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Shorten pledges $500 million for UNHCR in border protection policy

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

Bill Shorten has promised Labor will commit $500 million over five years to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in a policy designed simultaneously to reassure voters and satisfy the party on the politically sensitive issue of border protection.

This was among proposed new measures on asylum seeker policy the opposition leader...

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how do people know what the weather will be?

  • Written by: Adam Morgan, Senior Meteorologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky! You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious Kids.


How do...

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Morrison's decision to recognise West Jerusalem the latest bad move in a mess of his own making

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Morrison's decision to recognise West Jerusalem the latest bad move in a mess of his own makingScott Morrison's announcement that Australia would recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has cause a negative reaction not only from the Muslim world, but from Israel itself.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will have learned a valuable foreign policy lesson in the past day or so as it relates to the Holy Land.

As ye sow,...

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MYEFO reveals billions more in revenue, $9 billion in fresh election tax cuts

  • Written by: Emil Jeyaratnam, Data + Interactives Editor, The Conversation

Higher than expected company tax revenue and lower than expected spending has boosted the budget’s bottom line by A$14 billion over next four years, allowing it to forecast cumulative surpluses of A$30.4 billion, double what it predicted in the budget in May.

Modestly improved surpluses

The mid-year budget update cuts the projected deficit for...

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

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When Should You Speak to a Lawyer About a Legal Issue?

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