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Election 2016: will the infrastructure promises meet Australia's needs?

  • Written by Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute
imageDespite Malcolm Turnbull's enthusiasm for public transport, the Coalition tends to favour road projects over rail.AAP/Lukas Coch

Come election time, voters could be forgiven for seeing transport infrastructure as a slush fund. Politicians insist they’re all for sound economic management, but we might well be cynical about how much that really...

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A focus on economics (the dismal science) has produced a dismal election debate

  • Written by John Wanna, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University

In past decades many federal elections (perhaps most) have been fought on economic issues and economic management – most recently the elections in 2013, 2010 and 2004 to name just a few. The 2016 federal election is again supposedly about economic prosperity, our economic transformation from being a commodity supplier to a modern service...

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Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley seven times national average

  • Written by Murray Chapman, Associate Professor, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia

Results of a new audit tell a tale that is, sadly, all-too-familiar across the Top End of Australia. Rates of Indigenous suicide in the Kimberley region over the last ten years were seven times the national average.

While the national rate is about 12 people dying by suicide for every 100,000 people, rates in the Kimberley region were 74 people per...

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

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