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Tanya Plibersek on a united Labor

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

The Labor party has emerged from its three day national conference in Adelaide looking united and projecting itself as “ready to govern”.

Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek told The Conversation the ALP wants voters to see the party as “responsible and progressive”.

She says a Labor government would “work cooperatively...

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Labor widens lead in Ipsos; US Democrats gained 40 House seats at midterms

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Labor widens lead in Ipsos; US Democrats gained 40 House seats at midtermsAs the year come to an end, all the polls are giving a significant two-party preferred lead to the federal Labor Party.AAP/Lukas Coch

This week’s Fairfax Ipsos poll, conducted December 12-15 from a sample of 1,200, gave Labor a 54-46 lead, a two-point gain for Labor since November. Primary votes were 37% Labor (up three), 36% Coalition (down...

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Labor's housing pledge is welcome, but direct investment in social housing would improve it

  • Written by: Julie Lawson, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University

Despite recent falls in the housing market, housing costs and indebtedness bite deeply into household budgets, especially at Christmas time. Just over 433,000 households confront housing stress and homelessness every day across Australia. They represent the current shortfall of social housing.

If Christmas offers a moment for reflection, ask...

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Tidelands struggles to stay afloat in its first series

  • Written by: Adam Turner, PhD student, University of Newcastle
Tidelands struggles to stay afloat in its first seriesElsa Pataky and Marco Pigossi in Tidelands (2018)IMDb

Review: Tidelands, Netflix


The first original Netflix series filmed in Australia, Tidelands, is a speculative story about half-human/half-siren beings who live in the coastal Queensland town of Orphelin Bay. The story follows the return to the bay of Calliope (Cal), after she has spent time in...

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  1. Rudd says Murdoch media is a "political party"
  2. We finally have the rulebook for the Paris Agreement, but global climate action is still inadequate
  3. New guidelines for responding to cyber attacks don't go far enough
  4. MYEFO rips A$130 million per year from research funding despite budget surplus
  5. What's your beef? How 'carbon labels' can steer us towards environmentally friendly food choices
  6. Why naming all our mozzies is important for fighting disease
  7. how gift-giving is inspired by beliefs-based altruism
  8. why people follow what other people do
  9. a history of St Nicholas, Santa and his helpers
  10. We need to talk about the actual threats to academic freedom on Australian campuses
  11. National Andrew Broad forced to quit frontbench amid 'sugar baby' allegation
  12. More mirage than good management, MYEFO fails to hit its own targets
  13. Shorten pledges $500 million for UNHCR in border protection policy
  14. how do people know what the weather will be?
  15. Morrison's decision to recognise West Jerusalem the latest bad move in a mess of his own making
  16. MYEFO reveals billions more in revenue, $9 billion in fresh election tax cuts
  17. Having a second child worsens parents' mental health: new research
  18. Children's health hit for six as industry fails to regulate alcohol ads
  19. How to have yourself a plastic-free Christmas
  20. how to keep your kids safe (and out of trouble) when you’re at work these holidays
  21. The great movie scenes: Back to the Future
  22. lessons in how towns remake challenging sites
  23. 2018 was a huge year in gaming
  24. Morrison goes a bridge too far to outsmart Shorten
  25. Labor promises a comprehensive overhaul of federal environmental framework
  26. NSW Governor David Hurley will be Australia's new Governor-General
  27. Shorten's subsidy plan to boost affordable housing
  28. Government hopes Jerusalem compromise will smooth Indonesian trade deal
  29. It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicide
  30. Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?
  31. Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out
  32. Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do
  33. Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland's coast
  34. How to narrow the gap between Ardern's foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate
  35. It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
  36. How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face
  37. Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)
  38. back to Moore River and finding family
  39. Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions
  40. No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia's 'asset recycling' misdirection
  41. Monday's MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track
  42. Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats
  43. one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health
  44. Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas
  45. The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC
  46. In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom
  47. Why cutting Australia's migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade
  48. The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
  49. how to spot 2018's interplanetary bauble
  50. Government agrees to national anti-corruption body – with strict limits

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