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Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberals were "subject to threats" in leadership battle

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

The Liberal party row over bullying has deepened, with the Minister for Women, Kelly O'Dwyer, declaring that MPs endured threats and intimidation during the leadership crisis.

At the same time a Liberal backbencher, Lucy Gichuhi, has flagged she is willing to out people when parliament resumes next week. She said she could not do it outside...

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To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stick

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stickInterviewed on 2GB Morrison seized on an offensive Father’s Day tweet from John Setka, Victorian state secretary of CFMMEU’s construction and general division.Joe Castro/AAp

Scott Morrison has fired a broadside at the bad guys of the union movement - those lodged within the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union.

Interv...

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What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?

  • Written by: Emma Beckett, Postdoctoral Fellow (Human Molecular Nutrition), School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?Fake honey products have been found in Australia.hounddiggity/Flickr

Australia has been rocked this week by reports that many products labelled as honey are actually fake or “adulterated” honey.

Capilano, Australia’s largest honey producer, has been accused of selling products mixed with cheaper syrups. But Capilano has hit back,...

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When I met James Mirrlees, perhaps the word's greatest tax theorist

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW

Tax is just a matter of taking the most from those with the greatest capacity to pay, right? Or is it a matter of taking the most from the people least able to resist? In Australia we attempt to do both, pretty successfully, due in large part to work of Sir James Mirrlees, the most distinguished British economist of his generation who passed away...

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  8. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
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  20. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
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