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Grattan on Friday – Anthony Albanese needs some meat in his first 'vision statement' next week

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

John Howard is an icon for the Liberals and a confidant for Scott Morrison. So he was the obvious choice to star at last week’s dinner to mark the 75th anniversary of the party’s founding by Robert Menzies.

Howard joined the celebratory tone of the night, declaring “Morrison, you were magnificent” in a play on Menzies’...

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We have a vaccine for hepatitis B but here's why we still need a cure

  • Written by: Peter Revill, Senior Medical Scientist at VIDRL, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
We have a vaccine for hepatitis B but here's why we still need a cureAround 5% of adults and 90% of babies who contract hepatitis B go on to have life-long infection that can only be managed with regular medication.Ronald Rampsch/Shutterstock

Hepatitis B is blood-borne virus that packs a punch. Worldwide, more than 1.3 billion people have been infected with hepatitis B, and 257 million people have developed a...

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landmark ruling could trigger other workers' compensation claims from reality TV stars

  • Written by: Joellen Riley Munton, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney

This week, the Seven Network was found liable to pay a workers’ compensation claim brought by Nicole Prince, one of the contestants on its renovation reality television show, House Rules.

Prince suffered a major depressive episode, and symptoms consistent with post traumatic stress disorder after she and her partner were cast as the...

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Let's not be cynical about #righttoknow, it's a bright spot on the media horizon

  • Written by: Misha Ketchell, Editor & Executive Director, The Conversation
Let's not be cynical about #righttoknow, it's a bright spot on the media horizonThe Conversation newsroom held up signs to support the #righttoknow campaign on press freedom on Monday.The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Anyone who has ever worked as a journalist knows the work tends to accentuate the negative. (“If it bleeds it leads”.) To counteract this, I’d like to end the week by highlighting two pieces of very...

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  1. advertisers must rethink their plastic waste message
  2. Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are set to fall
  3. student results are (mostly) out of their hands
  4. how our 'macho' construction culture is killing tradies
  5. US retreat from Syria could see Islamic State roar back to life
  6. Heather Rose's new book has a sense of place yet taps into global unease
  7. how does an optical illusion work?
  8. Over-the-top policing of bike helmet laws targets vulnerable riders
  9. many employers don't want new migrants
  10. John Setka resigns from ALP, attacks Albanese
  11. Nationals leader Michael McCormack acknowledges snafu over Hanson dairy deal
  12. Deputy PM Michael McCormack on the drought and restive Nationals
  13. If you want to boost the economy, big infrastructure projects won't cut it: new Treasury boss
  14. Politicians must mine the divide between coal lobbies and energy companies
  15. 'My friends are taking MDMA at raves and music festivals. Is it safe?'
  16. new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilities
  17. what happens when AI starts giving out fashion tips?
  18. Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don't want to rock the boat
  19. Australians split on the level of foreign students: ANUpoll
  20. 3 things to help improve your exam results (besides studying)
  21. Australian governments have long been hostile to media freedom. That's unlikely to change any time soon
  22. The 'ceasefire' in Syria is ending – here's what's likely to happen now
  23. from koala jumpers to the Sydney Olympics, Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson defined Australian fashion
  24. Is coconut water good for you? We asked five experts
  25. Your brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
  26. a clever way to include homes in the age pension assets test
  27. how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce
  28. Trackless trams v light rail? It's not a contest – both can improve our cities
  29. Horse racing must change, or the court of public opinion will bury it
  30. where big businesses dump their excess data, and hackers have a field day
  31. the medevac law saves lives. But even this isn't enough to alleviate refugee suffering
  32. the art and genius of metaphor in Anna Spargo-Ryan’s The Paper House
  33. Australia needs a Media Freedom Act. Here's how it could work
  34. Australia has plenty of gas, but our bills are ridiculous. The market is broken
  35. here's what Aboriginal survivors of child sexual abuse told us they need
  36. Don't stress, your ATAR isn't the final call. There are many ways to get into university
  37. We could reduce the slaughter of racehorses if we breed them for longer racing careers
  38. To bolster our fragile road and rail system we need to add a 'micro-mobility' network
  39. Can Ne Zha, the Chinese superhero with $1b at the box office, teach us how to raise good kids?
  40. Breaking Pauline Hanson's 'strike' has taken skin off Bridget McKenzie
  41. a charismatic, generous performance about growing up Sikh in Australia
  42. How big alcohol is trying to fool us into thinking drinking is safer than it really is
  43. A criminal asked to design anti-money laundering laws would probably keep our current ones
  44. Migrant communities keep our cemeteries alive as more Anglo-Australians turn to cremation
  45. Morrison says China knows 'where Australia is coming from', after meeting Chinese vice-president
  46. Who's responsible for the slaughtered ex-racehorses, and what can be done?
  47. Arrogance destroyed the World Trade Organisation. What replaces it will be even worse
  48. Science prizes are still a boys' club. Here's how we can change that
  49. 4 ways to talk with vaccine skeptics
  50. The Trump presidency should not be shocking. It's a symptom of our cultural malaise

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