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Conservatives have captured Turnbull for culture war crusade

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

Malcolm Turnbull is now, it seems, wholly owned by the conservatives in the Liberal Party and their strident media allies. His capitulation to them over 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act has been as revealing as it has been dramatic.

It has highlighted that Turnbull is, when it comes down to it, a transactional politician, one who these days...

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Coalition rebounds in Newspoll following Snowy announcement, but Essential moves to Labor

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

This week’s Newspoll, conducted 16-19 March from a sample of 1820, has Labor leading 52-48, but this is a 3 point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes are 37% for the Coalition (up 3), 35% for Labor (down 2), 10% for One Nation (steady) and 9% for the Greens (down 1).

Despite the relatively...

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Section 18C change appears doomed in Senate

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

Malcolm Turnbull has announced a watering down of the controversial Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, in a major victory for the conservatives in the Liberal Party.

Under the proposal the words “offend, insult, humiliate” will be replaced by “harass”. The word “intimidate” will remain.

Turnbull argued...

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Putting a dollar value on how much employees are willing to put their own interests first

  • Written by Danny Samson, Professor of Management (Operations Management), University of Melbourne
imageEmployees in the study were willing to put their own interests before their employers for money.www.shutterstock.com

Up to 95% of employees in our study put their own interests before those of their employer. This was even true even if the employee stood to gain just a small fraction of what the company could have – some workers would forgo...

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  1. How healthy soils make for a healthy life
  2. After the Catalyst arts funding mess, many questions remain
  3. To be ill is human: why normalising illness would make it easier to cope with
  4. Homophobia is harmful to workers and businesses
  5. The government's multicultural statement is bereft of new ideas or policies – why?
  6. Interculturalism: how diverse societies can do better than passive tolerance
  7. How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action
  8. Apocalypse now: wifi and radiation sickness sweeping the world
  9. We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
  10. How we edit science part 2: significance testing, p-hacking and peer review
  11. After the robo-debt debacle, here's how Centrelink can win back Australians' trust
  12. Infographic: the truth behind Centrelink's waiting times
  13. Higher child support doesn't lead to welfare dependency for single mums
  14. When politicians listen to scientists, we all benefit
  15. Government needs to front up billions, not millions, to save Australia's threatened species
  16. What we may think are the healthiest bread and wrap options actually have the most salt
  17. Grammarians rejoice in the <br>$10 million comma</br>
  18. Secrecy on land titles registry sale helps keep bidders' tax haven links quiet
  19. How do you remember a rock god? The complicated legacy of Chuck Berry
  20. Contested spaces: the 'long-grassers', living private lives in public places
  21. Health Check: is sleepwalking problematic and can it be 'cured'?
  22. Government cracks down on secret company payments to unions
  23. When things go wrong in an automated world, would we still know what to do?
  24. With battery storage to the rescue, the Kodak moment for renewables has finally arrived
  25. Boards must do more to stamp out wrongdoing that damages trust in charities
  26. Planet or dwarf planet: all worlds are worth investigating
  27. Gas crisis? Energy crisis? The real problem is lack of long-term planning
  28. Women are dropping out of economics, which means men are running our economy
  29. Value capture: a good idea to fund infrastructure but not easy in practice
  30. How obesity causes cancer, and may make screening and treatment harder
  31. Why guaranteed Indigenous seats in parliament could ease inequality
  32. From pig hunting to quilting – why magazines still matter
  33. Free speech? It depends who you are, in Peter Dutton's view
  34. Why should we obey the law?
  35. How we edit science part 1: the scientific method
  36. Unpicking the labyrinth that is India's Adani
  37. Embracing the bots: how direct to consumer advertising is about to change forever
  38. Contested spaces: conflict behind the sand dunes takes a new turn
  39. South Australia's energy plan deals a blow to state-federal relations
  40. The power of 'our song', the musical glue that binds friends and lovers across the ages
  41. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the energy crisis
  42. Book review: Love, loss and madness in The Green Bell
  43. Economics isn't ideology-free and it's misleading to suggest it is
  44. Wide-ranging ban on gambling ads during sport broadcasts is needed to tackle problem gambling
  45. Stephen FitzGerald: Managing Australian foreign policy in a Chinese world
  46. Snowy Hydro gets a boost, but 'seawater hydro' could help South Australia
  47. Friday essay: from grotesques to frumps - a field guide to spinsters in English fiction
  48. Psychology turns to online crowdsourcing to study the mind, but it's not without its pitfalls
  49. There's no need to lock older people into nursing homes 'for their own safety'
  50. Why consumers fall for 'sales', but companies may be using them too much

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