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Victoria's model for assisted dying laws may be narrow enough to pass

  • Written by: Ben White, Professor of Law and Director, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology

After much speculation, the Victorian Government has announced it will put assisted dying legislation before parliament in the second half of next year. This follows the recent and narrow defeat of a bill in South Australia.

In making the announcement, Premier Daniel Andrews said:

Each and every member of my team will have a conscience vote and I am...

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The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 7

  • Written by: Lauren Rosewarne, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

From a pleasingly plump funeral parlour make-up artist to murder, mayhem and melancholy in Belgium, five more suggestions to celebrate season in front of your screen.

Feel encouraged to catch up: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are completely clickable.

31. One Special Night (1999)

The “one special night”, spent by two strangers in a vacant...

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Fifty years on, Pine Gap should reform to better serve Australia

  • Written by: Richard Tanter, Senior Research Associate, Nautilus Institute, and Honorary Professor in the School of Political and Social Studies, University of Melbourne
imageThe Pine Gap facility, southwest of Alice Springs.Felicity Ruby/Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, CC BY-NC-SA

On December 9, 1966, the Australian and US governments signed a treaty for establishing the Pine Gap intelligence facility a few kilometres southwest of Alice Springs.

In the last 50 years, Pine Gap’s growth has burst...

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The latest Productivity Commission report isn't strong enough on improving consumer protection

  • Written by: Allan Asher, Visitor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) & Chair of Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance, Australian National University

The Productivity Commission’s latest report on how consumer law is being enforced assumes the law is working well when, in a number of areas, it’s failing abysmally. It’s time to recognise that better coordination and enforcement are needed.

The report from the Commission joins a few more, such as the review of Australian Consumer...

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  3. The case for a fixed 15% fee on all student loans
  4. Kidman sale finally gets green light
  5. Emissions trading for electricity is the sensible way forward
  6. Who's listening? The ethical and legal issues of developing a health app
  7. Turnbull’s report card on urban transport projects reveals narrow economic focus
  8. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's carbon emissions policy
  9. Time scarcity is a slippery slope to inactivity
  10. Friday essay: what is it about Versailles?
  11. You say 'elite media', I say real journalism. And now more than ever we must fight to keep it
  12. Law to be strengthened on family violence
  13. How to prevent injury from sport and exercise
  14. How we can change our body shape with exercise
  15. Why capital is fleeing China and what it means for Australia
  16. To pay solar households fairly, we need to understand the true value of solar
  17. Not just nets: how to stop shark attacks without killing sharks
  18. Kitchen Science: the chemistry behind amazing meringue and perfect cappuccino
  19. Grattan on Friday: Has Turnbull's credibility deficit reached a point of no return?
  20. The great Australian plays: The Torrents, the Doll and the critical mass of Australian drama
  21. How to grow an evolutionary tree
  22. Behind Singapore’s PISA rankings success – and why other countries may not want to join the race
  23. Our drugs policies have failed. It's time to reinvent them based on what actually works
  24. Why the Iran nuclear agreement is a deal worth honouring
  25. Trumpian deswampification
  26. Why iron is such an important part of your diet
  27. Climate shenanigans at the ends of the Earth: why has sea ice gone haywire?
  28. Density threatens liveability if we miss the big picture of how a city works
  29. The Christmas Film Recommendables - Part 6
  30. Uncertainty over US-China relations under President Trump may be made clearer at Davos
  31. Business Briefing: what super is doing to banking and finance
  32. Seven essential tips to breaking up with sugar
  33. Interactive body map: physical inactivity and the risks to your health
  34. Exercise: motivation gets you started, but routine keeps you going
  35. What you need to know to understand risk estimates
  36. By framing secular society as a Christian creation, Hanson's revival goes beyond simple racism
  37. Guide to the classics: the Arthurian legend
  38. Why artificial intelligence has not revolutionised healthcare... yet
  39. How to reduce your kitchen's impact on global warming
  40. Ten years of backflips over emissions trading leave climate policy in the lurch
  41. As its economy changes, China is starting to export its real estate ideas too
  42. Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on working the new parliament
  43. Why give the Green Army its marching orders?
  44. Tiny desert mice could help save Australia's grasslands from invasion
  45. Australia is very average when it comes to maths and science performance – here's what needs to change
  46. Government calls for co-operation after hit with negative growth figure
  47. Why the next editor-in-chief at The Age should be a woman
  48. Why are the best shut out? The sorry saga of performing arts funding in Australia
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