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Shorten's ratings rise as Labor holds its lead in Newspoll

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

As the campaign enters its last days, Newspoll in the Australian shows Labor maintaining its 51-49% lead, while Bill Shorten has closed in on Scott Morrison as better prime minister.

Shorten’s approval has also improved compared to a week ago, in a poll that has both sides increasing their primary votes by one point. The Coalition is now on...

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View from The Hill: Quick on the draw

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

Scott Morrison has made a late bid for the support of younger voters with a promise that a re-elected Coalition government would provide a guarantee to help them bridge the deposit gap for their first home.

But as the campaign enters its desperate last days, Labor immediately declared that it would match the government’s initiative.

Shadow...

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Labor's costings broadly check out. The days of black holes are behind us, thankfully

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Is there a “big black hole” in Labor’s election costings? It’s unlikely.

The final campaign before the arrival of the Parliamentary Budget Office in 2012, the 2010 Gillard versus Abbott contest, was full them.

Abbott was in opposition, Joe Hockey was his treasury spokesman. A treasury analysis of the costings document he...

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Tony Costa wins the 2019 Archibald Prize

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
Tony Costa wins the 2019 Archibald PrizeArchibald Prize 2019 winner, Tony Costa, 'Lindy Lee', oil on canvas, 182.5 x 152 cm, © the artist.Photo: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins Sitter: Lindy Lee - artist

Tony Costa’s portrait of fellow artist Lindy Lee has won the 2019 Archibald Prize. His subject, Lindy Lee is both one of Australia’s most distinguished artists and a former...

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  1. New laws in Western Australia will help victims of family violence end their tenancies
  2. How I stumbled on a lost plant just north of Antarctica
  3. Teaching is too often seen as a fall-back option, and that's unlikely to change anytime soon
  4. can your employer sack you for what you say or do in your own time?
  5. do 86% of people visit the doctor for free?
  6. Focus groups suggest Wentworth is embracing Phelps, but Sharma helped by fear of Labor
  7. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Shorten's campaign moment
  8. Children are our future, and the planet's. Here's how you can teach them to take care of it
  9. Carry-over credits and carbon offsets are hot topics this election – but what do they actually mean?
  10. We must rip up our environmental laws to address the extinction crisis
  11. will Whelan disendorsement make a difference in Tasmania?
  12. More First Nations people in parliament matters. Here’s why.
  13. separating the art from the badly behaved artist – a philosopher's view
  14. Giving workers a voice in the boardroom is a compelling corporate governance reform
  15. Ancient Rome inspired Washington but its legacy of being open to all has fallen into oblivion
  16. Many young women find pleasure in sexually explicit material but it still reinforces gender inequality
  17. Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
  18. When it came to the surplus, both Bill and Scott were having a lend
  19. A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?
  20. Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threat
  21. Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmare
  22. Bill Shorten's moment of "connection" brings back memories of Beaconsfield
  23. why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail
  24. 'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracy
  25. Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief
  26. Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering
  27. Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap
  28. Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll
  29. You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow
  30. why do leaves fall off trees?
  31. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  32. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  33. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  34. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  35. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  36. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  37. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  38. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  39. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  40. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  41. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  42. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  43. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  44. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  45. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  46. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  47. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  48. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  49. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
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