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Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians

  • Written by Bill Fogarty, Senior Fellow, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University
imageQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk (2L) defended the government's decision to withdraw teachers from Aurukun's school following the latest incidence of youth violence.Matthew Nicholls/AAP

The continual construction of Indigenous Australians as “failures” in the media and in policy is having unintended consequences.

Media reporting a...

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Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Large numbers of people may just number one box for the Senate, which would mean the last seats in a state could be won with low primary votes, according to an analysis by the Australia Institute.

Polling done for the Institute, a progressive think tank, found one third of voters (33%) believed the minimum number of boxes a voter had to number when...

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Labor to release savings package

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The opposition will attempt to strengthen its economic credentials by announcing on Friday a package of savings to help pay for its policies and improve the budget bottom line.

It will include both new savings and Labor’s decisions on so-called “zombie” measures that the government has not been able to get through the parliament.

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Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senator Nick Xenophon is the South Australian “vote magnet”. He is making both the Coalition and Labor nervous as he spreads his brand at this election. His probable success promises not just more Senate seats for the nascent party but a powerful role in the new Senate for its leader.

Xenophon tells Michelle Grattan he...

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

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