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Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortem

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan on the government's drought relief package and Labor's election post-mortemGrattan: the drought relief package will benefit agriculture-related businesses, but not mom-and-pop businesses in regional towns.Dan Peled/AAP

University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Geoff Crisp and Michelle Grattan discuss the government’s measures to help those hit by the drought, the ALP’s election post-mortem release and...

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Labor's election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke

  • Written by: Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

The media have been itching for a report that blamed Labor’s defeat on a dud leader. But the Review of Labor’s 2019 Federal Election Campaign, chaired by former Rudd and Gillard government minister Craig Emerson and former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, is proportionate in the blame it sends Bill Shorten’s way....

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the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court

  • Written by: Zoe Rathus, Senior Lecturer in Law, Griffith University

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s unfounded claim women that lie about domestic abuse to deny fathers access to their children is what’s driving the latest parliamentary inquiry into the family law system.

But this isn’t a new idea. Hanson’s claim stems from a history of discrediting women in the family court, with gendered...

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Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answer

  • Written by: Lin Fritschi, Professor of Epidemiology, Curtin University
Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here's why a ban's the only answerIf we can't afford natural stone, like marble, it's tempting to choose engineered or artificial stone instead. But at what cost to those who breathe in the silica dust when cutting it?from www.shutterstock.com

The National Dust Disease Taskforce is preparing to read submissions next week on how best to handle the resurgence of the fatal lung...

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  1. Remote Indigenous Australia's ecological economies give us something to build on
  2. a short, sharp history of the bayonet
  3. Labor's post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done
  4. Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home
  5. Queensland Health's history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be
  6. Australia's drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point
  7. Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist
  8. Labor's election post-mortem warns against 'becoming a grievance-based organisation'
  9. This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness
  10. Abusing a robot won't hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person
  11. Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west
  12. Australian unis' financial strife in three charts
  13. Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying
  14. men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women
  15. How to deal with smartphone stress
  16. Government sets up concessional loan scheme for drought-hit small businesses
  17. Trump could win again despite losing popular vote, as Biden retakes lead in Democratic polls
  18. Tweaking prescribing rules won't fix chemical restraint in aged care
  19. I teach and play gospel music and I think Kanye's Jesus is King is a remarkable gospel album
  20. Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there's a way to avoid it
  21. Churches have legal rights in Australia. Why not sacred trees?
  22. Australia is spending less on diplomacy than ever before – and its influence is suffering as a result
  23. the ghostly photos taken by the Stasi's hidden cameras
  24. climate change isn't just about temperature
  25. How do solar panels work?
  26. why Mars is cold despite an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide
  27. Australia wants to host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Equal pay for the Matildas will help our chances
  28. Should you worry about Boeing 737s? Only if you run an airline
  29. India's not joining the latest free-trade deal which limits Australia's market access
  30. just 15 years' worth of emissions will raise sea level in 2300
  31. Dogs really can chase away loneliness
  32. Running may help you live longer but more isn't necessarily better
  33. Recycling plastic bottles is good, but reusing them is better
  34. Olivia Colman shines as an older, frumpier Elizabeth
  35. Scott Morrison wants to outlaw boycott campaigns. But the mining industry doesn't need protection
  36. What is ‘ecological economics’ and why do we need to talk about it?
  37. No Australian city has a long-term vision for living sustainably. We can't go on like this
  38. Asylum seekers left 'desperate' and 'helpless' when they try to find work in Australia
  39. India’s social media content removal order is a nail in the coffin of the internet as we know it
  40. how to teach science and maths so students actually care
  41. Why is Japan's Olympic marathon shifting cities to avoid the heat? A sports physiologist explains
  42. Attorney-General Christian Porter targets Market Forces in push against environment groups
  43. a small, gentle, important film that reveals the vulnerability of men
  44. Curious Kids: how do fish sleep?
  45. A new bill keeping 10 year olds out of jail is a good start, but it needs to go further
  46. Is the Morrison government 'authoritarian populist' with a punitive bent?
  47. We asked 13 economists how to fix things. All back the RBA governor over the treasurer
  48. automatic cameras will spot mobile-using motorists, but at what cost?
  49. Strippers on film: battlers, showgirls and hustlers
  50. Opioid dependence treatment saves lives. So why don't more people use it?

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