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Kristina Keneally vs Peter Dutton should produce plenty of political bloodsport

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

Kristina Keneally is continuing her rise and rise, appointed to “shadow” Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, in Anthony Albanese’s frontbench bench line up announced on Sunday.

After last week obtaining a place in the shadow ministry and becoming Labor’s deputy Senate leader, with two men standing aside to make way for her,...

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Adani's finch plan is approved, just weeks after being sent back to the drawing board

  • Written by: Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University

The Queensland government has ticked off a crucial environmental approval for Adani’s Carmichael coalmine, bringing the contentious project a step closer to becoming reality.

It has approved Adani’s proposed management plan for the endangered black-throated finch, less than a month after the state’s environment department...

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an international superfood thousands of years in the making

  • Written by: Gregory John Leach, Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University

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The Kakadu Plum fruiting season in the Top End is just finishing. Over one weekend, I was able to find a few fruits on the ground beneath some trees in the Eucalypt woodland near Darwin.

This is the best way to eat Kakadu...

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Children had no say in New Zealand's well-being budget, and that matters

  • Written by: Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Victoria University of Wellington
Children had no say in New Zealand's well-being budget, and that mattersThe Office of the Children’s Commissioner and the Ministry for Children have interviewed thousands of children about what well-being means to them. from www.shutterstock.com

New Zealand’s budget 2019 promised to usher in a new era of policy addressing well-being. It was meant to go beyond the status quo of measuring how we do by a...

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  2. 'Do I need to shave my pubic hair before having sex?'
  3. support for lower-emission business, transport, land use
  4. APRA is going to make it easier to borrow. It could be another one of its bad calls
  5. Why we're not giving up the search for mainland Australia's 'first extinct lizard'
  6. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and the complex life of the 'poet of America'
  7. why Australia's policy on asylum seekers must change
  8. We've been given a pay rise. Were it not for concern about the economy, it would have been bigger
  9. As Morrison heads to the Pacific, our nearest neighbours will be looking for more than kind words
  10. If the Adani mine gets built, it will be thanks to politicians, on two continents
  11. If your kid is bullied and hurt on school grounds, can you sue the school?
  12. Traditional medicines must be integrated into health care for culturally diverse groups
  13. the library – humanist ideal, social glue and now, tourism hotspot
  14. Trees, the ancient Macedonians, and the world's first environmental disaster
  15. Housing affordability has improved slightly, but people on lower incomes will continue to struggle
  16. Is it good for Labor, or Bill Shorten, for the former leader to stay in parliament?
  17. Politics and religion collide in the Knesset as Netanyahu faces the fight of his political life
  18. how it hopes to improve people's lives
  19. Over-the-counter contraceptive pill could save the health system $96 million a year
  20. humanising a cold case victim – writing the life and brutal death of Mollie Dean
  21. Mental health wins record funding in New Zealand's first 'well-being budget'
  22. Ken Wyatt faces challenges – and opportunities – as minister for Indigenous Australians
  23. The behavioural economics of discounting, and why Kogan would profit from discount deception
  24. Carelessly linking crime to being homeless adds to the harmful stigma
  25. Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001
  26. Australians could have saved over $1 billon in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago
  27. Policies, not posturing, will help Albanese shake the 'left-wing' tag and restore faith in his party
  28. Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?
  29. the Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang
  30. Here's what needs to happen to get the NDIS back on track
  31. The government keeps talking about revamping VET – but is it actually doing it?
  32. we need to kickstart innovation in Australia
  33. After decades away, dengue returns to central Queensland
  34. Freak mud flows threaten our water supplies, and climate change is raising the risk
  35. Despite Japan's low crime rates, it's seen a number of mass stabbings in the past decade
  36. Why is it taking so long to achieve gender equality in parliament?
  37. A closer look at Scott Morrison's new ministry
  38. keeping peace with both China and the US
  39. Fewer Australians will have uni or TAFE skills if governments don't reform tertiary education
  40. Surgery rates are rising in over-85s but the decision to operate isn't always easy
  41. Why regional universities are at risk of going under
  42. Is China's social credit system coming to Australia?
  43. Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destruction
  44. Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?
  45. Crisis? What crisis? A new prime minister in PNG might not signal meaningful change for its citizens
  46. More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us
  47. In Suzie Miller's Prima Facie, theatre finds a voice of reckoning on sexual assault and the law
  48. Rising seas threaten Australia's major airports – and it may be happening faster than we think
  49. how do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?
  50. the little patches that can make managing diabetes a whole lot easier

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