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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the dual citizenship cases in the High Court

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageAAP/Lukas Coch

The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Michael de Percy discuss the week in politics, including the High Court date for the dual citizenship cases, whether Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash should stand aside from their ministerial duties, the early signs for the same-sex marriage postal vote, Labor’s campaign on...

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WA bathes in sunshine but the poorest households lack solar panels – that needs to change

  • Written by: Rebecca Cassells, Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
imageSolar panels are still a rarity in WA's lower-income areas.Orderinchaos/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Many Western Australian householders are living in “energy poverty”, according to our new Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre research report, Power to the People: WA’s Energy Future.

Although average household spending on electricity,...

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Was embracing the market a necessary evil for Labour and Labor?

  • Written by: Keshia Jacotine, MPhil Candidate and Teaching Associate in Politics, Monash University
imageWayne Swan has drawn a parallel between the the ALP's 'Laborism' and New Labour's 'Third Way' in the UK.Number 10/flickr, CC BY-NC

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing...

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Fair Game? The audacity of Héritier Lumumba

  • Written by: Chelsea Bond, Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS Unit), The University of Queensland
imageHeritier Lumumba describes his experience of racism at Collingwood Football Club in Fair Game.SBS

In what’s been labelled a “controversial new documentary”, SBS’s forthcoming series Fair Game provides a firsthand account of former AFL player Héritier Lumumba’s search for identity as a Black man, and how he...

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  2. The off-topic Conversation #133
  3. Speaking with: John Gerrard on preventing infectious diseases
  4. Australians can be denied life insurance based on genetic test results, and there is little protection
  5. Friday essay: TV's troubling storylines for characters with a mental illness
  6. Business Briefing: the 'get rich quick scheme' influencing what you buy
  7. Vital Signs: don't expect much from the central bankers at Jackson Hole
  8. New budget standards show just how inadequate the Newstart Allowance has become
  9. Finkel's Clean Energy Target plan 'better than nothing': economists poll
  10. Written in stone: the world's first trigonometry revealed in an ancient Babylonian tablet
  11. Getting serious on roads reform is one way our political leaders can get back on track
  12. Grattan on Friday: A No vote in marriage ballot would be a humiliation for Turnbull
  13. Explainer: what exactly must companies disclose to investors?
  14. High Court sets dual citizenship hearings for October
  15. Legalising same-sex marriage will help reduce high rates of suicide among young people in Australia
  16. Singing death: why music and grief go hand in hand
  17. The great divide where religious beliefs and the law meet
  18. Terminator 2 in 3D reminds us what we've still to learn about AI and robotics
  19. Ethnic religious communities may be the 'No' campaign's secret weapon in same-sex marriage fight
  20. The politics of public monuments: it's time Australians looked at what, and whom, we commemorate
  21. Expansion of cashless welfare card shows shock tactics speak louder than evidence
  22. Meet the woman who can lay claim to being Australia's first female judge
  23. From flatscreen TVs to your smartphone: the element boron deserves more attention
  24. What's equity got to do with health in a higher-density city?
  25. Antarctic ice reveals that fossil fuel extraction leaks more methane than thought
  26. Capturing the true wealth of Australia’s waste
  27. Religion in Australian schools: an historical and contemporary debate
  28. Successful people would leave Australia under 'socialist' Shorten: Cormann
  29. Banks shouldn't underestimate the risk of concentration in the housing market
  30. Beer, bongs and baby boomers: the unlikely tale of drug and alcohol use in the over 50s
  31. The Rape of Lucretia: a deconstructed tale of civic and personal virtue
  32. 'No religion' and Jedi Knight find their place in Australian identity
  33. Science fiction helps us deal with science fact: a lesson from Terminator's killer robots
  34. Australian census data show collapse in citizenship uptake by New Zealanders
  35. I was stabbed 14 times at the hospital where I work. I survived, but not everyone is so lucky
  36. To Christians arguing 'no' on marriage equality: the Bible is not decisive
  37. More of us could work in part-time roles if they were designed better
  38. When the Bullin shrieked: Aboriginal memories of volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago
  39. Hype and cash are muddying public understanding of quantum computing
  40. Why investor-driven urban density is inevitably linked to disadvantage
  41. Curious Kids: Where does my poo go when I flush the toilet? Does it go into the ocean?
  42. What blackout? How solar-reliant power grids passed the eclipse test
  43. Help support The Conversation US at SXSW
  44. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings fall back
  45. Government urges the High Court to hear citizenship cases in mid-September
  46. Why China is cracking down on overseas investment
  47. Mea culpa: Lessons learned from firefighting
  48. Sea the possibilities: to fight climate change, put seaweed in the mix
  49. Beyond bollards: protecting crowded places means not letting the exceptional become the norm
  50. Finkel's Law: robots won't replace us because we still need that human touch

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