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Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmare

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmareCutting back on dividend imputation will pay dividends to Labor budgets for years to come.Shutterstock

On Friday morning the Coalition’s worst dream will come true.

All throughout the campaign, and all through the two terms in office and three prime ministers and three treasurers that preceded it, they’ve argued that they they than Labor...

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Bill Shorten's moment of "connection" brings back memories of Beaconsfield

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

Some old Labor hands have been recalling this week the appearances of Bill Shorten during the 2006 Beaconsfield mining rescue, that brought the then union leader and political aspirant to the nation’s attention.

They showed, above all, a skill in using an occurrence to connect with the public.

Shorten demonstrated that ability again on...

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why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail

  • Written by: Mark Rolfe, Honorary associate, School of Social Sciences, UNSW

If fact-checking units can award politicians ticks for telling the truth, surely we should award them clown faces for telling good jokes. And despite some honourable mentions, fewer such honours will be granted during the 2019 federal election than previous campaigns.

Of course, spontaneous humour is harder for our current crop of candidates,...

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'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracy

  • Written by: Johan Lidberg, Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracyBill Shorten tearfully responded to the latest attack aimed at him by News Corp – a move that seemingly backfired for the Murdoch media empire.Lukas Coch/AAP

Remember the Daily Telegraph’s 2013 front page headline “Kick this mob out”?

Although some could argue that Labor after the Rudd-Gillard years was in a deep mess and...

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  2. Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering
  3. Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap
  4. Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll
  5. You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow
  6. why do leaves fall off trees?
  7. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  8. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  9. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  10. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  11. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  12. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  13. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  14. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  15. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  16. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  17. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  18. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  19. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  20. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  21. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  22. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  23. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  24. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  25. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  26. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  27. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  28. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  29. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  30. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  31. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  32. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  33. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  34. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  35. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  36. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  37. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  38. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next
  39. 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age
  40. how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
  41. Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign
  42. the big tech business model
  43. why don't horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?
  44. how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice
  45. Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology
  46. For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter
  47. The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan
  48. is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?
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