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Foreign policy white paper should reflect the uncertainty of our times

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageForeign Minister Julie Bishop has recalled all Australian diplomats to review Australia’s foreign policy settings next month.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Like a kid’s party where everyone gets a prize, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has summoned 113 of Australia’s heads of mission home for consultations as part of efforts to develop a foreign...

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Explainer: where to from here on penalty rates?

  • Written by: Ray Markey, Professorial Fellow and former Director of the Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University
imageA Canberra barista makes coffee. Many low-paid workers will be affected by the Fair Work Commission's decision on penalty rates.AAP/Lukas Coch

In its long-awaited decision, the Fair Work Commission on February 23 reduced Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for over 700,000 workers covered in four awards for hospitality, fast food, retail and...

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Women who commit violent crimes need programs to help them while in prison

  • Written by: Mandy Wilson, Research Fellow in Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Research, Curtin University
imageA large proportion of incarcerated women are there for violent offences.from shutterstock.com

Women make up a small segment (8%) of the Australian prisoner population. The majority have committed minor non-violent offences.

The tragic case of Ms Dhu, who died in police custody in Western Australia after being detained for non-payment of fines has...

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How to slash half a billion dollars a year from Australia's drugs bill

  • Written by: Jonathan Karnon, Professor of Health Economics, University of Adelaide
imageThe government is paying too much for pharmaceuticals that are no better than their cheaper counterparts. Let's fix that.from www.shutterstock.com

Australia is spending more than A$500 million a year too much for pharmaceuticals because of a little known loophole that allows drug companies to overcharge the government for a wide range of drugs.

The...

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  1. The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers
  2. Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch
  3. Australia gets its first public display of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
  4. Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis
  5. Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017
  6. Australia has kept disabled migrant children out for decades – it's time we gave them protection instead
  7. Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?
  8. Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives
  9. Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces
  10. The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws
  11. Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed
  12. Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research
  13. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  14. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  15. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  16. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  17. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  18. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  19. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  20. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  21. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  22. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  23. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  24. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  25. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  26. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  27. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  28. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  29. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  30. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  31. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  32. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  33. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  34. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  35. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  36. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  37. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  38. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  39. Architecture, undistracted
  40. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  41. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  42. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  43. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  44. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
  45. Leaving the past behind: what became of the anal personality?
  46. Nigeria
  47. Philippines
  48. Iraq
  49. Yemen
  50. Turkey

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