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Malcolm Turnbull: a prime minister on probation in search of a mandate

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMalcolm Turnbull has achieved his lifelong ambition of being prime minister, but can he hold onto it?AAP/Lukas Coch

Much of politics is comparative. Malcolm Turnbull, awaiting judgement from a fickle electorate, told Four Corners that if the Liberals had not changed leaders “we would’ve lost the election very resoundingly”.

It was...

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Friday essay: the Battle of the Somme and the death of martial glory

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University

At exactly 7:30 in the morning, 100 years ago today, thousands of British soldiers went “over the top” towards enemy lines in the lowlands surrounding the French river Somme.

They didn’t run forwards up the slopes towards the German trenches when the whistles broke the morning silence. The generals had calculated that, with each...

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Black market jobs cost Australia billions and youth are at the coalface

  • Written by: Shirley Jackson, PhD Candidate in Political Economy, University of Melbourne

Young people, job creation and taxation have all been at the centre of the federal election campaign; yet almost nothing has been said about one of the sleeper issues these have in common - the cash-in-hand economy.

Youth unemployment is typically twice the national unemployment rate. Millennials are finding it harder to secure full-time work after...

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Your wireless footprint can help police catch a thief

  • Written by: Maxim Chernyshev, Cyber Security Researcher, Edith Cowan University
imageLet your wireless fingerprint help catch a thief.Shutterstock/Sergey Mironov

With billions of wireless devices shipped across the globe every year, it is safe to assume that most of us carry at least one wireless gadget with us much of the time.

The number of wearables to be shipped this year alone is expected to exceed 100 million. Interestingly,...

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  1. Explainer: what are women's options for giving birth?
  2. Politics for the planet: why nature and wildlife need their own seats at the UN
  3. Grattan on Friday: Shorten struggles as campaign winds down
  4. WA-xit: history beckons
  5. Brexit could leave the European Union struggling with its climate targets
  6. Britain’s 'Bregret' offers timely lessons for Australian voters this weekend
  7. Election explainer: why do I have to vote, anyway?
  8. The shame game: why it's time to end the ‘mummy wars’
  9. Election FactCheck: Does the government spend $3 billion each year on the offshore asylum seeker detention system?
  10. Anti-discrimination law exemptions don't strike the right balance between rights and freedoms
  11. Slanguage and ‘dinky di’ Aussie talk in elections
  12. Only serious reform will avoid more exits from the European Union
  13. Shorten the consensus leader unites a fractured Labor, but it may not quite be enough
  14. Speaking with: ‘Poll Bludger’ William Bowe in the final week of the election campaign
  15. Video didn't kill the radio star – she's hosting a podcast
  16. States will ultimately pay for federal promises, no matter who wins Saturday's election
  17. Labor and Coalition need to go further than R D and startups to create innovation
  18. The Earth's biodiversity could be much greater than we thought
  19. Glioblastoma: why these brain cancers are so difficult to treat
  20. Paris climate targets aren't enough, but we can close the gap
  21. As more vulnerabilities are discovered. Is it time to uninstall antivirus software?
  22. Turnbull to promise 'a step up in political culture'
  23. There'll be a lot more besides Turnbull versus Shorten to watch on Saturday
  24. What's the Victorian government's dispute with the CFA about? And how will it affect the election?
  25. Why rents will rise under Labor's negative gearing proposal
  26. What now for Australian research in a post-Brexit world?
  27. Charging for credit and debit card use may become the norm under new rules
  28. A fringe group no more, the Greens put the frighteners on the two major parties
  29. Weekly Dose: new morning after pill makes it difficult to choose which to take
  30. Treasure from trash: how mining waste can be mined a second time
  31. Six ways to improve equity in Australian universities
  32. How the relationship between social media and traditional media has shaped this election
  33. If democratic citizenship is a universal right, how can we so neglect citizenship education?
  34. Coalition likely to win following Brexit
  35. Four game-changing lessons from Eating in Stockholm
  36. Policy primers: what you need to know before election day
  37. Election 2016: how well are the major parties meeting the needs of rural and regional Australia?
  38. Business Briefing: Zombie measures, crackdowns and Brexit worries
  39. Google's murky Washington lobbying is making Apple look good
  40. The system often forgets children of people with cancer: here's how to help them
  41. The next solar revolution could replace fossil fuels in mining
  42. Does a planet need plate tectonics to develop life?
  43. It's time for the 'science of sensibility' to return
  44. Engie's Hazelwood super profit highlights our tangled web of energy policy
  45. Coalition squeezes welfare lemon again
  46. Coalition targets welfare in $2.3b pre-election savings pitch
  47. Bill Shorten says the lesson of Brexit is that people shouldn't be left behind
  48. The off-topic Conversation #99
  49. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion more per year into Medicare than Labor did?
  50. To eliminate misogyny, the AFL needs social change, not just crisis management

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