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Monday's MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track

  • Written by: Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney

An appallingly perfect storm is brewing for the federal budget:

  • a government with much more income than expected

  • a federal election due within months

  • a government well behind in the polls

With the election all but announced for May, next Monday’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) will be the effective start of the campaign.

The...

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Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats

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

In this week’s Newspoll 55% believed Labor would win next year’s election, compared with just 24% who thought the Coalition would. These are figures to frighten Scott Morrison, and make Bill Shorten just a touch nervous.

If most people think the government is finished, it is hard for Morrison to get their attention – though he is...

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one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of healthThe competitive neutrality report has given the ABC, and SBS, a clean bill of health.Shutterstock

Two reports out this week – one into the operations of Facebook and Google, the other into the competitive neutrality of the ABC and SBS – present the federal government with significant policy and political challenges.

The first is by far...

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Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas

  • Written by: Bronwyn Hemsley, Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney
Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this ChristmasAround 8% of the population experience swallowing difficulties.from shutterstock.com

Swallowing food, drink, and saliva is a central part of our lives. It’s something we do about 900 times a day, yet we barely give it a second thought. We’re mostly unaware of the many food decisions we make every day.

But if you have a swallowing...

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  4. The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
  5. how to spot 2018's interplanetary bauble
  6. Government agrees to national anti-corruption body – with strict limits
  7. Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election
  8. The Conversation Stakeholder Report 2018
  9. Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?
  10. How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship
  11. We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead
  12. The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival
  13. Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars
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  18. Anthony Albanese on Labor's road ahead
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  27. How cinema's new Aquaman draws on the mythology of ancient sea gods
  28. Not wiped out. Why Whyalla, of all places, now has a sustainable future
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  31. Morrison government promises $1.25 billion for health care
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  33. Victorian upper house greatly distorted by group voting tickets; federal Labor still dominant in Newspoll
  34. why is Australia adopting the global refugee compact but not the migration compact?
  35. ACCC wants to curb digital platform power – but enforcement is tricky
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