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Furious voters deliver their verdict, with government's huge Newspoll plunge

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

The voters have screamed their anger about the Liberals’ self-indulgent blood letting, in the first Newspoll after the coup. Labor’s two-party lead over the Coalition has jumped to 56-44%, a massive change from the 51-49% margin only a fortnight ago.

While Bill Shorten could never get his nose in front of Malcolm Turnbull as...

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Julie Bishop goes to backbench, Marise Payne becomes new foreign minister

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Julie Bishop goes to backbench, Marise Payne becomes new foreign ministerAfter five years as foreign minister, Julie Bishop will move to the backbench.AAP/Lukas Coch

Julie Bishop has chosen to go to the backbench, to be succeeded by Marise Payne as foreign minister, and the energy and environment portfolio has been split, in Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s ministry announced Sunday.

Dan Tehan replaces Simon...

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The Life to Come - this year's Miles Franklin winner

  • Written by: Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
The Life to Come - this year's Miles Franklin winnerAuthor Michelle de Kretser: she is interested in the hollowness behind the lives of her characters. Courtesy Perpetual/Copyright Agency/Martin Ollman.

Michelle de Kretser’s The Life To Come, which has won the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, begins with an epigraph from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame:

CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM:...

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The Lord Howe screw pine is a self-watering island giant

  • Written by: Matthew Biddick, PhD Researcher, Victoria University of Wellington
The Lord Howe screw pine is a self-watering island giantTo grow tall enough to reach the canopy, a species of screw pine unique to Lord Howe Island has evolved its own rainwater harvesting system.Matthew Biddick, CC BY-SA

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