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Grattan on Friday: Turnbull's excoriation of Joyce has changed the game, but how?

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

In the most spectacular manner, Malcolm Turnbull has publicly trashed his relationship with Barnaby Joyce.

The results of what one Nationals source described as Turnbull’s “roll of the dice” at Thursday’s extraordinary news conference are unpredictable.

Turnbull gave his deputy prime minister no notice of the swingeing attack...

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Turnbull announces sex ban – and signals Joyce should consider his position

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

Malcolm Turnbull has announced that, from now, sexual relations between ministers and their staff will be prohibited under a change he has made to the ministerial code of conduct.

Addressing a news conference late on Thursday, Turnbull also strongly hinted he would like to see Barnaby Joyce step down.

Joyce had made “a shocking error of...

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When galaxies collide, size matters if you want to know the fate of our Milky Way

  • Written by: Geraint Lewis, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney
When galaxies collide, size matters if you want to know the fate of our Milky WayAn artist's impression of the predicted merger between our Milky Way (right) and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (left). So which galaxy will dominate?NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

Our Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy – two giant galaxies in our local patch of the universe – are heading...

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Barnaby Joyce dumped as acting prime minister next week

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

Malcolm Turnbull has delivered an effective vote of no-confidence in Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, announcing he will not be acting prime minister next week, but instead will go on a week’s leave.

This follows Turnbull telling parliament twice earlier this week that the Nationals leader would act in his place when he visits the US next...

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  11. The dystopian mash-up Altered Carbon is peak Anthropocene TV
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  14. Making sexual consent matter: one-off courses are unlikely to help
  15. Nationals rally behind Joyce's leadership but he is on notice
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  28. In Harley Windsor, Australia has its first Indigenous Winter Olympian – why has it taken so long?
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  34. Nationals president urges party: Don't act hastily on Barnaby
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