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a history of St Nicholas, Santa and his helpers

  • Written by: Louise Pryke, Lecturer, Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel, Macquarie University
a history of St Nicholas, Santa and his helpersIllustration to verse 1 of the children's poem Old Santeclaus with Much Delight. 1821. Wikimedia, CC BY

There are many sides to the beloved figure of Santa Claus - a giant of pop culture, he also has “miraculous” powers and ties to the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Santa’s blend of religion and popular culture is, however,...

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We need to talk about the actual threats to academic freedom on Australian campuses

  • Written by: Miriam Bankovsky, Senior Lecturer in Politics, La Trobe University
We need to talk about the actual threats to academic freedom on Australian campusesWe need to have a more nuanced discussion about threats to academic freedom – not just a heavily polarised debate based on a poorly constructed audit.www.shutterstock.com

Last week, the Institute for Public Affairs (IPA) published their third annual Free Speech on Campus Audit. It found all but one Australian university (the University of New...

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National Andrew Broad forced to quit frontbench amid 'sugar baby' allegation

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

Victorian Nationals MP Andrew Broad has been forced to quit as assistant minster to Deputy Michael McCormack after extraordinary claims about his exchanges with a young woman he met through a “seeking arrangement” website and dined with in Hong Kong.

The magazine New Idea reported sensational details from an interview with the woman,...

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More mirage than good management, MYEFO fails to hit its own targets

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

The Morrison government wants next year’s election to be about economic management.

So understandably, it’s using the improved bottom line in the Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) to talk up its economic credentials.

But the numbers in MYEFO show it has failed to hit many of its own targets.

Target 1: Surpluses on average...

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  1. Shorten pledges $500 million for UNHCR in border protection policy
  2. how do people know what the weather will be?
  3. Morrison's decision to recognise West Jerusalem the latest bad move in a mess of his own making
  4. MYEFO reveals billions more in revenue, $9 billion in fresh election tax cuts
  5. Having a second child worsens parents' mental health: new research
  6. Children's health hit for six as industry fails to regulate alcohol ads
  7. How to have yourself a plastic-free Christmas
  8. how to keep your kids safe (and out of trouble) when you’re at work these holidays
  9. The great movie scenes: Back to the Future
  10. lessons in how towns remake challenging sites
  11. 2018 was a huge year in gaming
  12. Morrison goes a bridge too far to outsmart Shorten
  13. Labor promises a comprehensive overhaul of federal environmental framework
  14. NSW Governor David Hurley will be Australia's new Governor-General
  15. Shorten's subsidy plan to boost affordable housing
  16. Government hopes Jerusalem compromise will smooth Indonesian trade deal
  17. It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicide
  18. Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?
  19. Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out
  20. Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do
  21. Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland's coast
  22. How to narrow the gap between Ardern's foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate
  23. It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
  24. How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face
  25. Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)
  26. back to Moore River and finding family
  27. Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions
  28. No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia's 'asset recycling' misdirection
  29. Monday's MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track
  30. Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats
  31. one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health
  32. Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas
  33. The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC
  34. In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom
  35. Why cutting Australia's migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade
  36. The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
  37. how to spot 2018's interplanetary bauble
  38. Government agrees to national anti-corruption body – with strict limits
  39. Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election
  40. The Conversation Stakeholder Report 2018
  41. Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?
  42. How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship
  43. We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead
  44. The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival
  45. Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars
  46. a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please
  47. Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains
  48. Australia's problem with Aboriginal World Heritage
  49. ABC and SBS are not distorting media market, government inquiry finds
  50. Anthony Albanese on Labor's road ahead

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