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We must convince people we believe in Medicare: Turnbull

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

Malcolm Turnbull has taken “absolutely full responsibility” for his criticised election campaign, and declared the Coalition must rebuild public trust in itself on the issue of Medicare.

Turnbull said the fact people were willing to switch their vote on the basis of Labor’s “grotesque lie”, claiming the government...

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From scolds to talking underwater : Policing women's voices

  • Written by: Michelle Smith, Research fellow in English Literature, Deakin University
imageA New England woman wearing a scold's bridle (1885). Wikipedia

Why is it that when a woman talks, she is more likely to be understood as excessively vocal, irritating, or a nag as compared with when a man speaks?

Eddie McGuire recently joked about drowning journalist and football commentator Caroline Wilson. Sam Newman’s contribution to the...

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Are shipping containers really the answer for affordable housing? Time for a reality check

  • Written by: Vidyasagar Potdar, Senior Research Fellow, School of Information Systems, Curtin University
imageThere's a lot to consider before you can be sure a shipping container home is your best affordable housing option.Nicolás Boullosa/flickr, CC BY

Housing affordability issues in Australia have resulted in people looking for alternative ways to build accommodation more cheaply. A recent worldwide trend has been to convert shipping containers...

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Labor's 'Mediscare' campaign capitalised on Coalition history of hostility towards Medicare

  • Written by: Jim Gillespie, Deputy Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Associate Professor in Health Policy, University of Sydney

The Australian Labor Party’s Medicare campaign has been dubbed an election changer.

While outsourcing data management and billing systems raises issues of confidentiality and access, the possible changes would not affect access to Medicare. To this extent, criticisms that Labor ran a misleading campaign have some basis.

But scare campaigns...

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