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A New Democratic Enlightenment?

  • Written by John Keane, Professor of Politics, University of Sydney

This is the slightly rewritten text of my address to the opening plenary session, ‘New Enlightenment Neue Aufklärung’, at the European Forum Alpbach, Alpbach, Austria, 28 August 2016.

imageEuropean Forum Alpbach, Austria

Ladies and Gentlemen, Citizens and Citizenesses:

The disintegration of Europe that the world is witnessing, and in some...

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How heterosexual couples are protesting marriage inequality

  • Written by Becky Batagol, Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
imageHeterosexual couples who believe in marriage equality, and the civil celebrants who marry them, are using wedding ceremonies to protest marriage law in Australia.shutterstock

As the spring wedding season warms up, increasing numbers of heterosexual couples are using their wedding ceremonies to call for a change to Australia’s marriage law.

Aust...

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Will the hack of 500 million Yahoo accounts get everyone to protect their passwords?

  • Written by David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageHow to Hack YahooThe Hacker News

Yahoo has confirmed that account information of around 500 million users was stolen by hackers in 2014. This hack, which Yahoo blamed on a foreign “state-sponsored actor”, could have been part of, or following on from, an earlier breach in 2012 in which 450,000 accounts were compromised.

Other than the...

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Let's meet in the middle on schools funding, not continue the trench warfare

  • Written by Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageShould special deals with states and non-government sectors be removed?David Mariuz/AAP

Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham dropped a bombshell on state governments on Thursday, just 24 hours before the Education Council meeting in Adelaide.

Declaring that he wants to end the “corruption” at the heart of the Gonski model, he...

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  1. What do the newspapers _really_ tell us about the lock hospital histories?
  2. Gonzo: we need to talk about young men and porn
  3. The internet helps us translate 'social capital' to economic benefits
  4. The price of connection: 'surveillance capitalism'
  5. Suspending welfare payments unlikely to boost school attendance
  6. Banks can target service before sales to avoid a banking royal commission
  7. BP in the Bight: why the planned oil spill response is too slow to protect the coast
  8. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's approach to welfare
  9. Business moves on climate as the Paris Agreement gets closer to sealing the deal
  10. Policy versus populism: what can we expect from the first presidential debate?
  11. What's behind Indonesian authorities' desire to control LGBT sexuality?
  12. Vital Signs: Lowe makes the case for 'good' government debt
  13. Friday essay: the Australian Mosque
  14. Gonski model was corrupted, but Labor and Coalition are both to blame
  15. Intelligence review must tackle anxiety around information-gathering, privacy and security
  16. Everything you wanted to know about US elections but were afraid to ask
  17. The more work-life balance we have the more we want: global study
  18. Australian investors want bankable projects that help us adapt to climate change
  19. Why psychology lost its soul: everything comes from the brain
  20. How the Australian galah got its name in a muddle
  21. Speaking with: Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all
  22. A green and happy holiday? You can have it all
  23. Grattan on Friday: Morrison reminds everyone Porter is walking in his steps
  24. The hard sell of stem cells: we need a better way to protect patients from harm
  25. Explainer: why the Japanese economy is stuck in a holding pattern
  26. Liberal director Nutt cold on foreign donation ban
  27. The Great Barrier Reef's 'new normal' is a forlorn sight
  28. Why Christine Lagarde says women are the answer to the world's economic growth problem
  29. Beyond the war of words: how might the Australian media's coverage of China affect social cohesion?
  30. Race to the White House: foreign policy disputes, first presidential debate, and Trump Jnr's tweet
  31. We can already see how a 'debate' about love will lead to violence and hate
  32. ASEAN goal to eradicate drugs in the region leads to disregard for human life
  33. More at-risk young people are turning to private VET providers
  34. No, cutting your car's carbon emissions won't cost you more
  35. The revolving door: why politicians become lobbyists, and lobbyists become politicians
  36. Birmingham prepares for fundamental changes to Labor's Gonski funding model
  37. Explainer: the nine swing states that will decide the next US president
  38. DNA reveals a new history of the First Australians
  39. What is infant reflux and will it get better?
  40. Explainer: what is fat studies?
  41. It takes a community to raise a startup
  42. Turnbull to UN: Climate change threatens 'the future of generations'
  43. No, fitness trackers do not make you fat and they don't make losing weight harder
  44. Business Briefing: we're overusing and underestimating 'disruption'
  45. FactCheck: Is 30% of Northern Territory farmland and 22% of Tasmanian farmland foreign-owned?
  46. Weekly Dose: LSD – dangerous, mystical or therapeutic?
  47. Resettlement is the test for Malcolm Turnbull on refugees
  48. In an age of rhetoric, Australian politics is missing the American flair
  49. The view from inside the Beltway
  50. Gen Y carers don't want a free ride, so welfare reform shouldn't single them out
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