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Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test

  • Written by: Lindy Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Politics, UNSW Australia

We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. This series shines a light on the strategies, political alignment and policy platforms of ten lobby groups that can influence this election.


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Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: the US and China disappoint, driving the Aussie dollar up, and hopes of an Australian rate cut down.


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Friday essay: punk's legacy, 40 years on

  • Written by: David Nichols, Lecturer - Urban Planning, University of Melbourne

Like many youngsters of the late 70s, my first exposure to punk rock was memorable and social – perhaps, even, societal. It was some time in 1977, I was having dinner with my parents and siblings at my grandparents’ place, and the Sex Pistols were a featured story on Weekend Magazine, the ABC’s Sunday evening infotainment program....

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Driverless cars need to hit the road come rain, wind or shine

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
imageHumans are still better than machines at driving in extreme weather conditions, for now.Flickr/Terence Lim, CC BY-ND

Would you rather a robot car that can drive you anywhere and at anytime, or a car that throws in the towel as soon as a storm hits or one that flat out refuses to take you anywhere at night?

No other challenge is bigger for the many...

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  2. Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute
  3. Labor to release savings package
  4. Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power
  5. Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon
  6. Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election
  7. The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate
  8. Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens
  9. Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?
  10. The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal
  11. Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials
  12. Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?
  13. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  14. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  15. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  16. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  17. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  18. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  19. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  20. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  21. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  22. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  23. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  24. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  25. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  26. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  27. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  28. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  29. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  30. China and the US: when worlds collide
  31. Clinton clinches Democratic nomination after big wins in New Jersey and California
  32. How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?
  33. New DNA study confirms ancient Aborigines were the First Australians
  34. Weekly Dose: methotrexate, the anti-inflammatory drug that can kill if taken daily
  35. Will Australia's digital divide – fast for the city, slow in the country – ever be bridged?
  36. Democracy goes missing in action as politicians obfuscate, avoid and patronise
  37. Taking the city’s pulse: we need to link urban vitality back to the planet
  38. Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition presided over the most sustained fall in Australian living standards since records began?
  39. No big deal: there is little to fear from nanoparticles in food
  40. Computing changed the 'flow' of watching television
  41. Google wants to tap the second golden age of television
  42. Honour thy parents, lead thy nation: Turnbull and Shorten play to the family feeling
  43. Coal's formation is a window on an ancient world
  44. Business Briefing: how does Australia's policy costing body, the PBO, compare?
  45. Election 2016: the issues in non-metropolitan Australia
  46. The f-word enters the campaign and trips up both major parties
  47. How Australians Die: cause #3 - dementia (Alzheimer's)
  48. It's time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its story
  49. Explainer: How to find an exoplanet (part 1)
  50. Turnbull proposes an election debate 'in the media of our time'

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Portable Toilet Hygiene Standards Explained: Clean vs Sanitised vs Disinfected

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Options Available When a Company Faces Financial Distress

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Australia’s Best Walking Trails and the Shoes You Need to Tackle Them

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Why Pre-Purchase Building Inspections Are Essential Before Buying a Home in Australia

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