Bill Shorten has found a way to keep Kim Carr in Labor’s shadow ministry by expanding his frontbench – to the fury of the left, which had withdrawn support for the Victorian senator.
A massive irrigation dam on the outskirts of Bourke.
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The Productivity Commission report finds that the agricultural industry is overburdened by red tape but there’s still no clear solution for the best type of regulation.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer records 265 deaths of suspected criminals and drug users between June 30, the day Rodrigo Duterte assumed office, and July 18.
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Just as there were winners and losers in Malcolm Turnbull’s ministerial reshuffle at the beginning of the week, there will be frontbench promotions and demotions in the Labor Party in the coming days.
The need for innovation, but what does it mean?
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The message of an exciting future through innovation and high-tech start-ups has failed to engage the Australian community.
There are calls for Australia to focus on early intervention strategies to steer young people away from the path to radicalisation in the wake of events like the Nice attack.
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The UK’s experience with its Prevent strategy over nearly a decade urges caution in how Australia should approach its own efforts to counter the threat of radicalisation.
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Wages are stagnating and women have not benefited nearly as much as men from earlier wage increases. And what if small business isn’t the powerhouse we’ve been led to believe? What recent HILDA data has to tell us about gender, income and work.
This approach will help concentrate efforts on evidence and value rather than ideologically based, slash-and-burn approaches.
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The government must do more to deliver a 21st-century health system – not just to improve its standing with voters but to meet the health needs of all Australians.
After a question from a Muslim audience member, Senator-elect Pauline Hanson said “your Grand Mufti won’t even come out and condemn the terrorist attacks that’s happened overseas”. Is that right?
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where the wisdom of the oracle was dispensed.
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Cicero asked: ‘how to become famous?’ Nero sought to know the timing of his death. The Oracle at Delphi offered pronouncements on all manner of topics - yet as with Google today, the question posed was as important as the answer.
The plan involves establishing two educational tracks for students to take.
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England’s apprenticeship levy will require employers with a payroll of over £3 million (A$5.2 million) to spend 0.5% of that on approved apprenticeships.
Italian migration to Australia is more temporary this time.
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Italians still want to migrate to Australia, but are encountering job exploitation.
The Western Distributor project announced by the Andrews government will benefit Melbourne’s suburban residents in the west and north, but inner-city elites are mobilising against it.
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It’s a project that creates benefits for Melbourne’s western suburbs and the state as a whole. But the inner-city elite don’t like it and recent experience suggests their opinion holds sway.
While very common and not too serious in kids, slapped cheek can be serious, and even fatal, if a foetus is infected through its mother.
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Scientists are working on a new method to cure cancer and have shown they can genetically program certain bacteria to invade the tumour cells of cancerous mice.
Apple-developed lessons help students learn to code on the same device the code will be used on.
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If you’re creating an app for an iPad, then why not create it on an iPad too. Is Apple’s Swift move to do this just another step towards the end of the personal computer?
Hundreds gathered on the steps of Victoria’s State Library to rally in support of same-sex marriage in June.
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A new UN report puts Australia in 20th place in the global effort to secure health, security and environmental sustainability across the world. Scandinavian nations lead the way, while Africa trails.
Ausgrid is not the first time a Chinese company has been interested in Australia’s energy.
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Australia has a long history of assests owned by Chinese companies like State Grid, which is in the running for Ausgrid, so there’s no cause for security concerns.
The higher your blood pressure, the greater your risk of a heart attack or stroke, but there are many other risk factors too.
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Almost half of pregnant Indigenous women smoke compared to one in eight in the non-Indigenous population. This means 7,000-9,000 Indigenous babies every year are exposed to smoking in the womb.
Trump and the Republican Convention were high on emotion.
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Donald Trump runs his campaign like reality television – high on emotion, low on substance. But that is the key to his appeal to many disenfranchised Americans.
Chia, acai, quinoa, guradji - our supermarket shelves are awash with superfoods. They may well be healthy but in attributing magical qualities to these products are we glossing over an often-exploitative global food system?