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Below the Line Episode 11
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In the final episode of our election podcast before polling day, our expert panel interview a Facebook official on the online campaign, and discuss Morrison's mea culpa and last-minute housing policy.
Making promises add up just before an election carries risks. Labor says its no longer willing to wear them.
Labor’s election pledge for Medicare includes some additional funding, but to strengthen the system, it needs to improve people’s access to doctors.
The positive nexus between Morrison’s economic agenda and his masculine leadership image in 2019 may have now turned negative. This reinforces Labor narratives that he’s uncaring and a poor performer.
In the first week of the campaign we journeyed around the country with a team of politics experts. Now we retrace our steps to look at what’s happened since.
Both major parties’ schemes would put upward pressure on house prices – but not much. Here’s why, according to a former Australian Treasury official.
Three years ago, Australia was much more divided on climate and environmental issues. Unprecedented fires and floods might have changed minds, our new polling suggests.
The federal election presents an opportunity to promote plans for improving national disaster governance and resilience. But the silence on these issues in political debates has been remarkable.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart could close the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
We need both major parties to promise to enact it.
Caring work hasn’t been properly valued for a century, in part because it is thought of as women’s work
The battles in the most high-profile teal seats have become nail-biters as some “soft” voters in these previously safe Liberal heartland electorates are leaving their decisions until very late.
Below the Line Episode 10
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In this episode of our election podcast, our expert panel discuss the last leaders' debate, the latest polls and what might the future of the unsuccessful major party might look like.
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Chris Wallace, Associate Professor at the University of Canberra.
Voting is not just about getting a sausage sandwich and avoiding a fine. There are many reasons - historical, political and personal - to vote on or before May 21.
There are solutions to long surgery wait lists and workforce shortages, if the major parties had the bravery to commit to reform.
Despite Albanese’s campaign hiccups, at the end of this penultimate week, based on the objective evidence, the election appears to be his to lose.
A psychologist who has been researching internet trolling for seven years explains why people troll.
Experts and undecided voters from pubs across the country awarded the debate to Albanese, in what was a much more civil contest than the previous debate.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Politics, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director, La Trobe Asia and Professor, La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Government, Flinders University
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Executive Director, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
