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New Zealand’s new government wants the central bank to focus on maximising employment. But experience from other countries shows this is unlikely to change policy.
If the predicted strong preferences from One Nation to the LNP occur at the Queensland election, it would be bad news not just for state Labor, but also federal Labor.
A new survey reveals that while most young Australians get news from online sources, they lack the skills to distinguish fake news.
Canada is suing tobacco companies for health costs, should Australia follow suit?
In 1921 the US imposed strict immigration quotas on Australians and detained the excess arrivals in terrible conditions. Contrast this with today’s treatment of asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru.
Emotional and economic abuse in relationships are often intertwined as people who insult and shame their partners will also try to control their income and assets.
Toronto has entered a joint venture with a Google sister company to create a high-tech urban development area. The goal is to ‘re-imagine cities from the internet up’ – Google’s internet, of course.
No human has been to the moon since 1972. But India, China and Russia would like to change that, and soon.
While the fashion industry may want to address worker exploitation in their supply chains, it would open them up to tremendous legal liability. This needs to change.
What’s still missing in the religious freedoms debate is any clarity around what people think they won’t be able to do, or where the existing laws are likely to fail to protect them.
The polls are showing a close contest in the Bennelong byelection between the Liberals’ John Alexander and Labor’s Kristina Keneally.
The gender pay gap is declining in Australia, although that probably has more to do with underlying economic conditions than anything else.
The Don Dale royal commission’s capacity to make lasting change lies with the government implementing its recommendations.
Michelle Grattan and Nick Klomp discuss the week in politics.
A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.
By taking on the role as leader in space traffic management, Australia can gain international power and exploit commercial opportunities.
Amazon this week purchased the global rights to J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings to turn it into a television series. What are the implications for Australia’s content and its global reach?
There are about 400-600 people in the now-defunct regional processing centre refusing to move to recently built transit centres in Lorengau – but these numbers shift daily.
Some people may think it’s the duty of their MP to vote in the way they do. But political theory shows this doesn’t work.
As Orwell knew only too well, if the concept of objective truth is moved into the dustbin of history there can be no lies. And if there are no lies there can be no justice, no rights and no wrongs.
The failed attempt to reinstate land clearing regulations in Queensland has prompted ‘panic clearing’, pushing Australia into the global top-ten deforesters.
Changing the Constitution is the only way to draw a line under this chaos.
Over the past half century, Australia has experienced a ‘time revolution’ with Indigenous history pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. The latest discovery reminds us that science, like history, is an ongoing inquiry.
In the US “liar loans” have been identified as one of the key reasons behind the 2008 financial crisis. But how big a problem are poor loan checking practices in Australia?