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Solicitor-General supports Dutton's eligibility for parliament, but with caveats

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Solicitor-General supports Dutton's eligibility for parliament, but with caveatsPeter Dutton has been under an eligibility cloud, which appears to have been in part lifted by the Solicitor-General's advice.AAP/Lukas Coch

The Solicitor-General, Stephen Donoghue, has supported Peter Dutton’s eligibility to sit in the parliament, but with significant cautions.

The equivocation in the opinion, coming hours before the noon...

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The economics of Australia's too-common leadership spills

  • Written by: Brendan Markey-Towler, Researcher, The University of Queensland

At the end of another week of chaos in Canberra, we’re all asking why this keeps happening. Why are our leaders playing politics instead of governing?

A somewhat esoteric sub-field of economics known as Public Choice Theory suggests it really does come down to two things. First, the technological advances that have given politicians feedback...

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Liberals manage the ugliest, messiest leadership challenge in history

  • Written by: Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
Liberals manage the ugliest, messiest leadership challenge in historyWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Tolstoy’s famous remark in Anna Karenina may well apply to political parties: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

It certainly applies to spills. Each unhappy event is unique in its particular combination of ambition, rancour and absurdity. But the...

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the meaning of food in crime fiction

  • Written by: M. Jean Anderson, Associate Professor / Reader in French, Victoria University of Wellington
the meaning of food in crime fictionFood can serve many functions in crime fiction, from being used directly as a weapon to expressing cultural belonging, gender or class. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

In English, we might claim we could “murder a good steak”. Italian and Spanish speakers might “kill for a coffee”, and Germans refer to acute hunger as Mor...

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