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Michelle Grattan on the government's emergency plan, climate change, and Bettina Arndt

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

Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher about the week in politics, including the implementation of an emergency plan to tackle the spread of coronavirus, the major parties’ policies on climate change, national security and the Senate motion to strip Bettina Arndt of her Order of Australia.

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Last summer's fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here's what has happened since

  • Written by: Lee Baumgartner, Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University
Last summer's fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here's what has happened sinceGraeme McCrabb/AAP

As this summer draws to a close, it marks just over a year since successive fish death events at Menindee in Lower Darling River made global headlines.

Two independent investigations found high levels of blue-green algae and low oxygen levels in the water caused the deaths. Basically, the fish suffocated.


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It's now a matter of when, not if, for Australia. This is how we're preparing for a jump in coronavirus cases

  • Written by: Katherine Gibney, NHMRC early career fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
It's now a matter of when, not if, for Australia. This is how we're preparing for a jump in coronavirus casesShutterstock

While countries around the globe have been taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, it has now been reported in 37 countries outside China.

As of February 26, close to 3,000 cases and 43 deaths had been recorded outside China. In Australia, we’ve so far seen 23 cases across...

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Many Scots want independence from the United Kingdom. How might that play out in a post-Brexit world?

  • Written by: Simon Tormey, Professor of Politics, University of Bristol
Many Scots want independence from the United Kingdom. How might that play out in a post-Brexit world?AAP/EPA/Robert Perry

Of the many issues thrown up by Brexit, one of the most pressing is the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. Brexit was in large measure a revolt by a certain section of English and Welsh opinion against transnational elites, immigration and imagined loss of identity. Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain.

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