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Morrison visits Governor-General for a May 18 election

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

Scott Morrison has called the election for May 18.

After returning from Melbourne to Canberra late Wednesday night, Morrison visited the Governor-General Peter Cosgrove at 7 am on Thursday.

Following the redistribution, the government goes into the election with a notional 73 seats; Labor has 72. The winner needs 76 for a majority in the new House...

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India's elections will be the largest in world history

  • Written by: Erin Watson-Lynn, Head of Programs, Perth USAsia Centre, University of Western Australia

The world’s largest democratic election is set to take place in India. Voting will take place in seven phases from April 11 to May 19, and the result will be announced May 23.

An extraordinary 900 million people are eligible to vote, 130 million for the first time. Not only is it the “largest democratic exercise” in history, it is...

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How much evidence is enough to declare a new species of human from a Philippines cave site?

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
How much evidence is enough to declare a new species of human from a Philippines cave site?Callao Cave on Luzon Island in The Philippines, where the fossils of _Homo luzonensis_ were discovered. Callao Cave Archaeology Project (Florent Détroit)

The announcement of a new species of ancient human (more correctly hominin) from the Philippines, reported today in Nature, will cause a lot of head-shaking among anthropologists and...

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Dog whistles, regional visas and wage theft – immigration policy is again an election issue

  • Written by: Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney

This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election.


Immigration policy will be a major issue in the 2019 federal election. We know this because immigration has featured significantly at every Australian election since the...

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  1. There's a lot of bad news in the UN Global Environment Outlook, but a sustainable future is still possible
  2. Prescription monitoring is here, but we need to tread carefully to avoid unintended harms
  3. Both major parties are finally talking about the importance of preschool – here's why it matters
  4. Artificial intelligence may take your job, so political leaders need to start doing theirs
  5. Here's why well-intentioned vegan protesters are getting it wrong
  6. a lurch between aggression and apathy
  7. 'My girlfriend is intimidated by the idea of having sex. What should I do?'
  8. big on promises, short on follow-through
  9. Labor will prioritise an NBN 'digital inclusion drive' – here's what it should focus on
  10. Bowen says Labor would have lower tax take than under Howard years
  11. intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war
  12. Government advertising may be legal, but it's corrupting our electoral process
  13. Housing with no serious faults and buyer protection – is that too much to ask of builders and regulators?
  14. We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here's why it could happen again
  15. We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers
  16. Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal
  17. Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize
  18. Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie
  19. The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
  20. More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient way
  21. From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
  22. Coalition gets a bounce in Newspoll, but not in Ipsos or Essential
  23. The ABC didn't receive a reprieve in the budget. It's still facing staggering cuts
  24. Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
  25. green-collar criminals or civil 'disobedients'?
  26. Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
  27. the curious case of shy lizards and deadly cane toads
  28. Business-as-usual record on transport leaves next government plenty of room to improve
  29. NZ journalists arrested in Fiji have been released but a new era of press freedom is yet to arrive
  30. A detailed eucalypt family tree helps us see how they came to dominate Australia
  31. The 14 Indigenous words for money on the new 50 cent coin
  32. What will the Coalition be remembered for on tax? Tinkering, blunders and lost opportunities
  33. Politicians need to listen up before they speak up – and listen in the right places
  34. Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
  35. Which families delay sending their child to school, and why? We crunched the numbers
  36. We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests
  37. In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated
  38. Australia has a new National Construction Code, but it's still not good enough
  39. Control, cost and convenience determine how Australians use the technology in their homes
  40. It's the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani
  41. All female mammals have a clitoris – we're starting to work out what that means for their sex lives
  42. Labor's cancer package would cut the cost of care, but beware of unintended side effects
  43. How has education policy changed under the Coalition government?
  44. Tourists behaving badly are a threat to global tourism, and the industry is partly to blame
  45. how did the months get their names?
  46. The swamp foxtail's origin is hidden in its DNA
  47. Casual academics aren't going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn't affected?
  48. your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist
  49. Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re-released by Tasmania's bushfires
  50. should we nap during the day?

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