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There are some difficult questions to ask Netanyahu, but boycotting his visit won't answer them

  • Written by Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University
imageIsraeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is making a historic visit to Australia.Reuters/pool

Tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will begin an official visit to Australia. He will spend four days here, a considerable period for an Israeli leader to be away from home.

His will be a high-profile visit, shoring up the closeness between our...

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APRA fiddles on bank risk while Rome burns

  • Written by Andrew Schmulow, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chairman Wayne Byers has made it clear the bank regulator will be cracking down on bank capital levels this year.

Bank capital reserves are a loss-absorber, designed to protect creditors if banks suffer significant losses. That protection, in turn, will – ostensibly – prevent panicked...

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Which supplements work? New labels may help separate the wheat from the chaff

  • Written by Ken Harvey, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
imageHow do you really know if vitamin and mineral supplements really "help your heart" or "boost your mood"?from www.shutterstock.com

New proposals from Australia’s drug regulator should give you a better idea if your complementary medicines do what they say on the packet.

One change proposed by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is a...

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Labor's climate policy could remove the need for renewable energy targets

  • Written by Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute

The federal Labor Party has sought to simplify its climate change policy. Any suggestion of expanding the Renewable Energy Target has been dropped. But there is debate over whether the new policy is actually any more straightforward as a result.

One thing Labor did confirm is its support for an emissions intensity scheme (EIS) as its central...

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  1. Bystanders often don't intervene in sexual harassment – but should they?
  2. PewDiePie, new media stars and the court of public opinion
  3. WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure
  4. Morrison's tanty over bankers hiring Anna Bligh was arrogant and absurd
  5. Australia's march towards corporatocracy
  6. The anatomy of an energy crisis – a pictorial guide, Part 2
  7. Explainer: trickle-down economics
  8. FactCheck Q A: was it four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago?
  9. Response from a spokesman for Jacqui Lambie for a FactCheck on climate change
  10. Health Check: are naps good for us?
  11. Diminishing city: hope, despair and Whyalla
  12. Emotional fallout: Little Emperors brings China's one-child policy to the stage
  13. Imaging study confirms differences in ADHD brains
  14. Should Victoria introduce a swifter model of sentencing family violence offenders?
  15. Why small business tax cuts aren't likely to boost 'jobs and growth'
  16. Australia needs to reboot affordable housing funding, not scrap it
  17. New study shows more time walking means less time in hospital
  18. The 20th century saw a 23-fold increase in natural resources used for building
  19. Wary of human-animal hybrids? It's probably just your own moral superiority
  20. Guide to the classics: Alice Pung on Robin Klein's The Sky in Silver Lace
  21. Women also sexually abuse children, but their reasons often differ from men's
  22. US president shoots the messengers. SAD!
  23. WA ReachTEL: Liberals gain to move to tie
  24. The Death of President Trump
  25. The bitter consolation of imitation
  26. Game therapy: serious video games can help children with cerebral palsy
  27. The Great Wall fails to bring down the barriers in a lacklustre Chinese-US epic
  28. Bush democracy wins out but council mergers continue in Sydney
  29. Work councils could be the future of Australian industrial democracy in an ABCC world
  30. Australia emerges as a leader in the global darknet drugs trade
  31. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the omnibus bill
  32. Netanyahu visit historic – and potentially fraught – for Australia
  33. Words, Tweets and Stones in the Political Correctness Wars
  34. How we do FactChecks at The Conversation
  35. Essays on health: reporting medical news is too important to mess up
  36. Australians believe 18C protections should stay
  37. Australia's electricity market is not agile and innovative enough to keep up
  38. Friday essay: the female werewolf and her shaggy suffragette sisters
  39. Vital Signs: business confidence spikes but uncertainty reigns
  40. Grattan on Friday: The 'Omnibus' puts government in a tangle and Xenophon in a jam
  41. The Red Detachment of Women marches forward – but to where?
  42. Politics podcast: Anthony Albanese on Labor's approach to infrastructure
  43. North Korea may not yet have a long-range missile, but its progress is worrying
  44. Help us restore trust in experts
  45. Roe 8 fails the tests of responsible 21st-century infrastructure planning
  46. Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer
  47. Global clean energy scorecard puts Australia 15th in the world
  48. Where art meets industry: protecting the spectacular rock art of the Burrup Peninsula
  49. Jakarta governor's race a litmus test for Indonesia
  50. What will my child's life be like? Newly identified genes may help diagnose autism and disability

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