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Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageMalcolm Turnbull has reasserted this week that the Liberal Party needs to be in the 'sensible centre'.AAP/Lukas Coch

Now that the Liberals and commentators have overdosed on a debate about where the party’s founder stood on the centre-right spectrum, could someone go to a shopping centre and ask a dozen people under 40 who Robert Menzies was?

H...

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Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey

  • Written by: Michael West, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney
imageDespite global outrage at the cost of its Hepatitis C cure, Gilead reaps huge profits – aided by Australian taxpayer subsidies.Nick St Charles/flickr, CC BY

Like its Big Pharma peers, Gilead Sciences enjoys lavish taxpayer subsidies via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). It also makes large profits, but it pays little in the way of...

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Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives

  • Written by: Liam Magee, Senior Research Fellow, Digital Media, Western Sydney University
imageA Kolorob youth facilitator spreads the word in the Dhaka neighbourhood of Bauniabadh.www.kolorob.info

This is one of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne.


Digital platform companies like Facebook, Uber and Google regulate our likes, updates, schedules, locations, photos, jobs and trips. In the “world...

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The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world

  • Written by: Lucinda Beaman, FactCheck Editor, The Conversation
imageDelegates at Global Fact 4 in Madrid. IFCN/Mario Garcia

In the first week of July The Conversation joined media organisations from 53 countries at Global Fact 4, the fourth annual fact-checking summit hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network.

Among the 188 delegates in Madrid were journalists and editors from The Washington Post, BBC...

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