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how do you measure remorse?

  • Written by: Kate Rossmanith, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
how do you measure remorse?The courts are, or can be, theatres of remorse.Shutterstock

The first court case I ever observed belonged to a woman guilty of murder. She had deliberately run over a young man with her car. I had followed news reports of the trial, for the story seemed so strange, and had seen grainy CCTV footage: the vehicle lunging at the 21-year-old who darts...

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Pauline unplugged lets rip against Senate colleague

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Pauline unplugged lets rip against Senate colleaguePauline Hanson has had a spectacular meltdown on live television.Sky News

Pauline Hanson has had a spectacular meltdown on live television, sounding near hysterical as she denounced her Senate colleague Brian Burston, who has refused to follow her backflip on the government’s company tax cuts.

In an extraordinary Thursday night interview on...

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Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character

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

It’s obvious, but easily underestimated, that in politics judgement and temperament are key. Together with character, with which they’re often entwined, they are probably more important than high intelligence, or low cunning.

We just need to look at the federal scene today.

Barnaby Joyce provides the current case study about the...

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  1. Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality
  2. A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgments
  3. Australia's major dance companies need to step up on gender equality
  4. Like sightseeing in Paris – a new model for brain communication
  5. Winter is coming, and it's looking mighty mild
  6. 13 Reasons Why season 2 could still be problematic, but content warnings might help
  7. Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
  8. How children's picturebooks can disrupt existing language hierarchies
  9. Australia's foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned
  10. A new, data-based checklist to help boost women in science leadership
  11. Darwin's On the Origin of Species
  12. Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped off
  13. The future is fenced for Australian animals
  14. We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
  15. Labor to put test vote on phasing out live sheep trade
  16. Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics
  17. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  18. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air
  19. Michael McCormack on Barnaby's future, latte sippers and other matters
  20. Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment
  21. getting caught in a romance scam could cost you your life
  22. Accountability is key to building trust in Australia's intelligence community
  23. Australia's fragile grasslands at the Venice Biennale
  24. Coke has promised 'less sugar', but less is still too much
  25. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
  26. The bugs we carry and how our immune system fights them
  27. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
  28. Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
  29. Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but you
  30. It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
  31. Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
  32. Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader
  33. Barnaby Joyce takes personal leave after horror day
  34. Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)
  35. The BS and the science of nanotechnology
  36. Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert
  37. Newspoll asks skewed company tax cut question as Labor gains
  38. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  39. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  40. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  41. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  42. is it a white thing?
  43. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  44. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  45. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  46. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  47. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  48. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  49. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  50. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy

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