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Australia shores up defences against asylum seekers as US deal provides escape for refugees

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

The cordon around Australia’s border has been pulled tighter to deter people smugglers as the government finally unveils its agreement for the United States to resettle refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.

Extra navy, airforce and border protection forces have already been mobilised to stop the deal leading to the boats restarting.

Announcing...

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Newspoll: Labor gains to lead 53-47

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

Tuesday’s Newspoll, conducted 3-6 November from a sample of 1850, had Labor leading 53-47, a one point gain for Labor. Primary votes were 39% for the Coalition (steady), 38% for Labor (up 1) and 10% for the Greens (steady).

30% were satisfied with Turnbull’s performance (up 1), and 58% were dissatisfied (also up 1), for a net approval...

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A blaze of light in every word: vale Leonard Cohen

  • Written by: Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
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A little winning streak

‘You win awhile, and then it’s done. Your little winning streak.’

Like many people around the world, I had long been dreading the confirmation of what my fears had made a seeming certainty: the incipient Presidency of Donald J. Trump.

I confess to a little gloom.

And like many Leonard Cohen fans...

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The view from Marrakech: climate talks are battling through a Trump tsunami

  • Written by: Robyn Eckersley, Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

Stunned. Shocked. Speechless. Devastated. Political tsunami. These were the key words rising to the surface of the babble of conversations that took place in the corridors of the climate negotiations in Marrakech on Wednesday 9 November – the day Donald Trump won the US presidency.

A climate denier, Trump has vowed to tear up the historic Pari...

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  2. Goodbye Leonard, you brought us so much light
  3. Trump's win shows how vital the arts and humanities are
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  5. What's behind the Trump bump in markets
  6. What might a Trump presidency mean for Muslims and the Muslim world?
  7. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Australia's reaction to the Trump victory
  8. Most men don't realise age is a factor in their fertility too
  9. President Trump could kill the Paris Agreement - but climate action will survive
  10. Trickle down Trump-economics is not the fiscal policy the world needs
  11. Australia should assume Trump won't step back from his campaign commitments
  12. The Trump presidency may not be all doom and gloom for the region
  13. Friday essay: Camarade – The Earth
  14. Swingers' hookup program can find the right match for endangered species
  15. Firestorms: the bushfire/thunderstorm hybrids we urgently need to understand
  16. Lovability: restoring liveability’s human face
  17. Suppressing the immune system won't improve your chances of conceiving with IVF
  18. Grattan on Friday: As one businessman to another…Malcolm and Donald begin to talk
  19. On your bike Trump
  20. Dear Mr President-elect Trump, thanks! We now live in the best of all possible worlds
  21. Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump
  22. Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow
  23. Brandis scraps direction to Solicitor-General
  24. The third global bleaching event took its toll on Western Australia's super-corals
  25. There is no female president this time, and women are divided about it
  26. Creating a healthy company requires more than good pay incentives
  27. Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?
  28. Trump can kill trade deals but he can't kill globalisation
  29. How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?
  30. This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget
  31. No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news
  32. What's in store for Asia under President Trump
  33. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  34. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
  35. We've learned a lot about heatwaves, but we're still just warming up
  36. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  37. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  38. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  39. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  40. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  41. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  42. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism
  43. President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen
  44. The markets tell us President Trump is worse than Brexit
  45. Trump the demagogue looks set to rule
  46. Vital Signs: it's a Trumptastrophe
  47. Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?
  48. Why hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against the Jakarta governor
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