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Inner-city neighbourhood shows the way in protecting heritage of centuries past

  • Written by: Tony Matthews, Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University

This article is part of our Building on Heritage series on preserving heritage buildings and places while making them as sustainable as possible.

Conservation of built heritage protects buildings and spaces, but can also lead to confusion, contention or resentment. Property owners and planners clash when conservation strategies are perceived to...

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Grattan on Friday: Nationals force reluctant Turnbull to dress in Shorten's banking clothes

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Only a few months ago Bill Shorten would have thought that if he won the election he’d be delivering same-sex marriage and a royal commission into banks early in his government.

Now Malcolm Turnbull is bringing us both – in each case, his hand forced by a (different) group of rebel backbenchers.

The marriage bill, which will go through...

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Politics Podcast: Matt Canavan on divorce in the LNP and discipline in the Coalition

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Liberal National Party’s loss in the Queensland election has sparked demerger talk, while at a federal level it has emboldened the Nationals to take a more independent line.

Nationals federal cabinet minister Matt Canavan, who is a Queenslander, doesn’t agree that breaking up the LNP would solve any problems politically: “you...

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Dastyari saga shows the need for donations reform, and for politicians to take more care

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageLabor's Sam Dastyari has been sacked from his position as deputy whip for his poor judgement.AAP/Lukas Coch

New South Wales Senator Sam Dastyari has been appropriately disciplined by Labor leader Bill Shorten for exercising poor judgement in his interactions with a Chinese businessman who is not an Australian citizen.

Dastyari has been sacked from...

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  1. Why the big four asked for a parliamentary inquiry into banking
  2. Is the future for artists in crowdfunding?
  3. Bali's Agung – using 'volcano forensics' to map the past, and predict the future
  4. Do different drinks make you different drunk?
  5. It's 30 years since scientists first warned of climate threats to Australia
  6. Six things New Zealand's new government needs to do to make climate refugee visas work
  7. Dastyari demoted again – but government demands he leave parliament
  8. Banking royal commission will expose the real cost of bad behaviour
  9. Supporting part-time and online learners is key to reducing university dropout rates
  10. Tourists are stuck at the airport, but erupting Mt Agung has a deeper significance for the Balinese
  11. Queensland Liberals and Nationals have long had an uneasy cohabitation, and now should consider divorce
  12. How school has been used to control sovereignty and self-determination for Indigenous peoples
  13. Permission to laugh? Humour without risk of danger and offence would be an emaciated thing
  14. Blind in the mind: why some people can't see pictures in their imagination
  15. Sustainable re-use and recycling work for heritage buildings and places too
  16. Governments haven't always shirked responsibility for our low wages
  17. World-first continental acoustic observatory will listen to the sounds of Australia
  18. Labor's dark vision would bring $164 billion tax hit over decade: Morrison
  19. Government questions whether Dastyari fit to be a senator, in new row over Chinese donor
  20. How we found 112 'recovery reefs' dotted through the Great Barrier Reef
  21. Henry Reynolds: Triple J did the right thing, we need a new Australia Day
  22. Marriage bill clears Senate – now for the lower house
  23. Want to better understand Victoria's assisted dying laws? These five articles will help
  24. How 'brand you' came to be
  25. Withdrawing funding for hospitals' mistakes probably won't lead to better patient care
  26. Don Burke story reveals the pernicious culture of men protecting each other in the media
  27. The 2017 ARIA Awards are still off-key when it comes to gender
  28. Comic explainer: what is lone-actor terrorism?
  29. Why Victoria should rethink the abolition of defensive homicide
  30. Three charts on: poorer Australians bearing the brunt of rising housing costs
  31. What goes on inside a medically supervised injection facility?
  32. Indigenous cultural appropriation: what not to do
  33. Three new reports add clarity to Australia's space sector, a 'crowded and valuable high ground'
  34. Curious Kids: How do x-rays see inside you?
  35. Want to solve our STEM skills problem? Bring in the professionals
  36. A fresh start for climate change mitigation in New Zealand
  37. Explainer: why we shouldn't be so quick to trust energy modelling
  38. Heritage building preservation vs sustainability? Conflict isn't inevitable
  39. Here's how to keep up with the latest on Mt Agung, the Bali volcano
  40. Turnbull talks with rebel National on banks
  41. Australia's record on racial equality under the microscope
  42. The Queensland election outcome is a death knell for Adani's coal mine
  43. Starting next year, universities have to prove their research has real-world impact
  44. All hail new weather radar technology, which can spot hailstones lurking in thunderstorms
  45. In Bangarra's Ones Country, new voices show the many faces of Indigenous Australia
  46. No Don Burke, there is no link between autism and harassing behaviour
  47. Labor is right to block 'religious freedom' amendments to protect same-sex marriage bill
  48. Classifying 'national types of beauty': from cigarette cards to Miss Universe
  49. Low-income earners are more likely to die early from preventable diseases
  50. The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past

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