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Michelle Grattan: a brief history of Australian budgets

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

The 2016 federal budget will not only need to stack up economically, but it has to be a strong launching pad for an election.

Michelle Grattan, chief political correspondent with The Conversation takes a brief look back at the memorable moments from past budgets....

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Vital Signs: deflation Down Under?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
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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: Australian inflation shocks, making for higher expectations of...

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Friday essay: the ugly history of cosmetic surgery

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Reality television shows based on surgical transformations, such as The Swan and Extreme Makeover, were not the first public spectacles to offer women the ability to compete for the chance to be beautiful.

In 1924, a competition ad in the New York Daily Mirror asked the affronting question “Who is the homeliest girl in New York?” It...

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  12. Big ticket infrastructure projects may woo voters, but it's value-for-money that matters
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  15. State by state, it's still Malcolm Turnbull's election to lose
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  18. Disease evolution: the origins of anorexia and how it's shaped by culture and time
  19. Forgetting Martin Bryant: what to remember when we talk about Port Arthur
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  24. Shades of Abbott as Turnbull government attacks on climate, digs in on asylum seekers
  25. Politics podcast: Robert Simms on the evolution of the Greens
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