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As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team.
Shall I order the chicken, or the salmon? What does the science say about reducing pressure on the environment? When you take a big-picture view, the results can be surprising.
Five years ago, Australia had 28,000 financial advisers. Today there are 16,000. So where can you get financial advice? A new report offers a good answer – and it’s something I used to argue against.
Research has found Aboriginal children who lived through the 2007 NT Intervention saw little impact from alcohol restrictions, other than bringing shame to communities.
Paul Dalgarno’s latest novel is a meditation on the sorrows that rip a family apart and a celebration of the love that threads it back together.
In the past, roses on Saint Valentine’s Day were something unexpected, and very expensive.
A growing source of global emissions is the ships that carry most of the goods we consume. A 21st-century generation of cargo ships propelled by the wind can reverse this unsustainable trend.
National electricity grids are vulnerable to extreme weather events and can leave entire regions without power. Microgrids can deliver better energy security in a warming world.
After shooting down a high-altitude Chinese balloon, the US has been on the alert for other aerial invaders.
Decades of government Indigenous Affairs policy has not delivered. A new approach is needed. Policy-making informed by Indigenous lived experience through a Voice to parliament may be the answer.
It is true failed referendums do not usually destroy governments, but they do have the potential to undermine leaders and governments.
Storms, flooding and other climate-related events highlight the urgent need for a national managed retreat framework. Past experiences suggests it will involve many challenges.
Love languages – the concept coined by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman some 30 years ago – has taken the relationships world by storm.
At the most basic level, the brain releases a cocktail of chemicals. But there’s more to it than that.
Several companies are in the process of commercialising invasive brain-computer interfaces, including Synchron, Neuralink and Precision Neuroscience.
With euthanasia laws proliferating around the world, Caitlin Mahar’s The Good Death Through Time is a valuable exploration of the history of our shifting views on dying well.
Australia’s education system is not doing that well in correcting for the disadvantage students face in the classroom.
Critically endangered grasslands and productive farmland in NSW would be cleared to lay the Hunter Gas Pipeline.
Now, as he grapples with the issue of the Voice, Dutton has to make a judgement about the symbolic significance of this latest test he faces.
But the fate of thousands of other refugees and asylum seekers in limbo in Australia remains uncertain.
Less than a quarter of disability services who responded to a workforce survey employed people with disability.
NAPLAN testing has been brought forward from May to March and results will be reported against just four levels of achievement.
Electric cars are now appearing on Australian roads. But can electric utes meet the more exacting needs of our tradies?
Both of the leading manufacturers have extensive links with the Chinese Communist Party, but it’s unclear whether they’d ever send data from Australia to China.