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After 44 years of deficits, we've a current account surplus. What went so right?

  • Written by: Peter Martin., Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
After 44 years of deficits, we've a current account surplus. What went so right?Some things went wrong and some things went right. The resulting current account surplus is neither good nor bad.Shutterstock/ABS

Australia has been in a current account deficit – paying more money out to the rest of the world than it took in – for 44 straight years, since September 1975.

Until today. The update from the Bureau of...

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Morrison and Dutton block their ears and grit their teeth over Tamil family

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

As the federal court prepares to deal with the last ditch effort in the Sri Lankan Tamil family’s fight against deportation, Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton are finding “border control” politics a lot more difficult than usual.

They may well boot out the family of four, that includes two small girls born here. But volleys of...

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We don't know menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer, but the evidence continues to suggest a link

  • Written by: Martha Hickey, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne
We don't know menopausal hormone therapy causes breast cancer, but the evidence continues to suggest a linkThis isn't the first time scientific research has found a link between menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer.From shutterstock.com

Menopause is a normal life stage for women at around 51 years. Most women don’t need treatment for their symptoms, but around 13% of Australian women aged 50-69 take menopausal hormone therapy (sometimes...

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why the New Zealand government needs to act cautiously but quickly

  • Written by: Michael Belgrave, Professor History, Massey University
why the New Zealand government needs to act cautiously but quicklyThe land occupation at Ihumātao brings together Māori and heritage activists seeking to stop a housing development on a site that marks the earliest human occupation of New Zealand. Alika Wells/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

When TJ Perenara took the field for the All Blacks against Australia, in the critical final match of the Bledisloe Cup series...

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