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Election FactCheck: Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?

  • Written by: Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University

In the last calendar year, 300,000 new jobs were created; almost two-thirds of these were women. – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, speaking to the Menzies Research Centre, June 10, 2016.

As part of his pitch to voters about “jobs and growth”, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that 300,000 new jobs had been created in the last...

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How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish

  • Written by: Kylie Pitt, Associate Professor, Griffith University

When is a jellyfish plague not (necessarily) a jellyfish plague? When time-poor scientists selectively cite the literature to make it look like the oceans are flooded with jellies – even when it’s far from clear that they really are.

What does scientists being in a rush have to do with jellyfish populations? Let’s start from the...

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Australia should aim for a trade deal with the UK post Brexit

  • Written by: Alan Oxley, Chair, APEC Study Centre, expertise international trade law, economics, Asian regional development, RMIT University

Brexit may be bad for sharemarkets in the short term, but it could present an opportunity for more liberal trade in the long run. The Australian government is negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) but it may be better to put that on a very slow track because there are advantages in completing an FTA with the UK...

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Australia doesn't need a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – Ireland's experience shows why

  • Written by: Brian Tobin, Lecturer Below The Bar, NUI Galway
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Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote. Australia may follow suit if the Coalition keeps its commitment to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage by 2017, the yes vote wins, and subsequent legislation passes the parliament.

But as the Irish experience shows, putting a human...

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  1. Higher education gets short shrift in the election campaign, and we are all the poorer for it
  2. Health Check: is caffeine actually bad for kids?
  3. The same kind of 'silent majority' that spoke on Brexit may also be a force here
  4. 'The urban': a concept under stress in an interconnected world
  5. For the English, Brexit will mean economic pain
  6. Election 2016: will the infrastructure promises meet Australia's needs?
  7. A focus on economics (the dismal science) has produced a dismal election debate
  8. Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley seven times national average
  9. Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability
  10. Wind and solar PV have won the race – it's too late for other clean energy technologies
  11. Life lessons from the editing suite of Paul Cox
  12. How Australia played the world's first music on a computer
  13. Malcolm Turnbull invokes Brexit to reinforce his campaign, as Newspoll has Coalition moving ahead
  14. Labor costings pass, but scare tactics detract
  15. Labor costings: ALP deficit $16.5 billion higher over the budget period
  16. Malcolm Turnbull: don't risk change or protest
  17. Europe endless, or Europe ending?
  18. After Brexit, keep a close watch on Italy and its Five Star Movement
  19. Paying the piper and calling the tune? Following ClubsNSW's political donations
  20. Warning Sign: Trigger Warnings and Externalities
  21. Brexit rocks Australian sharemarket, worse to come
  22. Stella’s Girls Write Up tells kids good writing starts with having something to say
  23. Brexit stage right: what Britain's decision to leave the EU means for Australia
  24. Post-plebiscite conscience vote on same-sex marriage is not the risk
  25. Healthy microbes make for a resilient Great Barrier Reef
  26. Leave wins UK Brexit referendum 52-48
  27. What's wrong with the web and do we need to fix it?
  28. Are itchier insect bites more likely to make us sick?
  29. India's looking for a new central bank governor to perform a tough balancing act
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Medicare scare campaign
  31. Election FactCheck: is the Australian Sex Party right about religious organisations, tax and record-keeping?
  32. Not only do youth vote, they also represent their own
  33. Vital Signs: world markets wait for Brexit vote
  34. Robots are moving in to our homes, but there's no killer app
  35. Boondoggles, bellwethers and poli-tic-al parasites: revisiting political expressions
  36. Is there any hope for gambling reform in a new parliament?
  37. What do the Liberal and Labor election health promises mean for you?
  38. Australia's youth unemployment policy needs to be seen as a hand up, not a hand out
  39. Power to the people: how communities can help meet our renewable energy goals
  40. Friday essay: When Manet met Degas
  41. Driverless cars should sacrifice their passengers for the greater good -- just not when I'm the passenger
  42. Kitchen Science: beyond the sweetness of sugar
  43. Grattan on Friday: is Malcolm Turnbull inoculated against Labor's Medicare scare?
  44. There is more agreement between the parties on higher ed than slogans suggest
  45. It’s all about the money, honey
  46. Witless white noise, virulent ugliness: Brexit debate plays out its last scenes
  47. Why politicians and fictional characters have a lot in common
  48. Report urges India to allow overseas universities to open up campuses
  49. Uber, entrepreneur social ? Sans doute. L’ubérisation ? Pas forcément
  50. Treaty debate will only strengthen Indigenous recognition process

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