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Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it

  • Written by: Nicholas Biddle, Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve itWhen government policy turns out to be a dud and goes off the rails, no one is happy.Shutterstock

Support for democracy and trust in politicians is falling. We hear a lot about evidence-based policy as a way to stem this decline, but less about how that evidence should be generated.

One idea that may generate the type of evidence that will help...

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Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand

  • Written by: Jana Matthews, ANZ Chair in Business Growth. Director, Australian Centre for Business Growth, University of South Australia
Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expandMost small and medium-sized companies in Australia have no written plan for future growth.Shutterstock

The Australian government has a plan to help the nation’s small and medium-sized businesses – but it’s not a very well-developed one.

Its cornerstone is A$2 billion for a “Securitisation Fund” to provide loans to...

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Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen

  • Written by: Tanya Dalziell, Associate Professor, English and Literary Studies, University of Western Australia
Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne IhlenLeonard Cohen pictured in July 2008. His 2016 letter to his 'muse' Marianne Ihlen went viral after his death in the same year. Rolf Haid/EPA

The note Leonard Cohen wrote to his former lover Marianne Ihlen as she lay upon her death bed became a viral phenomenon after they both died in 2016. But Cohen’s last letter to Ihlen was not entirely...

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  1. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  2. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  3. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  4. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  5. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  6. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  7. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  8. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  9. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  10. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  11. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  12. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  13. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  14. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  15. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  16. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  17. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  18. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  19. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  20. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  21. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  22. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  23. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  24. how cities can make room for water
  25. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  26. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  27. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  28. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  29. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  30. free speech and Australian universities
  31. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  32. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  33. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  34. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  35. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  36. what it is and why it needs updating
  37. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
  38. here's how we avoid feeling guilty
  39. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
  40. Fracking policies are wildly inconsistent across Australia, from gung-ho development to total bans
  41. Escher x nendo will surprise, delight and challenge
  42. Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex
  43. New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
  44. Liberals adopt new rule to stop the revolving prime ministership
  45. Craig Kelly triumphs in the 'outwit, outplay, outlast' game of Survivor
  46. Adani's new mini version of its mega mine still faces some big hurdles
  47. what is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?
  48. G20 summit bring a truce in US-China trade relations – but it's likely to be temporary
  49. What existed before the Big Bang? Did something have to be there to go boom?
  50. Turnbull versus Morrison in Liberal crisis over Craig Kelly

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