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IMF embraces the redback, but China reforms must go on

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imageChina wants the yuan to gain the same international standing as the US dollar.EPA/AAP

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has decided to include the renminbi (RMB) in its basket of reserve currencies. The RMB, or yuan, has joined the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen to become the fifth member of the basket...

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Politics podcast: Bill Ferris on innovation

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imageInnovation Australia Chairman Bill FerrisPaul Millar/AAP Image

The newly appointed chair of Innovation Australia, Bill Ferris, talks about his early experiences investing in start-ups in the 1970s, the need for Australia to bring its ideas and inventions to market, and the way to tackle a business culture that fears failure.

Michelle Grattan does...

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Tom Roberts anyone? A national survey finds the line in art appreciation

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imageTom Roberts is an iconic Australian artist. Who does that icon represent?Opening of the first parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, 9 May 1901, Tom Roberts, 1903. Courtesy of the NGA.

On December 4, The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) opens its exhibition of Tom Roberts' work as the centrepiece of a major re-hang of the gallery’s...

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  18. Australia's leader sets his sights low in opening conference gambit
  19. Take no prisoners: the Paris climate talks need to move beyond 'fairness'
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  22. Australia needs a fresh start on climate policy: authority
  23. Health Check: the low-down on trans fats
  24. Nobel Laureate Douglass North's work leaves a strong legacy for economics
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  26. From India, with love: cultural appropriation and 50 years of Light on Yoga
  27. Domestic violence and Facebook: harassment takes new forms in the social media age
  28. Marketing the climate summit by 'greening' the Eiffel Tower
  29. Einstein's folly: how the search for a unified theory stumped him to his dying day
  30. State by state, 'safe access zones' around clinics are shielding women from abortion protesters
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  36. Be sure to read the fine print in Turnbull's mid-year economic update
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