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What makes a winning mogul skier like Matt Graham?

  • Written by: Keith Lyons, Adjunct Professor of Sport Studies, UC-RISE, University of Canberra
What makes a winning mogul skier like Matt Graham?What makes the mogul discipline distinctive is that it is both a judged event and a timed event.EPA/Sergei Ilnitsky

On Monday, Matt Graham won Australia’s first medal – a silver – at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the freestyle moguls.

Graham’s second placing is the third time an Australian has won a medal in the event at...

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Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?

  • Written by: Brian Howe, Professorial Associate in the Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne
Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?

In Australia, the idea of a universal basic income has floated in and out of our political arena for years, but remains only that, an idea.

The concept of a universal basic income has always been controversial. This notion - that the government should pay everyone a regular payment to meet their basic needs, despite their income - has been touted...

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Why the Jacquie Lambie Network's Tasmanian health plan doesn't add up

  • Written by: Helen Dickinson, Associate Professor, Public Service Research Group, UNSW
Why the Jacquie Lambie Network's Tasmanian health plan doesn't add up

The polls are predicting a hung parliament in Tasmania’s March 3 election. So it’s not surprising that key political players are starting to jockey for position. The Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) has stepped into this fray, demanding control of the health ministry in return for providing a guarantee of confidence and support to a...

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How snow-deprived Aussies can win in snowboard cross and ski-cross in Pyeongchang

  • Written by: Jade Haycraft, PhD Candidate, Victoria University

Australia’s Steven Bradbury is famous for winning Olympic gold through being the last man standing in the 1000m short-track speed skating event in 2002.

In snowboard cross and ski-cross, the “fall factor” also impacts an athletes chance at medalling. But for Aussies to succeed in these two categories at Pyeongchang 2018,...

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  1. Guide to the classics: Sappho, a poet in fragments
  2. Key workers like nurses and teachers are being squeezed out of Sydney. This is what we can do about it
  3. Same-sex marriage is legal, so why have churches been so slow to embrace it?
  4. Politics podcast: Brian Howe on revisiting Henderson, poverty and basic income
  5. Queensland Nationals Barry O'Sullivan's advice on the Joyce affair: 'don't shoot your best horse'
  6. Australia is missing the Closing the Gap employment target by decades
  7. I'm not overweight, so why do I need to eat healthy foods?
  8. Bad politics shouldn't sink good ideas for public interest journalism
  9. Predictive algorithms are no better at telling the future than a crystal ball
  10. Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closing
  11. Fixing cities' water crises could send our climate targets down the gurgler
  12. Live from Pyeongchang: how an Olympic broadcast works
  13. Closing the gap on Indigenous education must start with commitment and respect
  14. To close the health gap, we need programs that work. Here are three of them
  15. Why the Commonwealth should resist meddling in schools
  16. Science Meets Parliament doesn't let the rest of us off the hook
  17. Curious Kids: why doesn't lava melt the side of the volcano?
  18. Banks and financial providers one step ahead of consumers who struggle with personal bias
  19. Governments can't be trusted to deliver welfare standards for chickens
  20. The rise and fall of Ben Ean Moselle and what it says about Australian society
  21. King tides and rising seas are predictable, and we're not doing enough about it
  22. US approach to security is deeply troubling – and it's not just about Trump
  23. Closing the Gap results still lag, as Shorten pledges compensation fund for Stolen Generations
  24. Labor moves in on the Barnaby Joyce affair
  25. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the private lives of our politicians
  26. Health Check: how can extreme heat lead to death?
  27. Two Koreas working together on Winter Olympics is a small but important step toward peace
  28. Hidden depths: why groundwater is our most important water source
  29. Five active volcanoes on my Asia Pacific 'Ring of Fire' watch-list right now
  30. Kokoda Track blockade alludes to deeper development issues in Papua New Guinea
  31. How copyright law is holding back Australian creators
  32. Sustainable shopping: your guilt-free guide to flowers this Valentine's Day
  33. Public hospital blame game – here's how we got into this funding mess
  34. Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales
  35. Vital Signs: future expectations causing sharemarket gyrations and interest rate doubts
  36. Proposed new regulations for 3D printed medical devices must go further
  37. The larrikin as leader: how Bob Hawke came to be one of the best (and luckiest) prime ministers
  38. This is how WestConnex can deliver Sydney a better city centre
  39. Friday essay: ‘It’s not over in the homes’ – impotence, domestic violence and former POWs
  40. Grattan on Friday: Is Barnaby's baby a matter of public interest or just of interest to the public?
  41. World-first genetic analysis reveals Aussie white shark numbers
  42. Does a sugar tax cause alcohol sales to spike? The research doesn't give a decisive answer
  43. Whistleblowers still in the firing line from foreign influence and official secrets laws
  44. I've been diagnosed with iron deficiency, now what?
  45. Politics podcast: Mark Dreyfus on changing the government's foreign interference bill
  46. The off-topic Conversation #151
  47. Closing the gap in Indigenous literacy and numeracy? Not remotely – or in cities
  48. CBA's board needs to take ultimate responsibility for the bank's failings
  49. Sense, think, act: the principle that governs everything from rocket landings to interest rates
  50. 2018 Winter Olympics set to begin against the backdrop of warm words and cold politics

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