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Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case

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

The government’s pursuit of Bill Shorten over a 2005 donation to GetUp has again come back to bite it, as Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash seeks to avoid a court appearance about last year’s police raids on Australian Workers Union offices.

Cash has been subpoenaed to appear in the AWU’s case against the Registered Organisations...

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Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air

  • Written by: Liz Giuffre, Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney
Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh airRoseanne Barr at an event for the 75th Golden Globe Awards this year.2018 Kevork Djansezian/NBC/idmb

Earlier this year, ABC America successfully relaunched 1980s sitcom Roseanne. The show’s 2018 return was funny and found a very large, free-to-air broadcast audience. Indeed it was a sitcom revival that seemed to return an audience to...

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Michael McCormack on Barnaby's future, latte sippers and other matters

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

With yet another round of the Barnaby Joyce affair distracting the government, the next question will be whether the beleaguered MP runs again in his New England seat at the election.

In this interview with The Conversation, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack pointedly avoids saying Joyce should do so.

“That’ll...

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Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment

  • Written by: Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environmentCrowdfunded campaigns to save the orange-bellied parrot are a rare ray of hope.Fatih Sam

If not for the public’s generosity, the iconic Statue of Liberty might not have the solid and impressive footing she does today. In the late 1800s, government funds for the monument were exhausted. Yet through a fundraising campaign, the New York World...

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  1. getting caught in a romance scam could cost you your life
  2. Accountability is key to building trust in Australia's intelligence community
  3. Australia's fragile grasslands at the Venice Biennale
  4. Coke has promised 'less sugar', but less is still too much
  5. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
  6. The bugs we carry and how our immune system fights them
  7. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
  8. Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
  9. Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but you
  10. It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
  11. Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
  12. Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader
  13. Barnaby Joyce takes personal leave after horror day
  14. Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)
  15. The BS and the science of nanotechnology
  16. Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert
  17. Newspoll asks skewed company tax cut question as Labor gains
  18. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  19. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  20. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  21. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  22. is it a white thing?
  23. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  24. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  25. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  26. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  27. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  28. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  29. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  30. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy
  31. what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
  32. Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond
  33. Independent crossbencher Steve Martin joins Nationals, giving the party a Tasmanian presence
  34. The off-topic Conversation #161
  35. The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum
  36. how traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping
  37. why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
  38. Why CEOs need to embrace fear
  39. why infectious diseases are so much more harmful to isolated peoples
  40. why reducing the number of subjects isn't the answer
  41. The IOC thinks eSports are too violent for the Olympics, but traditional sports are violent too
  42. Summit on, then off, now on again? The seemingly endless game-playing of US-North Korea relations
  43. New Zealand's hoki fishery under scrutiny after claims of fish dumping, misreporting
  44. Airport-dwelling magpies get in less of a flap about planes, and that could be good or bad
  45. Demasi cleared, but images in science continue to attract intense scrutiny
  46. Michelle Grattan on Labor's byelection bother
  47. Why some migrants in abusive relationships don't receive help, and are deported
  48. why, and what can we do about it?
  49. Australia's deal with Timor-Leste in peril again over oil and gas
  50. Dugong and sea turtle poo sheds new light on the Great Barrier Reef's seagrass meadows

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