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It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in Australia

  • Written by: Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, James Cook University
It's time to lift the restrictions on medical abortion in AustraliaA medical abortion is induced with medication, while a surgical abortion is performed with instruments in a clinic or hospital operating theatre.JGA/Shutterstock

Over the past thirteen years, many Australian women have used the drug mifepristone (RU486) to bring about a medical abortion.

Rather than undergoing a surgical abortion in a clinic or...

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Expect a budget that breaks the intergenerational bargain, like the one before it, and before that

  • Written by: Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute

The tens of thousands of young people who were protesting at the school climate strike two weeks ago know that they are being left a stinking great environmental mess to clean up.

But I suspect that many are yet to appreciate that this is not the only mess they’ll be left with.

Australia’s tax and welfare system is built around an implic...

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the rise and fall of the bad-tempered tabloids

  • Written by: Rodney Tiffen, Emeritus Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
the rise and fall of the bad-tempered tabloidsRefusing to change with the times, Australia's tabloids now cater to an aged, monocultural and alienated constituency.Shutterstock

“Kick this mob out” shouted the front page of The Daily Telegraph on the day that Tony Abbott triumphed in the 2013 federal election. Restraint and modesty have never been the hallmarks of tabloid...

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If we want students to feel safe at school, we can't encourage teachers to spot potential extremists

  • Written by: Clarke Jones, Research Fellow, Research School of Psychology, Australian National University
If we want students to feel safe at school, we can't encourage teachers to spot potential extremistsPrograms to counter violent extremism in schools tend to stigmatise a particular group of children.from shutterstock.com

In the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack, former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair told a global education forum extremism should be treated as a global problem like climate change. He said:

there should be an international...

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  2. Settling migrants in regional areas will need more than a visa to succeed
  3. Shorten's climate policy would hit more big polluters harder and set electric car target
  4. Labor flags another budget in August as Frydenberg says his contains "a series" of living cost measures
  5. Why are we losing so many Indigenous children to suicide?
  6. Hannah Gadsby's follow-up to Nanette is an act of considered self-care
  7. Why we need to fix encryption laws the tech sector says threaten Australian jobs
  8. The government's electricity shortlist rightly features pumped hydro (and wrongly includes coal)
  9. Old man's beard is a star climber for Australian gardens
  10. The false hope offered by talk of a living wage
  11. Michelle Grattan on One Nation's NRA affair and the Morrison's coal offering
  12. what does it all mean for the 2019 federal election?
  13. The challenge of drawing a line between objectionable material and freedom of expression online
  14. The AFL and its clubs must continue to expose and sanction online trolls, it’s the law
  15. Christchurch attacks strike at the heart of Muslims' safe places from Islamophobia
  16. Deadly frog fungus has wiped out 90 species and threatens hundreds more
  17. Premiums up, rebates down, and a new tiered system – what the private health insurance changes mean
  18. From the bronze age to food cans, here's how tin changed humanity
  19. Bad news. Closing coal-fired power stations costs jobs. We need to prepare
  20. what are Confucius Institutes and do they teach Chinese propaganda?
  21. Friday essay: shadows on the Moon
  22. Scott Morrison struggles to straddle the south-north divide
  23. How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability
  24. NZ's environmental watchdog challenges climate policy on farm emissions and forestry offsets
  25. Labor pledges $14m funding boost to Environmental Defenders Offices – what do these services do?
  26. Kate Mulvany's The Mares bristles with energetic feminist storytelling
  27. How to challenge racism by listening to those who experience it
  28. How Fraser Anning was elected to the Senate – and what the major parties can do to keep extremists out
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  30. how a sci-fi film tackled big philosophical questions
  31. How challenging masculine stereotypes is good for men
  32. Helping teachers 'practise what they teach' could help them stay teaching for longer
  33. Why we still struggle with work-home conflict in women and men
  34. Historic pay equity settlement for NZ care workers delivers mixed results
  35. Chinese social media platform WeChat could be a key battleground in the federal election
  36. What is a waterless barrier and how could it slow cane toads?
  37. Healthy, happy and tropical – world's fastest-growing cities demand our attention
  38. A national living wage is on the table. Now let's talk about a global living wage
  39. Jenny Macklin on inequality and Labor values
  40. what can we learn from Al Jazeera's undercover NRA sting?
  41. Making more drugs available 'over the counter' would be a win for the public and the health care system
  42. Banning exotic leather in fashion hurts snakes and crocodiles in the long run
  43. Scott Walker has gone but his voice will drift with us into the twilight
  44. The inside story on crime within prison
  45. Are more Aussie trees dying of drought? Scientists need your help spotting dead trees
  46. 'are Kegel exercises actually good for you?'
  47. should Australia lower the voting age to 16?
  48. James Ashby rocks a few boats, including his own
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