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Liberals plan for May election but Morrison might look better in March

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

While the Coalition took a hit in its two-party vote after the leadership change, the next few Newspolls will tell whether Scott Morrison - who’s started better than many anticipated - restores the government to the 49-51% position of Malcolm Turnbull’s last days.

That would still leave Labor election favourite, not least because the...

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what to do about the global pilot shortage

  • Written by: Stephen Fankhauser, Deputy Chair, Aviation Department, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology, Swinburne University of Technology
what to do about the global pilot shortageStudents in Australia who want to undertake a flight training degree need to find close to $35,000 upfront.Shutterstock

The world is running out of experienced pilots. Supply is not keeping up with the growing demand for air travel. In Australia the effects are already starting to bite.

Even flagship carrier Qantas is having problems. In recent...

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An insurance discount for your fitness data is a bad deal in the long run

  • Written by: Victoria J Palmer, Senior Research Fellow & Honorary Fellow (Applied Ethics) Melbourne Networked Society Institute, University of Melbourne
An insurance discount for your fitness data is a bad deal in the long runIn the brave new world of information capital, data collected from wearables and other technologies could be a slippery slope to a new social hierarchy.Shutterstock

John Hancock Insurance, the US division of Canadian insurance company Manulife, came under scrutiny last month for offering lower premiums to individuals who agreed to share their...

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  3. Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary fall from grace
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  5. How city squares can be public places of protest or centres of state control
  6. playing our finest songs to those lost on the Western Front
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  9. How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness
  10. what's the history of aircraft squawk codes and how do they work?
  11. States want the GST guarantee set in legislative stone
  12. Clare O'Neil on Labor's listening tour for banking victims
  13. finally, another woman awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics
  14. 'Honeygate' deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated
  15. research finds that 40% of people over 50 drink too much
  16. Digitising social services could further exclude people already on the margins
  17. When unborn children are killed, how does the law deal with culpability?
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  19. Essays On Air: the politics of curry
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  21. our secret weapon to fight corruption
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  23. City + Empire contains wonderful objects but elides the bloody cost of imperialism
  24. The vocational education sector needs a plan and action, not more talk
  25. Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing
  26. Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other services
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  29. Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complex
  30. How two 1990s discoveries have led to (some) cured cancers, and a Nobel Prize
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  33. Labor to hold its own 'hearings' for bank victims
  34. Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members matters
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  38. A new national set of priorities for VET would make great social and economic sense
  39. Satellite measurements of slow ground movements may provide a better tool for earthquake forecasting
  40. Why the media needs to be more responsible for how it links Islam and Islamist terrorism
  41. Three simple steps to fix our banks
  42. Retraction of a journal article doesn't make its findings false
  43. Hayne holds fire, but the banks' day of reckoning is coming
  44. The NDIS is delivering 'reasonable and necessary' supports for some, but others are missing out
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  46. what is Pentecostalism, and how might it influence Scott Morrison's politics?
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