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Palmer's preference deal and watergate woes

  • Written by: Chris Aulich, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra
Palmer's preference deal and watergate woesThe Coalition is expected to announce a preference deal with Clive Palmer's United Australia Party on Monday.Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Our “state of the states” series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states.

We’ll check in with our expert political...

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Why New Zealand needs to translate its response to Christchurch attacks into foreign policy

  • Written by: Hanlie Booysen, Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington

During his two-day royal visit this week, Prince William has met with survivors of the Christchurch mosque shootings and has praised New Zealand’s response to the attacks.

To the people of New Zealand and the people of Christchurch, to our Muslim community and all those who have rallied by your side, I stand with you in gratitude to what you...

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Labor's crackdown on temporary visa requirements won't much help Australian workers

  • Written by: Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
Labor's crackdown on temporary visa requirements won't much help Australian workersLabor wants higher minimum pay for temporary visa holders, but most are already being paid much more.Shutterstock

Bill Shorten is holding out the prospect of protecting Australian workers from foreign ones.

He has pledged to tighten the visa system for short-term skilled migrants, ensuring they have to be paid more so that “it isn’t...

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New Zealand's dismal record on child poverty and the government's challenge to turn it around

  • Written by: Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand's dismal record on child poverty and the government's challenge to turn it aroundSome children in New Zealand live in such hardship that they don't have a good pair of shoes and have to put up with feeling cold. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

The latest statistics on childhood poverty in New Zealand suggest that, on some key measures, things are worse than previously estimated.

About one in six children (16% or 183,000)...

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  10. All is forgiven in the Liberal embrace of Palmer
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  12. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka terror attack. Here's what that means
  13. Palmer's party has good support in Newspoll seat polls, but is it realistic?
  14. Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics as it tries to restore the universe
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  16. capturing the reverberations of loss
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  18. Caroline Fisher on the spin machines of #AusVotes19
  19. What happens now we've found the site of the lost Australian freighter SS Iron Crown, sunk in WWII
  20. Telling the forgotten stories of Indigenous servicemen in the first world war
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  22. House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come
  23. Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it
  24. how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia
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  33. Rift between NZ government and aid agency over naming of nurse captured by ISIS
  34. Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the 'disappointing' banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
  35. Sri Lanka has a history of conflict, but the recent attacks appear different
  36. The budget's dirty secret is the hikes in tax rates you're not meant to know about
  37. How much do sedentary people really need to move? It's less than you think
  38. Crackdown on foreign workers is part of Shorten's wages campaign
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  41. MONA's Eat the Problem is possibly well-meaning but ultimately exquisitely elitist
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  46. Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous
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