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Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about

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

In the topsy turvy Liberal universe, just when the right is trying to tighten its grip on the throat of the party, the government is haring off to the left, with this week’s legislation to allow it to break up recalcitrant energy companies.

As former deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop - who as a backbencher has become very forthright - said...

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Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring

  • Written by: Karleen Gribble, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaringInfant formula manufacturers have been funding the development of guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cows' milk allergy in infants.from shutterstock.com

There has been a six-fold increase in sales of infant formula prescribed for babies with cows’ milk protein allergy in the United Kingdom from 2006 to 2016. This is despite no...

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George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester
George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked himGeorge HW Bush during his successful 1988 election campaign.Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Among the tributes, critiques and personal reminsces on the life of former US president George H.W. Bush, there has been plenty of reflection on his war record – but less on how he handled himself during the early skirmishes of the climate battle.

Scientists...

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Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018

  • Written by: Andrew Dodd, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne

Today we’re taking a look back at some of the biggest issues of 2018 with special guest Kath Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian.

As the media grappled this year with how to cover Donald Trump and his “alternative facts”, Viner says it may be time for the media to pay less attention to what he says.

“Surely the thing to do...

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  2. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  3. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  4. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  5. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  6. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  7. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  8. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  9. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  10. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  11. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  12. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  13. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  14. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  15. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  16. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  17. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  18. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  19. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  20. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  21. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  22. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  23. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  24. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  25. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  26. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  27. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  28. how cities can make room for water
  29. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  30. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  31. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  32. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  33. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  34. free speech and Australian universities
  35. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  36. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  37. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  38. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  39. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  40. what it is and why it needs updating
  41. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
  42. here's how we avoid feeling guilty
  43. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
  44. Fracking policies are wildly inconsistent across Australia, from gung-ho development to total bans
  45. Escher x nendo will surprise, delight and challenge
  46. Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex
  47. New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
  48. Liberals adopt new rule to stop the revolving prime ministership
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