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Election 2016: the issues in non-metropolitan Australia

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
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Rural and regional Australia is a big place. That’s obvious enough. Still, it’s easy to forget that the communities and industries of non-metropolitan Australia are diverse. They face a variety of challenges and often have different, if not competing, stakes in government policy.

But what are the issues that deserve attention leading up...

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The f-word enters the campaign and trips up both major parties

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageBill Shorten, launching Labor's childcare policy, inadvertently set off a debate about the major party leaders' respective feminist credentials.AAP/Joel Carrett

The “f” word has made an unexpected entrance into the election campaign – and that “f” word is of course “feminist”.

The launch of Labor’s...

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How Australians Die: cause #3 - dementia (Alzheimer's)

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageDementia can affect the ability to perform tasks such as dressing, showering and eating.from shutterstock.com

This is the third in the How Australians Die series that focuses on the country’s top five causes of death and how we can drive down rates of these illnesses. Tomorrow’s piece will explore the fourth leading cause of death:...

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It's time for a new age of Enlightenment: why climate change needs 60,000 artists to tell its story

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA electric screen showing Shanghai Pudong financial area in a clear day, is seen amid heavy smog in Shanghai. What can art do to make climate change more real?Aly Song

In 2013, one of the world’s leading public relations experts, Bob Pickard, cried out to the climate world: “mobilise us!” In a frustrated op-ed, he listed 20 key...

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  2. Turnbull proposes an election debate 'in the media of our time'
  3. Sydney's wild weather shows home-owners are increasingly at risk
  4. Solved mystery of the deep-sea mushroom just raises new questions
  5. Ivan Sen's Goldstone: a taut, layered exploration of what echoes in the silences
  6. Computing helps with the complex design of modern architecture
  7. With friends like these: just how close are the Liberal Party and IPA?
  8. 'Antibiotic stewardship' to keep superbugs at bay just isn't happening
  9. Massive storms are pumping pollution into our oceans: time to clean up our cities
  10. Flood deaths are avoidable: don't go in the water
  11. Australian media deals with China – blind spot, or troubling hypocrisy?
  12. Election FactCheck: is crime getting worse in Australia?
  13. Donate to secure trusted information
  14. Where could Australia genuinely innovate?
  15. Lockout laws repeat centuries-old mistake of denying value of cities as messy places
  16. The vaudeville, impact and substance of political name-calling
  17. Safety – or profit? The booming business of CCTV and Safer Streets
  18. Malcolm or Bill: who would you invite to your barbecue?
  19. Lack of housing choice frustrates would-be downsizers
  20. How Australians Die: cause #2 – cancers
  21. How can we achieve reconciliation? Myall Creek offers valuable answers
  22. Past, present, future: how human evolution and climate are linked
  23. From dark gravity to phantom energy: what's driving the expansion of the universe?
  24. Why is teaching kids to draw not a more important part of the curriculum?
  25. Turnbull finds it easy to declare himself a feminist
  26. High-quality, affordable education at the heart of Labor's new early years policy
  27. Full response from a spokeswoman for Richard Di Natale
  28. The off-topic Conversation #96
  29. The role of climate change in eastern Australia's wild storms
  30. Election FactCheck: could a vote among under 30s in Australia possibly deliver a Greens prime minister?
  31. Rebate freeze will set GPs back $11 per general patient consultation, but they’re likely to charge them more
  32. There are better ways to help low paid workers than increasing minimum wage
  33. Björk, digital feminist diva, helps cure our wounds in a visceral Sydney show
  34. Health Check: is man flu real?
  35. Computing helps the study of infections on a global and local scale
  36. PolicyCheck: Labor's $3 billion child care plan
  37. Polls effectively tied with 'others' up
  38. Partisan divide over Senate crossbenchers
  39. So far so good for the Greens as the campaign passes the halfway mark
  40. How Australians Die: cause #1 – heart diseases and stroke
  41. Is a quota the key to getting Netflix and co. to spend more on Australian content?
  42. Eight ways we can improve Indigenous employment
  43. Higher supermarket prices for milk won't necessarily help farmers
  44. Aided by the new Senate rules, Nick Xenophon should have a happy election night
  45. Container deposit schemes work: so why is industry still opposed?
  46. RIP E.T. – most aliens will die young
  47. The story of the nosebleed decline of the newspaper industry told in pictures
  48. Government and opposition in a dead heat: Newspoll
  49. Major parties have a lot to answer for in the drift to minor players
  50. A hard rain’s gonna fall: deep water for the election campaign

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