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Changing the date – and a state of mind – from the westerly edges

  • Written by: Suvendrini Perera, John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director, Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute, Curtin University
imageA march in Perth on Australia Day this year in support of Indigenous people. Angie Raphael/AAP

The decision by the City of Fremantle to dispense with the customary Australia Day festivities on January 26 has garnered national attention. Following the urging of local Indigenous leaders, the council recently announced it would shift the celebrations...

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Turnbull is happy to horse trade if it gets the nags over the line

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

Malcolm Turnbull didn’t actually trade his first born this week but it felt like it might come to that.

In a whatever-it-takes frame of mind, the government conceded a great deal to get its legislation to resurrect the Australian Building and Construction Commission through on Wednesday.

So much so that Labor finds itself caught between its...

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Why it’s now Labor’s turn to compromise on the backpacker tax

  • Written by: Joanna Howe, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide

With time running out until federal parliament pulls up stumps for the year, the backpacker tax debacle has reached new heights. Yesterday the issue seemed resolved because of a 15% tax rate deal between One Nation, Nick Xenophon and the Coalition. It now appears to have unravelled, with the Senate voting in support of a 10.5% tax rate for...

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  3. The great Australian plays: speaking ‘Orstyrlian’ in Rusty Bugles
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  5. Government response to Infrastructure Australia offers no grounds for optimism
  6. Turnbull government secures ABCC – but suffers sudden defeat on backpacker tax
  7. Full response from a spokesperson for Barnaby Joyce
  8. FactCheck: would backpackers be better off working in Australia than NZ, England or Canada?
  9. We should all beware a resurgent financial sector
  10. Latest Murray-Darling squabble sheds light on the plan's flaws
  11. Which sports are best for health and long life?
  12. Neither the ABC nor SBS have anything to fear from community forums
  13. What are the great Australian plays? Refining our theatre canon
  14. How 'Alfred' the whale lost its teeth to become a giant filter feeder
  15. Medicare logo case shows the urgent need to update Australia's IP laws
  16. Will the latest electricity review bring climate and energy policy together at last?
  17. As Australian shipping grows, how can we avoid collisions with marine animals?
  18. Women don't always get what they want from labiaplasty
  19. In a win for consumers, ACCC rules against the banks' actions against Apple Pay
  20. Turnbull's water gesture satisfies Xenophon
  21. ACCC rejects the banks colluding to bargain on Apple Pay
  22. Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science
  23. New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis
  24. Paleopups and paleopussies: is a paleodiet for your pet a step too far?
  25. Ipsos: are the Greens really at 16%?
  26. From the Gold Coast to Geelong: how cities are shaping visions of their futures
  27. How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
  28. What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
  29. A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court
  30. It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'
  31. Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
  32. Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
  33. Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument
  34. Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
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  36. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
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  38. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  39. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  40. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
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  42. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  43. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  44. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
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  46. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
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