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How is the UK's Brexit referendum different from Australian referendums?

  • Written by: Ryan Goss, Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
imageThursday’s vote will only be the third-ever UK-wide referendum.Reuters/Toby Melville

Thursday’s referendum on whether the United Kingdom remains in or leaves the European Union may well take the country into uncharted political and constitutional territory. How will the Brexit referendum work? And what distinguishes it from referendums...

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Why the Prime Minister's Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul

  • Written by: Patrick Allington, Lecturer in English & Creative Writing, Flinders University
imageWhat are the criteria for a Prime Minister intervening in these awards? Literary reasons? Personal reasons? 'History war' reasons?Michael Tapp, CC BY-NC

Odd rules can help shape a writing prize’s long-term character in wonderful ways. But that’s not the case with the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, set up by the Rudd government...

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The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections

  • Written by: David Holmes, Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media Studies, Monash University
imageAAP/Lukas Coch

The endorsement for coal mining from the Labor-Coalition duopoly that the election campaign has seen in the last week makes the token appeals that have been made about tackling climate change even more disingenuous.

In this election campaign, the major parties have only brought up climate change when they have been pressed to do so at...

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Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship

  • Written by: Mike Sandiford, Professor of Geology, University of Melbourne

In case you had forgotten, electricity prices were a really big deal in the last federal election campaign in 2013, albeit often disguised under the rubric of axe the tax. Then Coalition spokesmen quite deliberately and repeatedly conflated the term carbon tax with electricity tax.

Clearly this was deemed acceptable in the court of public...

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  1. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  2. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  3. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  4. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  5. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  6. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  7. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  8. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  9. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  10. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  11. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  12. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  13. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  14. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  15. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  16. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  17. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  18. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  19. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  20. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  21. How should reading be taught in schools?
  22. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  23. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  24. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  25. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  26. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  27. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  28. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  29. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  30. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  31. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  32. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  33. Internships help students better manage their careers
  34. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  35. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  36. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  37. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  38. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  39. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  40. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  41. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  42. Response from Labor spokesperson
  43. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  44. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
  45. Eddie McGuire, Caroline Wilson and when 'playful banter' goes very, very wrong
  46. Here’s looking at: Edgar Degas’ Woman seated on the edge of the bath sponging her neck
  47. Health Check: what is the common cold and how do we get it?
  48. Lessons from the Depression era in how to lose government in a single term
  49. Large growth in student numbers is threatening sustainability of university system
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