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Jacinda Ardern to become NZ prime minister following coalition announcement

  • Written by: Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University
imageJacinda Ardern is set to become New Zealand's new prime minister.CC BY-ND

During the dim, distant past of New Zealand’s recent election campaign, soon-to-be-former prime minister Bill English grumbled that the “stardust” that was falling thick and fast on new Labour leader Jacinda Ardern would settle.

Well, it just has – in...

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Labour wins NZ election after backing from NZ First. Bankers' SA Galaxy: 31% Lib, 30% SA Best, 26% Labor

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne

The New Zealand election was held on 23 September, with final results released on 7 October. The conservative National won 56 of the 120 seats, Labour 46, the anti-immigrant populist NZ First 9, the Greens 8 and the right-wing ACT 1. As a result, the right held 57 seats and the left 54, with NZ First’s 9 seats required for a majority (61...

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By excluding Hannah Mouncey, the AFL's inclusion policy has failed a key test

  • Written by: Catherine Ordway, Senior Fellow (Sports Law Masters), University of Melbourne
imageEight teams will take to the field for the second AFLW season – but transgender woman Hannah Mouncey will not be among them.AAP/Dan Peled

Hannah Mouncey is a transgender female who wants to play in the Australian Football League’s women’s competition (AFLW). Virtually every Australian jurisdiction says an attempt to stop her doing...

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Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady and Cory Bernardi reflect on the marriage postal ballot

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

There are still a few weeks left to run in the same-sex marriage postal ballot campaign, and millions of votes are yet to be returned – or not returned.

With 67.5% of ballots now in, Equality Campaign executive director Tiernan Brady says the high turnout shows the importance of a “yes” vote to people’s lives and dignity.

He...

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  2. Making voting both simple and secure is a challenge for democracies
  3. Let Google bill you for all your electricity, gas, phone and every other utility
  4. Childhood heart disease has a profound impact and is under-recognised
  5. Gift cards often end up in the bin, but extending their life might not help
  6. What businesses can learn from sports about using algorithms
  7. Rape is a plot device in western literature, sold back to us by Hollywood
  8. Rising dragon: China's carbon market exposes Australia's energy paralysis
  9. The off-topic Conversation #139
  10. Memo to the IPA: history teaching is driven by student demand, not 'identity politics'
  11. Designing suburbs to cut car use closes gaps in health and wealth
  12. Is Victoria's sentencing regime really more lenient?
  13. Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100
  14. Mount Agung continues to rumble with warnings the volcano could still erupt
  15. Why our brain needs sleep, and what happens if we don’t get enough of it
  16. How gig economy workers will be left short of super
  17. Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on being an Incorrigible Optimist
  18. Banded stilts fly hundreds of kilometres to lay eggs that are over 50% of their body mass
  19. X, Y and the genetics of sex: Professor Jenny Graves awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2017
  20. Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?
  21. Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting
  22. Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly
  23. Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters
  24. The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role
  25. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  26. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  27. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  28. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  29. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  30. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  31. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  32. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  33. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  34. Why craft beer is going corporate
  35. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  36. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  37. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  38. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  39. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  40. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  41. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  42. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  43. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  44. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  45. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  46. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  47. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  48. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  49. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  50. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists

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