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Keeping up or holding back? The regulation challenge for government

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imageNew technology such as Bitcoin provides a 21st challenge for government regulators.Reuters/Brendan McDermid

Australia’s new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has announced what he calls a “21st-century government”. The Conversation continues its series focusing on what such a government should look like, looking at business...

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Narcos and the Anal Taboo

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There was only one blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reason I bothered watching Netflix’s Narcos.

Anal sex.

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A semi-regular delight in my inbox is messages from friends, acquaintances - sometimes people I don’t know even a little - who saw something salacious, something depraved, something so incredibly debaucherous that they were left...

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Our problem is spending, not revenue, says Treasurer Morrison

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imageTreasurer Scott Morrison flagged he will leave to colleagues the international meetings he would normally attend to focus on being "a home treasurer".Paul Miller/AAP

New Treasurer Scott Morrison has declared the budget has a spending problem not a revenue one and said tax reform must help people “work, save and invest” - the...

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  5. Can foreign policy be freed from populist politicking?
  6. Technology will play a starring role in Australia's future story
  7. The Horse: reframing the history of human progress
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  10. What will changes to the national curriculum mean for schools? Experts respond
  11. Can the 'real Malcolm' survive being PM?
  12. More is less? Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
  13. Turnbull must break with past attempts to keep the future at bay
  14. Pyne leaves education having failed to sell a vision for the past
  15. Publish or perish culture encourages scientists to cut corners
  16. How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable
  17. Redefining the (able) body: disabled performers make their presence felt at the Fringe
  18. Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistake the poison for the cure
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  23. Pope works to reconcile Catholic teaching, population pressures and sustainable development
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  25. Using family trusts to minimise tax is on the nose: so why are policy makers silent?
  26. The late Gordon Darling and the gentle art of philanthropy
  27. The war on online advertising is intensifying, and the ads are losing
  28. The wash-up from the Canning byelection
  29. Australia's VET system needs fundamental change – here's how it can be fixed
  30. All eyes on the Aussie dollar as Australia stalks recession
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  33. Aged-care funding creates dependency and lowers well-being of residents
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  37. Senate crossbencher's advice to new PM: come and walk the red carpet, Malcolm
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  39. Was it but a dream? Post Brandis, we need a reordering of national arts priorities
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