Channel Nine political editor Chris Uhlmann has accused elements of the media of ‘waging a war against the prime minister of Australia’.
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News Corp, Sky News and 2GB have contributed to the creeping ‘Foxification’ of Australian politics over the life of the Turnbull government.
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Australia has one of the most secure electoral systems imaginable thanks to paper ballots. Cybersecurity experts caution against e-voting.
Recently Telstra, the big four banks, and the ABC have used technology to replace workers.
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Management trumps technology in making companies productive, but that doesn’t mean firms can be complacent when it comes to keeping up with change.
Dutton can mobilise his conservative base on race and crime, but what about the broader electorate?
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Whoever ends up the Liberal prime minister will need to articulate a more coherent economic policy to help everyday Australians.
What you tell your children about your impending divorce should depend on their age.
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Telling your children you and your partner aren’t going to be together anymore is a significant change in their lives.
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In 2017 18.8 million people were displaced by natural disasters, with floods accounting for 8.6 million. Climate change is poised to drive those numbers higher still.
The Miles Franklin authors with their novels, clockwise from top left: Felicity Castagna, Eva Hornung, Kim Scott, Michelle de Kretser, Catherine McKinnon and Gerald Murnane.
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For many years, the Miles Franklin award was a bastion of monoculture. But this year’s stories are a diverse reflection of Australia.
We don’t have the full skeleton of a Denisovan so we don’t really know what they looked like.
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Ancient DNA in a 50,000+ year old bone tells us that two species of early humans did produce offspring together.
Our collections are a part of us and our life story, and the act of collecting holds a certain comfort.
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Retailers have cleverly tapped into the psychological need many of us have to collect, in some cases, mundane everyday items.
Network map of accounts within #auspol tweets mentioning or linking to Russian propaganda outlets, Sputnik and RT, May 4 – July 30, 2018.
A lot of attention has been focused on Russia’s efforts to influence American politics, but Australia has also been a target – and continues to be a target – of covert foreign influence.
The government is now firmly focused on lowering household power bills.
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Australians are angry about electricity prices and both the federal government and opposition are proposing to cap them. Will this approach work, and what are the risks?
A real fire in southern New South Wales - not to be confused with the metaphorical one in the halls of Canberra.
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With New South Wales suffering winter bushfires and temperature records tumbling around the globe, our leaders in Canberra have picked a bad time to jettison climate policy in favour of political bickering.
A protestor outside the Virginia courtroom where Paul Manafort was convicted of fraud on Tuesday.
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The legal travails of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen bring the Mueller investigation into the White House.
Medical and mental health professionals and refugee rights groups are all calling for urgent care for children affected by trauma on Nauru.
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A boy has been flown to Australia from Nauru for urgent medical treatment for suspected resignation syndrome.
Gary Cooper as Uncle Harvey in Skylab. He offers a powerful performance as a man consumed by anger concerning the past treatment of his people.
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In 1979, the American satellite Skylab crashed in Western Australia. A new play imagines what happened to an Aboriginal family nearby.
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The Verdins principles affect the way offenders with mental health problems are sentenced in a court of law.
Being assigned overseas is no longer a career choice for a single breadwinner, but involves compromises between couples or within families.
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The rise of professional couples has added to the complexity of ensuring overseas assignments are a success for both employer and employee.
To become prime minister, Turnbull made himself a willing hostage at the outset to right-wing policies that contradicted his political persona.
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In staying hostage to this right-wing lunge, rather than fighting to move it back to the mainstream, Turnbull erased his moderate face, destroying his only utility – electoral utility – to the Liberals.
Different types of meditation can decrease our stress levels to varying degrees.
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Meditation and yoga affect the brain’s stress response system to help us feel more relaxed. They can even lower our blood pressure.
Successive governments have seen the Great Barrier Reef not just as a scientific wonder, but as a channel to further economic development.
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The $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has been criticised as a politically calculated move. But governments have been asking what the reef can do for them ever since colonial times.
The glass slippers in Disney’s 2015 film version of Cinderella.
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There is nothing new about a shoe fetish. Fairy tales have long featured amazing, high-tech footwear: from seven-league boots to glass slippers to red shoes.
The US planted a flag on the moon in 1969 – but it was only symbolic.
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No country can lay claim to sovereignty over a planet, moon or rocky body. But in the absence of clear laws regulating mining in space, it’s a case of first in, best dressed for resource extraction.
The dominant belief among Australian university students now is that God had no hand in creating or developing humans.
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According to our 32-year longitudinal study of first year science students, belief in creationism has declined over time.
Selection panels interrupt women more than men and ask them more follow-up questions, subtly questioning their competence.
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The vast majority of managers said they wanted “the best person for the job”. They had less idea of just who that might be, or how to ensure appointments on merit and equity targets co-exist.
There are more than 50,000 public bridges in Australia. (The Sea Cliff bridge is one Australia’s newer bridges, built in 2005).
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Australian bridges are generally safe, but we don’t have transparent information about how often they’re inspected or maintained.