The government needs not just to hose down the Medicare scare but to drag the debate back onto economic ground.
Receiving votes from the internet is the easy part. Proving that you got the right result, while keeping votes private, is an unsolved problem.
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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.
Various scandals have forced the major parties in this election campaign to tackle policy on business and finance regulation.
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has left the way open for a possible change of portfolio in a re-elected Turnbull government – assuming he holds his seat.
Managing the same-sex marriage issue could be extremely difficult for Malcolm Turnbull after the election.
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The same-sex marriage debate, mostly at the margins of this campaign, has erupted between the parties and within the Liberals in a foretaste of the free-for-all a plebiscite would bring. Malcolm Turnbull…
Australia’s is spending billions of dollars a national infrastructure ‘that just about meets demand today’.
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How does Australia fare in science and research funding? Where have recent cuts been made? This infographic shows the state of science funding in Australia.
Cathy McGowan is a community-minded representative who seeks to build her electorate’s capacity to respond to rural challenges.
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Indi has a potentially large number of floating voters at the local scale, mirroring the situation nationally. What do the people of Indi think about issues of trust?
Many Indigenous communities have been enduring family violence crises with inadequate government support.
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The Greens have successfully cast themselves as the party of climate science. But to hit their climate goals they may need to become even more radical, by embracing technologies like nuclear power.
Malcolm Turnbull is surrounded by Aboriginal dancers as he attends the Kenbi Native land claim ceremony near Darwin.
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Malcolm Turnbull is at his best when he can rise above the overtly partisan fray. So it was on Tuesday that he gave one of the most powerful speeches of his campaign, at a hand-back ceremony marking the…
Medicare’s IT systems haven’t been carefully planned, they’re the product of an evolution of government policy.
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When a system is as complex as that of Medicare’s, it is going to be extremely expensive to rebuild and it is not possible to simply “retrofit” an off-the-shelf product from another company.
More than eight in ten Australians rate John Howard as having done a ‘very good’ or ‘reasonable’ job in handling foreign policy.
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Australians regard John Howard as the best living former or current prime minister in handling foreign policy.
Malcolm Turnbull and his colleagues have pointed $1 billion of the government’s existing green energy funding towards the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Coalition has ramped up the race to fund the Great Barrier Reef’s protection. All three major parties have promised hundreds of millions of dollars, but where from, and what will they be spent on?