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How to restore trust in governments and institutions

  • Written by: Grant Duncan, Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
How to restore trust in governments and institutionsIt takes collective action to deal with global issues.from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-ND

Addressing the UN General Assembly in September, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world is “suffering from a bad case of trust deficit disorder”.

Trust is at a breaking point. Trust in national institutions. Trust among states....

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Michelle Grattan on Turnbull's QandA appearance, Morrison's bus tour, and antics in NSW

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

Michelle Grattan speaks to University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics. They discuss Malcolm Turnbull’s special interview on ABC’s QandA, Scott Morrison’s bus tour campaign in Queensland, former federal Labor opposition leader Mark Latham running as a One Nation candidate in the NSW...

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Encouraging suicide or committing manslaughter?

  • Written by: Marilyn McMahon, Deputy Dean, School of Law, Deakin University
Encouraging suicide or committing manslaughter?A 69-year-old man is in jail for encouraging his wife to commit suicide so he could get the $1.4 million from her life insurance policies.

Jennifer Morant, 56, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in her car in November 2014. Last month, a jury found her husband, Graham Morant, 69, guilty of two crimes under section 311 of Queensland’s Criminal...

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Origins and implications of the caravan of Honduran migrants

  • Written by: Sharon McLennan, Lecturer in International Development, Massey University
Origins and implications of the caravan of Honduran migrantsMembers of the migrant caravan, mostly Hondurans, cross a river that separates Guatemala and Mexico. EPA/Esteban Biba , CC BY-ND

Honduras is a wonderful place for a short visit, despite its reputation as a one of the most dangerous places on the planet. It is a small, beautiful country with an abundance of natural resources and a warm, welcoming...

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  1. How tracking people moving together through time creates powerful data
  2. Australia and China push the 'reset' button on an important relationship
  3. How a Sri Lankan student's arrest on terror charges exposes a system built to suspect minorities
  4. Don't give up on politics. It's where the fight for the fair go must be won
  5. 100 years since the WW1 Armistice, Remembrance Day remains a powerful reminder of the cost of war
  6. It's time Australia's conscientious objectors of WW1 were remembered, too
  7. how Australia's war art scheme fed national mythologies of WW1
  8. The benefits – and pitfalls – of working in isolation
  9. How the open banking API could transform financial services to benefit consumers
  10. One in four Australians are lonely, which affects their physical and mental health
  11. Before replacing a carer with a robot, we need to assess the pros and cons
  12. Chris Ho and Edgar Liu about diversity and high density in our cities
  13. Why we distrust the consumer price index
  14. If Australia cares about Pacific nations, we should also invest in their care givers
  15. Turnbull tells Liberals to answer that unanswerable question
  16. How to keep slave-caught seafood off your plate
  17. how massive solar eruptions 'probably' detonated dozens of US sea mines
  18. why atrocity tourism is neither new nor weird
  19. What it means when scientists say their results are 'significant'
  20. is the world's oldest rock art in Southeast Asia?
  21. Little Women at 150 and the patriarch who shaped the book's tone
  22. Learning music early can make your child a better reader
  23. The Google walkout is a watershed moment in 21st century labour activism
  24. why many are using painkillers for emotional relief
  25. Who wins and who loses when platforms like Airbnb disrupt housing? And how do you regulate it?
  26. Morrison to unveil broad suite of measures to boost Australia's influence in the Pacific
  27. Democrats take House at US midterm elections, but Republicans keep Senate; Labor well ahead in Victoria
  28. Andrew Giles on the growing issue of loneliness
  29. It's not quite a 'red wave', but the US midterms show the power of Trump's divisive messages
  30. Will the arrival of El Niño mean fewer mosquitoes this summer?
  31. No butts – it’s time to help people with mental health conditions quit smoking
  32. Why Scott Morrison's white, male music playlists matter
  33. Let's not focus on graduate incomes when assessing the worth of education
  34. Morrison and Shorten reveal their positions on key foreign policy questions
  35. Are there living things on different galaxies?
  36. Why we should worry less about retirement
  37. If we're serious about supporting working families, here are three policies we need to enact now
  38. 69 pharmaceuticals found in invertebrates living in Melbourne's streams
  39. Chinese migrants follow and add to Australian city dwellers' giant ecological footprints
  40. David Malouf's An Open Book is poetry to sit with
  41. The curious case of the missing workplace teaspoons
  42. How we wiped out the invasive African big-headed ant from Lord Howe Island
  43. quetiapine, the antipsychotic 'sleeping pill' linked to overdoses
  44. who really owns the name and the knowledge
  45. Why do vegans have such bad reputations?
  46. are light dairy products better?
  47. Where are Chinese migrants choosing to settle in Australia? Look to the suburbs
  48. the earliest European image of Aboriginal Australians
  49. sports stadiums should benefit everyone, not just fans
  50. Initiative Q is not the new Bitcoin, but here’s why the idea has value

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