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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on budget savings

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

The government and Labor have offered up competing packages of budget savings. The question of whether they can meet halfway will be a test for both sides.

Michelle Grattan tells University of Canberra acting vice-chancellor Frances Shannon that Bill Shorten’s savings measures were an effort to show that Labor has plans. “In a sense...

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Two million Aussies are experiencing high financial stress

  • Written by: Rebecca Reeve, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW Australia
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A new study shows two million Australians are experiencing high financial stress which prevents them from coping in difficult situations, for example, in paying unexpected expenses such as a big mobile phone bill or the fridge breaking down.

Adults face these sorts of scenarios frequently. When they arise, people usually turn to savings, a credit...

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Earthquakes don't kill, our collapsing structures do. So how can we build them to stay up?

  • Written by: Colin Caprani, Lecturer, Structural Engineering, Monash University

The magnitude 6.2 earthquake that struck central Italy this week has so far resulted in the deaths of at least 250 people. Victims range in age from infants to pensioners and it is a tragedy that we unfortunately witness too often.

However, as this is written, there are stories of survivors being pulled from the rubble nearly 24 hours after the...

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Electronic baby simulators could increase, not decrease, teen pregnancy

  • Written by: Maxine Gatt, Editor, The Conversation
imageThe programs aim to influence teens to think seriously about contraception and the consequences of their sexual choices.Mary Sauers/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Electronic baby simulators given to schoolgirls as part of a sex education program may make teenage girls more, not less, likely to become pregnant, a new Australian study has found.

The research, publis...

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  2. Friday essay: From Bowie to Bieber – the under-appreciated art of the music video
  3. Interview: Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and inventor of the home computer
  4. Why males are more likely to die from conception to old age
  5. Australia needs to lead again on democratic innovation
  6. Feral animals are running amok on Australia's islands – here's how to stop them
  7. Vital Signs: Jackson Hole could deliver the monetary change Xenophon wants
  8. Di Natale takes Hanson-Young out of asylum seeker area
  9. Grattan on Friday: Shorten wants to play hardball but can he dodge the 'opportunist' tag?
  10. Politics podcast: Derryn Hinch on becoming a senator
  11. Oil, gas and marine parks really can coexist in our oceans – here's how
  12. Scott Morrison has correctly diagnosed the problem, but needs to be flexible about solutions
  13. Touching, ferocious and poetic, the Miles Franklin shortlist is worthy of your attention
  14. How to manage weight issues with your teenager when you're not meant to talk about weight
  15. Turnbull steps in as promised, but don't expect a swift end to firefighter dispute
  16. Watch your language, Scott Morrison
  17. What you see is not always what you get: how virtual reality can manipulate our minds
  18. Why 100 years without slum housing in Australia is coming to an end
  19. A world with inequality everywhere is a moral and economic threat
  20. Why is sexual harassment in the AFP systemic? And can the culture be changed?
  21. Full response from SGS Economics and Planning
  22. FactCheck: does the average Australian family spend up to $22,000 every year on transport?
  23. Why obesity is not a 'left versus right' issue
  24. Australia should look overseas for ideas to increase its number of women MPs
  25. The Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised
  26. Sustainable housing's expensive, right? Not when you look at the whole equation
  27. 154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches the science
  28. An open letter to the Prime Minister on the climate crisis, from 154 scientists
  29. Explainer: arthrogryposis – the congenital disorder linked to Zika
  30. Rio 2016 was just the latest round in the long-running doping arms race
  31. Why STEM subjects and fashion design go hand in hand
  32. Despite China free trade agreement Australian beef producers are missing out
  33. A super test for Australia's political system
  34. Say hello to the Earth's nearest exoplanet neighbour: Proxima Centauri b
  35. Italy's deadly earthquake is the latest in a history of destruction
  36. Taxi driver compensation for Uber is unfair and poorly implemented
  37. Shorten offers deal on super while hardening stand on plebiscite
  38. Culture, free speech and celebrating Mao downunder
  39. Weekly Dose: flibanserin, the drug that gives women one extra sexually satisfying experience every two months
  40. Is that porn your child is watching online? How do you know?
  41. Long before Trump rolled in the deep, music and politics were entwined
  42. Clinton clearly ahead of Trump in US Presidential contest
  43. The price of victory: Caster Semenya again on trial
  44. Philippines cannot build a nation over the bodies of 100,000 dead in Duterte's 'war on drugs'
  45. Politics podcast: Karen Middleton on Albanese – Telling It Straight
  46. Gambling gallops on, stats reveal – but what can be done to curb its harms?
  47. Explainer: what is parliament's role in the marriage equality debate?
  48. Landmark study finds diversity lagging on Australian TV
  49. What construction jobs will look like when robots can build things
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