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Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMalcolm Turnbull has bought himself immediate relief from the backbench revolt.Lukas Coch/AAP

When it comes to the Liberals and same-sex marriage, each “solution” seems to lead to a new problem.

Tony Abbott’s plebiscite became bad news for Malcolm Turnbull; now Turnbull’s postal vote – to ask people “Should the...

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Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump

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

This week’s Newspoll, conducted 3-6 August from a sample of 1640, gave Labor its sixth consecutive 53-47 lead. Primary votes were 36% Coalition (steady since last fortnight), 36% Labor (down 1), 11% Greens (up 2) and 8% One Nation (down 1). This is the Coalition’s 17th consecutive Newspoll loss under Turnbull; Abbott lost 30 in a row...

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Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you

  • Written by: Cassandra Cross, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Queensland University of Technology
imageOnline credit card fraud is on the rise in Australia. What can we do?Ti_ser/Shutterstock

Online credit card fraud is on the rise in Australia, but pointing the finger at any one group won’t help. It’s an ecosystem problem: from the popularity of online shopping, to the insecure sites that process our transactions, and the banks...

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Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?

  • Written by: Ryan Goss, Senior Lecturer in Law, Australian National University
imageThroughout Australian history, previous parliaments have changed the legal understanding of marriage – none needed a plebiscite.AAP/Lukas Coch

Whether or not federal parliament should amend the Marriage Act to allow same-sex couples to marry continues to prove much more complicated than it should be for the Coalition government.

On Monday, the...

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  2. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  3. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  4. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  5. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  6. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  7. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  8. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  9. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  10. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  11. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  12. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  13. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  14. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  15. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  16. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  17. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  18. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  19. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  20. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  21. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  22. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  23. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  24. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  25. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  26. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll
  27. Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help
  28. Queensland Galaxy 51-49 to Labor, but Palaszczuk's ratings slump
  29. Allegations against the CBA show the need for a Royal Commission into the banks
  30. NAPLAN results show it isn’t the basics that are missing in Australian education
  31. Trump-Turnbull call: trading people like pawns undermines the goals of international co-operation
  32. The dangers of leaving home: UK WannaCry ransomware hero arrested in the US
  33. Bottom of the canal: Pfizer's billion-dollar tax ploy
  34. Turnbull's promise to Trump: 'You can count on me'
  35. Climate change to blame for Australia's July heat
  36. Transcript of Trump-Turnbull call shows just how hard it'll be to deal with the president
  37. Another attack on the Bureau, but top politicians have stopped listening to climate change denial
  38. Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking
  39. Country rules: the ‘splinternet’ may be the future of the web
  40. The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there's too much at stake
  41. Five quotes from the Turnbull-Trump call show the folly of Australia's refugee policy
  42. Greg Hunt's plan to reduce hospital admissions won't work if he can't measure successes and failures
  43. Cricket pay saga a case study in how not to resolve industrial disputes in sport
  44. Friday essay: the photographer, the island and half a million lifejackets
  45. When it comes to sport, boys 'play like a girl'
  46. The right to bare arms: the history of Australian sex worker activism
  47. How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology
  48. Computer says no: robo-advice is growing but we still don't trust it
  49. As a coastal defence, the Great Barrier Reef’s value to communities goes way beyond tourism
  50. The Wonderful Weirdness of 'You're Not Alone'

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