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Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese 'disinformation'

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Foreign Minister Payne pledges continued fight against Chinese 'disinformation'Joel Carrett/AAP

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has attacked China’s “disinformation” about racism in this country and committed Australia to a more activist role in pressing for reform of multilateral institutions, including the World Health Organisation.

In a Tuesday night speech titled “Australia and the world in the time...

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Steve Bracks and Jenny Macklin installed to run crisis-ridden Victorian ALP

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

The ALP national executive has decided on sweeping federal intervention into the crisis-ridden Victorian ALP, in the wake of revelations of the alleged “industrial scale” branch stacking and threats by now former state minister and power broker Adem Somyurek.

Former state premier Steve Bracks and former federal cabinet minister Jenny...

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2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still stands

  • Written by Shaun Hendy, Professor of Physics, University of Auckland
2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still standsAsiandelight/Shutterstock

New Zealand is one of a handful of countries where community transmission of COVID-19 has been eliminated.

But with two new cases announced today (June 16), we have learned that elimination is not the end – rather, it’s the start of the next phase.

2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but elimination of community transmission still standsProbability of elimination of COVID-19 community transmission.

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10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their own

  • Written by Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, Discipline of Linguistics, University of Western Australia
10 ways Aboriginal Australians made English their ownGlenys Dale Collard, Author provided

Aboriginal English is spoken by an estimated 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and is the first and only language spoken by many Aboriginal children.

There are similarities between Standard Australian English and Aboriginal English, but this can pose serious obstacles for its speakers, who are...

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