bar
  20. Here's why it's so hard to say whether inequality is going up or down
  21. Bitcoin splits and Bitcoin Cash is created. Explaining why and what happens now
  22. More than 'slacktivism': we dismiss the power of politics online at our peril
  23. Home ownership falling, debts rising – it's looking grim for the under 40s
  24. Men still prefer mothers to stay at home: 12 charts on attitudes to work and family
  25. Australians want more children than they have, so are we in the midst of a demographic crisis?
  26. Pokies, sport and racing harm 41% of monthly gamblers: survey
  27. Curious Kids: What's going to happen to the Sun in the future? Will it explode?
  28. Affordable housing shortfall leaves 1.3m households in need and rising – study
  29. NAPLAN is ten years old – so how is the nation faring?
  30. The Method gone bananas? How motion capture actors are embracing their inner ape
  31. 'Just do the weather': does it matter if TV weather presenters aren't experts?
  32. So many in the West are depressed because they're expected not to be
  33. Party turmoil over way ahead on same-sex marriage
  34. Trump's Obamacare repeal attempt fails in US Senate
  35. Like a TARDIS in your head, memory helps you travel through time
  36. Workers are actually feeling less insecure in their jobs
  37. Security gets $1.2b, community programs to counter violent extremism $40m – that's a foolish imbalance
  38. The good news and bad news about the rare birds of Papua New Guinea
  39. Bottleshops affect people's health, so our laws need to reflect that
  40. Universities unveil plan to reduce sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus
  41. Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100
  42. A full ban on political donations would level the playing field – but is it the best approach?
  43. Why are there so few women screen composers?
  44. Universities have a problem with sexual assault and harassment: here's how to fix it
  45. Voluntary assisted dying is not a black-and-white issue for Christians – they can, in good faith, support it
  46. Three charts on: who is the typical investor in the Australian property market?
  47. Vanishing Australian backyards leave us vulnerable to the stresses of city life
  48. Planners know depressingly little about a city's impacts on our mental health
  49. Facebook is fighting social media identity theft in India, but it's a global problem
  50. Spilling blood in art, a tale of tampons, Trump and taboos

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