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Politically, the government seems on a hiding to nothing in the penalty rates battle

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

On some days it’s best not to venture out. For Malcolm Turnbull, Monday was such a day. There was no way a visit to Bottles of Australia in the Canberra suburb of Hume was going to end well.

Turnbull was there to talk energy policy. But each of only four questions he took bounced off the day’s shocker Newspoll, with its 55-45% Labor...

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Explainer: what is 'precipitable water', and why does it matter?

  • Written by: Karl Braganza, Climate Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
imageGet ready for heavier rain.Shutterstock

As the planet warms, rainfall and weather patterns will change. As temperatures rise, the amount of water in the atmosphere will increase. Some areas will become wetter, while others, like southern Australia, will likely be drier.

One measure of atmospheric moisture is called “precipitable water”....

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The long journey from a refugee camp to an Australian school

  • Written by: Misty Adoniou, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
imageChildren at a refugee camp in Greece. Frederic Seguin/Newzulu

The final year of school is tough for a lot of kids. So much seems to be riding on this culmination of 12 years of study.

When Rema was in Year 12 in an Australian school she found it particularly difficult. She is a very clever girl. She had studied hard and her long held ambition was...

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How to manage self-motivated, intelligent workers

  • Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Socio-Technical Studies, Griffith University
imageKnowledge workers hate being micromanaged.www.shutterstock.com

There’s an emerging type of worker who usually knows more about their job than anyone else in the organisation and is not likely to suffer fools gladly. This type of worker is difficult to manage as they don’t consider themselves to be subordinates in the traditional sense.

P...

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  4. Australians aren't as Islamophobic as we're led to believe
  5. Ghost ships: why are World War II naval wrecks vanishing in Indonesia?
  6. Trade data shows Australia can get more out of a deal with the EU than the UK
  7. Business investment is weak, but an unfunded company tax cut won't fix it
  8. Merging our brains with machines won't stop the rise of the robots
  9. Weekly Dose: GHB, a party drug that's easy to overdose on but was once used in childbirth
  10. The typical university student is no longer 18, middle-class and on campus – we need to change thinking on 'drop-outs'
  11. Why we need an 'energy Landcare' to tackle rising power prices
  12. Coalition trails 45-55% and Turnbull's ratings sink in Newspoll
  13. Working for the (Australia Post) man
  14. Turnbull turns shock-and-awe on Abbott
  15. Explainer: What is VX nerve agent and how does it work?
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  17. Booksellers, the alt-right and Milo Yiannopoulos
  18. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan and Deep Saini on penalty rate cuts
  19. Hairdressers in rural Australia end up being counsellors too
  20. Voters' dislike of politics makes fixed four-year parliamentary terms look appealing
  21. Perth's Museum of Water documents our intimate relationship with a precious resource
  22. Here's what smart cities do to stay ahead
  23. Netanyahu's visit in perspective: Australia has more important relationships than Israel
  24. Here's what must be done to detect, disrupt and deter phoenix activity in Australia
  25. Fourteen penalties: Sydney’s A-League derby off the pitch
  26. Why researchers have a duty to try and influence policy
  27. Our power grid is crying out for capacity, but should we open the gas valves?
  28. Vital Signs: there's never been a tougher time to be a central banker
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  32. Our big cities are engines of inequality, so how do we fix that?
  33. Tony Abbott says government's challenge is 'to be worth voting for'
  34. Grattan on Friday: Penalty rates – Shorten's own goal becomes Turnbull's political problem
  35. Politics podcast: Hugh Saddler on Australia's energy crisis
  36. Cutting Sunday penalty rates will hurt young people the most
  37. How do we keep gardening in the face of a changing climate?
  38. YouTube star PewDiePie rails against 'the media', but he's a part of it too now
  39. Sunday penalty rates cut opens new fight between government and opposition
  40. Explainer: how Australia decides who is a genuine refugee
  41. 'I can live with either one': Palestine, Israel and the two-state solution
  42. In the rooms of power and ordinary people, Bligh's banking appointment is a masterstroke
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