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The government needs not just to hose down the Medicare scare but to drag the debate back onto economic ground.
Behind the sterile debate around the EU referendum is a troubled 40 year relationship.
Voters judge political parties as best we can. But the way political narratives are presented – with their heroes and villains, twists and triumphs – rewards archetypes rather than nuanced reality.
A new report offers recommendations for how to best reform the education system in India.
If we are to have a mature and sensible debate on Indigenous recognition, we must be more willing to embrace difficult issues and diverse perspectives.
Research shows that having experienced shareholders that use swing trading on boards is better for business, than the independent directors required by the ASX.
An important new study in the United States has found doctors who receive just one cheap meal from a drug company tend to prescribe a lot more of that company’s products.
You can’t just buy a radio telescope receiver off the shelf. So CSIRO has been hard at work building receivers for the world’s largest telescopes using the very latest technology.
Despite years of research, nobody knows how to provide evidence of an accurate result while keeping individual e-votes private.
The greater threats to our national public health system lie in the increasing role of consumer co-payments and the power of vested interests that stifle policy innovation in health.
There’s been a deafening silence in recent Australian elections over the environment. But it hasn’t always been the case.
The ups and downs of climate policy since the 2013 federal election.
Experts in the UK, US, India, Indonesia and NZ explain how Australia’s election is playing out abroad and what’s at stake for our neighbours and allies.
Without long-term solutions to the imbalance between incomes and house prices, Gen Ys face a lifetime of renting without the financial and emotional security of home ownership.
How would each of the major parties better regulate the finance and business sectors?
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo kept monkeys as pets and painted them often. They symbolised the children she couldn’t have and were worshipped as gods of fertility in Aztec times.
20% of surveyed early education educators said they want to leave their job due to low pay, volume of paperwork and feeling undervalued.
It is not too late to change the current direction of Australia’s NBN from one that just meets today’s demands, to one that we need for the future.
Value capture is touted as a way to fund infrastructure, but what actually is it?
How will the Brexit referendum work? And what distinguishes it from referendums that have been held in Australia?
They should be our pre-eminent national writing prizes. Instead, these awards bob on the vast sea of daily politics, occasionally getting dumped by a breaker.
About 8% of the population is unable to metabolise codeine, and a small number metabolise it at a much larger extent.
There’s rarely good news in conservation - but we’ve been studying a program that actually works.
Younger firms are voicing their support for a new type of long-term stock exchange, seeking investors in it for the long-haul.