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Rudd says Murdoch media is a "political party"

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

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has used an address to the Labor national conference to deliver a fresh swingeing attack on the Murdoch media, declaring “it is not a news organisation, it is a political party”.

Rudd said for Labor and for Bill Shorten, “dealing with the Murdoch mafia is kind of like dealing with a daily...

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We finally have the rulebook for the Paris Agreement, but global climate action is still inadequate

  • Written by: Kate Dooley, Researcher, Australian German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne

Three years after the Paris Agreement was struck, we now finally know the rules – or most of them, at least – for its implementation.

The Paris Rulebook, agreed at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, gives countries a common framework for reporting and reviewing progress towards their climate targets.

Yet the new rules fall short...

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MYEFO rips A$130 million per year from research funding despite budget surplus

  • Written by: Margaret Gardner, President and Vice Chancellor, Monash University
MYEFO rips A$130 million per year from research funding despite budget surplusThe shockwaves of this cut will be felt for years to come at Australian universities.www.shutterstock.com

Yesterday morning, the mid-year budget update unveiled research funding cuts of A$328.5 million over the next four years. This budget raid on research was more than double the size expected by the university research community.

This new freeze...

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