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Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon

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

The Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) is to this election what the Palmer United Party (PUP) was to the 2013 one. It is potentially the next big new thing in the Senate.

PUP in 2013 won three Senate seats – in Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia – and one in the House of Representatives. NXT, on current polling, is set for at least three...

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Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election

  • Written by: Anne Tiernan, Professor, School of Government and International Relations; Director, Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University

How important will minor parties and independents be in this federal election? And how significant is the latest Newspoll result, showing a record 15% of those surveyed said they’d rather vote for an independent or “other party” than the Coalition, Labor or the Greens?

Watch Griffith University’s Anne Tiernan and Duncan...

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The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate

  • Written by: David Ingles, Senior Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
imageA famous US article accused a generation of retirees of being greedy. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

In 1988, Henry Fairlie famously wrote an article in The New Republic accompanied by a cover entitled “Greedy Geezers”. The article suggested that the elderly were living too well at the expense of the young.

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Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens

  • Written by: Marc C-Scott, Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University

The Seven Network has announced it will offer a paid subscription service via an app as part of its Rio Olympics coverage this year.

This will make Seven the first free-to-air broadcaster in Australia to charge for broadcasting sport.

This is a new approach to the station’s coverage of the Rio Olympics. Last year, it said the coverage would...

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

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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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