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The government needs to better enforce the laws it creates, to protect franchise workers

  • Written by: Louise Thornthwaite, Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
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The government’s recent proposal to amend the Fair Work Act makes it clear franchisors will be punishable for breaches of industrial law, the like of which we’ve seen in scandals surrounding retail franchises. But there will still be problems in enforcing this law. This is because of the obstacles workers face in successfully pursuing...

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Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch

  • Written by: Liz Conor, ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
imageA fruit cart depicting a 'picanniny' child: such figures were popular at a time when Aboriginal children were being removed from their families.Author provided

imageauthor provided Fitzroy’s Union Hotel stands in red-bricked, retro-decorated elegance on an inner-city corner. It’s a popular spot for Melburnians: Greens have held meetings...

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Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis

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

Malcolm Turnbull will overfly Western Australia twice next week, when he makes a brief dash to Indonesia to attend a conference of Indian Ocean Rim leaders.

He has no plans to drop into Perth. It is reported the local Liberals weren’t much impressed with his one brief sortie into the state campaign. Is that Tony Abbott smiling through...

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  1. Climate change's signature was writ large on Australia's crazy summer of 2017
  2. Australia has kept disabled migrant children out for decades – it's time we gave them protection instead
  3. Where are the working-class characters on today's Australian TV?
  4. Catchphrase to cliché: how corporate-speak became common in our everyday lives
  5. Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces
  6. The mysterious disappearance of health from New South Wales planning laws
  7. Kenneth Arrow's legacy and why elections can be flawed
  8. Why it might be time to reconsider the money spent on genetics research
  9. Revealed: the hidden problem of economic abuse in Australia
  10. How climate change threatens to make our bread less tasty
  11. When mammals took to water they needed a few tricks to eat their underwater prey
  12. China's private companies are unjustly labeled as Communist Party plants
  13. With Moonlight's Oscar win, Hollywood begins to right old wrongs
  14. Politics podcast: former ambassador Jeff Bleich on the shocks of the Trump presidency
  15. We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them
  16. University sexual assault policies are often 'inconsistent' and 'confusing'
  17. Here’s looking at Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, monumental nude
  18. What would a wise democracy look like? We, the people, would matter
  19. New proposed health data report misses many of the marks
  20. Vice Chancellor Barney Glover says universities must stand up for facts and the truth – 'if we don’t, who will?'
  21. Parliamentary inquiry into free speech resolves nothing, so 18C should be left alone
  22. Despite superannuation changes, one tax loophole remains
  23. Fitbit's decline is a reflection of the end of the over-hyped promise of wearables
  24. Tasmania's pokie problem: stress and disadvantage exploited more than anywhere else in Australia
  25. Victoria's world-first change to share sperm or egg donors' names with children
  26. As global food demand rises, climate change is hitting our staple crops
  27. Stronger, faster and more deadly: the ethics of developing supersoldiers
  28. Faggots, punks, and prostitutes: the evolving language of gay men
  29. Don't deride the experts: Universities Australia chair
  30. Parliamentary inquiry sidesteps making recommendation on 18C
  31. Labor leads 55-45 in Newspoll as Turnbull's ratings tank
  32. An adman's perspective on Adman: Warhol Before Pop
  33. Untrammelled Christensen may become even more outspoken
  34. Lack of workers with 'soft skills' demands a shift in teaching
  35. Architecture, undistracted
  36. Airport privatisations have put profit before public safety and good planning
  37. Multinational tax dodgers are the real leaners
  38. Delays and confusion cloud roll-out of new cervical cancer screening program
  39. Politics podcast: Ken Coates on the future of higher education
  40. The Oscars celebrated the humble, while avoiding the overtly political
  41. Leaving the past behind: what became of the anal personality?
  42. Nigeria
  43. Philippines
  44. Iraq
  45. Yemen
  46. Turkey
  47. Syria
  48. Saudi Arabia
  49. Sahel region, Africa
  50. South Sudan

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