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Australia could be about to lose its AAA rating, and here's why

  • Written by Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University

Australia’s AAA credit rating was under pressure even before the election and is now looking decidedly shaky. Ratings agency Standard & Poors has moved Australia’s rating outlook from “stable” to “negative”, due to debt and a poor chance of budget repair.

This follows warnings from the other major credit...

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Please don’t explain: Hanson 2.0 and the war on experts

  • Written by Patrick Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Deakin University
imagePauline Hanson, Michael Gove, and Donald TrumpDragons Abreast Australia; Policy Exchange; Michael Vadon/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Along with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl,” Pauline Hanson has long stood as a grim reminder that the second half of the 1990s was much worse than the first half. And now, 18 years later, Hanson finds herself...

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Cheerleaders of the press don't win elections like they used to

  • Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
imageIs Rupert Murdoch's influence on the Australian political landscape what it used to be?AAP/Paul Miller

The Murdoch press played its self-assigned role of shamelessly cheerleading for the conservatives in the election. But is Rupert’s influence quite what it used to be?

To answer that, we need to disentangle two threads that in the past have...

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There's still much to learn by visiting the giant planet Jupiter

  • Written by Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics Researcher, UNSW Australia
imageAn artist's impression of Juno above Jupiter's pole.NASA/JPL-Caltech

After a five-year journey, NASA’s Juno spacecraft this week reached Jupiter and was successfully inserted into its orbit.

This is only the second spacecraft after the Galileo mission in 1995 to enter into orbit around the planet, the largest in our solar system.

Over the next...

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  1. Understanding the NDIS: many eligible people with disabilities are likely to miss out
  2. Understanding the NDIS: will parents of newly diagnosed children with disability be left in the dark?
  3. Co-living is demolishing the line between work and life
  4. Why Australians should care about the South Pole
  5. Bloody good TV: how Rake changed Australian television
  6. Barnaby Joyce gives some protection on Turnbull's vulnerable right flank
  7. Queensland postal votes could give Coalition majority government
  8. The lessons to be learned now the ABC's pulled its 'inaccurate' Wi-Fried program
  9. Weekly Dose: ice and speed, the drugs that kept soldiers awake and a president young
  10. Workers are taking on more risk in the gig economy
  11. Renewable jet fuel could be growing on Australia's iconic gum trees
  12. Why drug-detection dogs are sniffing up the wrong tree
  13. Explainer: why stock market panic can signal a good time to buy
  14. Facing bumps, but on the right track: Indonesia's democratic progress
  15. Understanding the NDIS: a history of disability welfare from 'deserving poor' to consumers in control
  16. Understanding the NDIS: how does the scheme work and am I eligible for funding?
  17. Defiant Hanson will test a Coalition government
  18. Business Briefing: are Hanson, NXT and the Nationals bad for business?
  19. Research fraud: the temptation to lie – and the challenges of regulation
  20. Christos Tsiolkas, the 'blasphemous' artist and Barracuda
  21. If machines can beat us at games, does it make them more intelligent than us?
  22. Koalas are feeling the heat, and we need to make some tough choices to save our furry friends
  23. Turnbull remains less than pitch-perfect
  24. By Jupiter, what we know of the gas giant so far
  25. We must convince people we believe in Medicare: Turnbull
  26. From scolds to talking underwater : Policing women's voices
  27. Are shipping containers really the answer for affordable housing? Time for a reality check
  28. Labor's 'Mediscare' campaign capitalised on Coalition history of hostility towards Medicare
  29. Politics podcast: James Pearson on the knife-edge result and business confidence
  30. How Uber opens cities only to close them
  31. In a world of low rates, what else can the RBA and central banks do?
  32. In rare cases, a dog's lick can carry more than just love
  33. Caught short: we need to talk about public toilets
  34. Companies may be misleading investors by not openly assessing the true value of assets
  35. Playing politics with your future: what a hung parliament could mean for super
  36. Maggie's Plan: screwball comedy meets witty academic satire
  37. A guide to the nanotechnology used in the average home
  38. Too much salt and sugar and not enough exercise – why Australians' health is lagging
  39. Finally, a proven way to keep great white sharks at arm's length
  40. Despite experts' fears, Australia should be moving to electronic online voting
  41. This parliament – hung or unhung – will bring us another continuous election campaign
  42. 'Mediscare' campaign shows the power of negative advertising
  43. FactCheck Q A: are Indigenous women 34-80 times more likely than average to experience violence?
  44. We can't save all wildlife, so conservation laws need to change
  45. Why dick doodles on the ballot paper are their own election statement
  46. Health Check: what are the risks of drinking before you know you're pregnant?
  47. Volkswagen’s record settlement payout: treating the symptom not the disease
  48. The off-topic Conversation #100
  49. A new era may be dawning again for radical right populists in Austria and Europe
  50. Even if he keeps the top job, Malcolm Turnbull's troubles have only just begun

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