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WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

The WA state election will be held in two months on 11 March. A ReachTEL poll, conducted Thursday night from a sample of 1530, has Labor leading 52-48, unchanged since October. However, One Nation has been included for the first time, and received 10.8% of the primary vote.

Not surprisingly, One Nation’s high vote has diminished all other...

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Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
imageSussan Ley maintains that her entitlement claims were within the rules.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Sussan Ley has resigned as health minister following allegations she misused her travel entitlements and breached ministerial standards.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Ley judged resignation to be the appropriate course of action in the interests of the...

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Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain

  • Written by: Christine Helliar, Professor School of Commerce, University of South Australia
imageA blockchain could be used to record all of our interactions with the government.Shutterstock

Governments across the globe are experimenting with the blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, as a way to reduce costs and provide more accountability to the public. In Europe alone, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and Estonia are experimenting with...

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Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.

  • Written by: Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
imageCoffee, one of our favourite sources of caffeine.Ian Musgrave

Sleep is good. This is one thing both experts and the person in the street can agree on about that knitter up of the unravelled sleeve of care [1]. Getting decent sleep not only leaves you feeling refreshed, but lack of good quality sleep is associated not just with fatigue and lower...

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  2. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  3. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
  4. What is heart failure? It's not as common a cause of death as reports would have us believe
  5. How the insights of the Large Hadron Collider are being made open to everyone
  6. Is FIFA expanding the football World Cup for the good of the game?
  7. Are our busy doctors and nurses losing empathy for patients?
  8. For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
  9. Myuran Sukumaran's voice in his first exhibition is raw, premature and unsettling
  10. Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill
  11. We need to find new ways to measure the Australian labour force
  12. Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact
  13. How to manage Russia becomes one of the most pressing questions in US, and world, affairs
  14. Shorter or longer tennis matches: what's the right balance?
  15. Putin, the political technologist
  16. Explainer: why has Rod Culleton been disqualified from the Senate?
  17. Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
  18. 'I'm not a mind reader': understanding your partner's thoughts can be both good and bad
  19. Expenses reform is easy and essential – the only thing lacking is politicians' resolve to do it
  20. Beyond La La Land: the top ten toe-tapping film musicals
  21. Life in a post-flying Australia, and why it might actually be ok
  22. There is no silver bullet to stop fraudsters
  23. Trump and Showering Golden
  24. Note to Centrelink: Australian workers' lives have changed
  25. Hospitals feel the heat too from extreme weather and its health impacts
  26. Bright Lights – a TV farewell to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
  27. School dress 'debate' is a nonsense: just have a range of options, and let students choose
  28. Children learn empathy growing up, but can we train adults to have more of it?
  29. James Hird's suspected drug overdose: invasive reporting breaches a right to privacy
  30. Can poetry stop a highway? Wielding words in the battle over Roe 8
  31. Old floods show Brisbane's next big wet might be closer than we think
  32. Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors
  33. Book Review: Trillion Dollar Baby
  34. How virtual reality technology is changing the way students learn
  35. 10 years on, the iPhone has revolutionised life and freed us from multiple tyrannies
  36. Are the ingredients in Peppa Pig sunscreen safe?
  37. Stamping out political rorts requires a cultural change, not more bodies to police it
  38. What's behind Timor-Leste terminating its maritime treaty with Australia
  39. A 'tougher' citizenship test should not be used to further divide and exclude
  40. Five ways kids can benefit from being outside this summer break
  41. One year on, we should remember David Bowie as both genius and flawed human
  42. Why Centrelink should adopt a light touch when data matching
  43. Wheat, sheep or Elvis Presley? Rural Australia has had to change its tune
  44. Can Facebook help you make your home more sustainable?
  45. Do art and literature cultivate empathy?
  46. Sussan Ley and the Gold Coast apartment: murky rules mean age of entitlement isn't over for MPs
  47. Health check: is it safe to microwave your food?
  48. The off-topic Conversation #115
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