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Liberal MP confronts Turnbull over aged care decisions

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageRussell Broadbent has taken a stand on the way aged care places are allocated.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Senior Liberal backbencher Russell Broadbent has quit two parliamentary positions in protest at the government’s treatment of aged care in his electorate.

Broadbent, who holds the Victorian seat of McMillan, bluntly told Malcolm Turnbull at...

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Companies should take charge of the potential toxins in common products

  • Written by: Dana Cordell, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
imageHarmful chemicals in shampoo and other personal products can cause real harm once they're washed down the drain.Shutterstock

Every year thousands of new contaminants enter the market in common consumer products and are washed down our drains without treatment. They end up in the water we drink, the fish we eat, and other marine life. These...

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Juno mission unveils Jupiter’s complex interior, weather and magnetism

  • Written by: Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics Researcher, UNSW
imageThis enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s south pole and its swirling atmosphere was created by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko

The latest observations of the Juno spacecraft are helping astronomers uncover the true nature of Jupiter...

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After Uluru, we must focus on a treaty ahead of constitutional recognition

  • Written by: Gaynor Macdonald, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Sydney
imageA treaty would be an agreement that is rather like that of host and guest, with rights and responsibilities for each party.AAP/Joel Carrett

The Indigenous National Constitutional Convention concluded with the Uluru Statement. In contrast to the political expectation that it would simply support symbolic recognition of Indigenous people in the...

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  5. Curious Kids: Why do adults think video games are bad?
  6. Sydneysiders blame foreign investors for high housing prices – survey
  7. The government should pick towns, not industries, to fund
  8. Christianity does not play a significant role in Australian politics, but cultural conservatism does
  9. The science of taste, or why you choose fries over broccoli
  10. How we can help refugee kids to thrive in Australia
  11. The US quitting the Paris climate agreement will only make things worse
  12. Tax take shrinks as online accommodation agents rake it in
  13. GetUp raises nearly $200,000 in crowdfunding to campaign against Peter Dutton
  14. Newspoll steady at 53-47 to Labor. Plus UK and French elections
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  16. Review: Wonder Woman reinvigorates tired superhero conventions
  17. Trump demands a post-post-truth response
  18. Around the world, environmental laws are under attack in all sorts of ways
  19. Turnbull should deliver Gonski schools plan faster: Grattan Institute
  20. Improving Australia’s health requires better use of patient information
  21. Australia's videogames are inventive, acclaimed and world-class, so where's the government support?
  22. Fifty years on from the 1967 referendum, it's time to tell the truth about race
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  36. Not dead yet: how MP3 changed the way we listen to music
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  42. 'Liveable' Sydney has clear winners and losers
  43. The Manuka honey fight is one we have to have
  44. Manchester and the media: what coverage of the terrorist attack tells us about ourselves
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  47. Uluru call for constitutional First Nations Voice presents new challenge for Referendum Council
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