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Malcolm Turnbull's NEG remains in snake-infested territory

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

Malcolm Turnbull had a party-room victory but a god-awful week, and it wasn’t because his approval plunged in Monday’s Newspoll. His energy policy is back in the mire, and Tony Abbott is being – as one colleague neatly describes it – the agent of chaos.

It’s nearly unimaginable how the Coalition chooses to replay that...

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Australia has a long way to go on responsible gambling

  • Written by: Charles Livingstone, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

At the beginning of August, the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) released its sixth review into Crown Casino’s operations. The review made 20 recommendations, 11 of which referred to the provision of “responsible gambling”. In this area, the review indicated that Crown had lagged behind community...

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how modern comics preserve ancient myths

  • Written by: Louise Pryke, Lecturer, Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel, Macquarie University
how modern comics preserve ancient mythsGilgamesh (right) in his first appearance as an Avenger in the Marvel comic Avengers Vol 1 300Marvel Database

Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey, gave us what we could consider some of the earliest known literary “superheroes”.

One was the hero Lugalbanda,...

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The royal commission should result not only in new regulation, but new education

  • Written by: Dirk Baur, Professor of Finance, University of Western Australia

The Financial Services Royal Commission has not only shown that banks and their representatives have behaved appallingly, but that we need better-educated consumers.

It is naive not to expect new schemes will pop up to replace the now (or soon to be) banned practices. There is a clear pattern of repeating unconscionable behaviour in the financial...

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  2. Research suggests bigger banks are worse for customers
  3. Coming out at work is not a one-off event
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  5. is it possible to catch up on sleep?
  6. In the outrage over the Trump-Putin meeting, important questions were overlooked
  7. Aboriginal traditions describe the complex motions of planets, the 'wandering stars' of the sky
  8. Size isn't everything when it comes to the proposed UniSA-University of Adelaide merger
  9. Australia could house around 900,000 more migrants if we no longer let in tourists
  10. A ray of bipartisan good comes out of obscure senator's hate speech
  11. The world's 'most liveable city' title isn't a measure of the things most of us actually care about
  12. can sleeping too much lead to an early death?
  13. Why do we have tonsils?????
  14. How the moral lessons of To Kill a Mockingbird endure today
  15. What if we expected financial services to be more like health services?
  16. The 'Space Kingdom' Asgardia has its own flag and anthem, but a state it is not
  17. The devil is in the detail of government bill to enable access to communications data
  18. Why we're watching the giant Australian cuttlefish
  19. Melbourne and Adelaide have been Australia's most vulnerable major cities to killer heatwaves
  20. The renewable energy train is unstoppable. The NEG needs to get on board
  21. How women led the rise of professional work in the Australian economy
  22. Fractured Liberals need a new brand – 'broad church' is no longer working
  23. 'You don't belong to my country either.' How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home
  24. French classes in Australia need to acknowledge our Pacific neighbours too
  25. Why Australian prisoners are smoking nicotine-infused tea leaves
  26. Turnbull beats Abbott over NEG, now Frydenberg has to win Victoria
  27. Substance abuse treatment relies on good brain function, which many users don't have
  28. Matteo Garrone's Dogman needs more dogs
  29. Who writes science and technology stories? More men than women
  30. Ian Jacobs on universities, Australia's 'hidden' asset
  31. New data access bill shows we need to get serious about privacy with independent oversight of the law
  32. The Meg! When the (giant prehistoric) shark bites, the science bites back
  33. the worrying body-image pressures in the AFL
  34. Finance drives everything — including your insecurity at work
  35. Your colleagues are not dinosaurs – it's workplace routines that make innovation difficult
  36. Turnbull pushes the 'reset' button with China, but will it be enough?
  37. Time for the federal government to catch up on political donations reform
  38. Ten reasons teachers can struggle to use technology in the classroom
  39. Too many Australians have to choose between heating or eating this winter
  40. How far have we come since the ’80s vision of the 'non-sexist city'?
  41. Digital homework tools should be more than just the textbook as an app
  42. 'Natural disasters' and people on the margins – the hidden story
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  44. Abbott and Turnbull shape up for another round of an old battle
  45. Why the NAPLAN results delay is a storm in a teacup
  46. Facebook is all for community, but what kind of community is it building?
  47. Belarus Free Theatre's Generation Jeans resonates
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