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Own goals and defeat of union legislation give Scott Morrison a horror week

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

The strange affair of Angus Taylor and the allegedly doctored document of dubious provenance he used to try to discredit Sydney’s lord mayor Clover Moore and her council over climate change is replete with lessons for political players.

One: avoid gratuitous point scoring, but if you must do it, make sure your facts are correct.

Two: when you...

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To really fix Victoria's mental health system, we'll need to bridge the state/Commonwealth divide

  • Written by: Anthony Jorm, Professor emeritus, University of Melbourne
To really fix Victoria's mental health system, we'll need to bridge the state/Commonwealth divideThe Victorian government has pledged to adopt all recommendations made in the interim report of the state's mental health royal commission.From shutterstock.com

After several months of hearings, and many harrowing stories painting a picture of a system in dire need of reform, the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System has today...

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how romance scammers make you fall in love with them

  • Written by: Natalie Gately, Criminology Courses Coordinator, Edith Cowan University

Maria Exposto, a Sydney grandmother who fell victim to a romance scam and became an unwitting drug mule, couldn’t have known what was before her when she left Australia to sign documents for her fiancé so he could retire and marry her.

At 50-years-old, Exposto had fallen for a widowed special forces soldier doing his bit for his...

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courts flex new muscle to protect plant breeders' intellectual property

  • Written by: David Jefferson, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
courts flex new muscle to protect plant breeders' intellectual propertyNot all blueberries are the same. A variety called Ridley 1111 is at the centre of an important lawsuit for intellectual property and plants.Shutterstock

A few weeks ago, the Federal Court of Australia ordered a farmer in New South Wales to pay A$290,000 to a blueberry-producing company because he had grown and sold a proprietary variety of the...

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  11. Grace Millane's murder trial shows social attitudes continue to minimise gendered violence
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  20. Now we know. The Reserve Bank has spelled out what it will do when rates approach zero
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  30. Kevin Rudd urges Australia to reduce its economic dependence on China
  31. Scott Morrison stands by energy minister Angus Taylor, who faces police probe
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