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Hard to see compromise on same-sex marriage plebiscite

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

There’s speculation the government might be willing to reach out to Labor to save its same-sex marriage plebiscite from being killed in the Senate. But no-one should be getting too excited.

Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday in a broad statement: “The reality is the Australian people elected the 45th parliament, we do not have a majority...

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Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?

  • Written by: Brian McNair, Professor of Journalism, Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Game on, it would seem, in Australia’s version of the new politics of populism.

It’s reported that Pauline Hanson has employed a former adviser to Donald Trump in her search to replicate his success here in Australia.

A few days after her warnings of being “swamped” by the Chinese in the morning, and by Muslims...

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Humans can make rockfalls from earthquakes more dangerous

  • Written by: Mark Quigley, Associate professor, University of Melbourne
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Earthquakes (including the tsunamis they generate) are Earth’s most fatal natural hazard, accounting for approximately 55% of the more than 1.35 million disaster deaths in the last two decades. The US Geological Survey predicts that more than 2.5 million people will die from earthquakes this century alone.

So anything that can be learnt from...

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WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position

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

The next Western Australian election will be held in six months, on 11 March 2017. A ReachTEL poll, conducted on Thursday night from a sample of 1720, gives the Liberals real hope of coming back from what seemed a lost cause earlier this year, and winning a third successive term.

Including the 6.3% undecided, primary votes are 43.6% for the...

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  2. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  3. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  4. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
  5. Why we run Author Q As
  6. Paralympian role models: media hype, political rhetoric or the real deal?
  7. Attacks on renewable energy policy are older than the climate issue itself
  8. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
  9. The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness
  10. Callinan review largely backs Sydney lockout laws, but alcohol's role in family violence is a blind spot
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's week of success
  12. Technology matters in the Paralympics, but the athlete matters more
  13. Unusual conditions: what are gigantism and acromegaly?
  14. Why are there so many species of bugs, but so few species of human?
  15. Rules of the Game: a disparate mix of ping-pong balls, paper and Pharrell Williams
  16. How Airbnb is reshaping our cities
  17. iPhone hack attack shows why we need to rein in the trade in spyware
  18. Crossroads program: should we teach children that gender identity is fluid? Here's what the research says
  19. Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story
  20. Insults, offence and words that wound: why language needs to be handled with care
  21. When globalisation meets entrepreneurship it can be a force for good
  22. Are we expelling too many children from Australian schools?
  23. Friday essay: science fiction's women problem
  24. Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia's misguided war on bikies
  25. Explainer: how to prepare for a tsunami
  26. Bulging ear drums and hearing loss: Aboriginal kids have the highest otitis media rates in the world
  27. Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?
  28. Kangaroo Island's choice: a new cable to the mainland, or renewable power
  29. Vital Signs: flat employment remains worrying for Australia
  30. What comes after the Paralympics? How sport and study can enhance each other
  31. Grattan on Friday: The Turnbull government begins to wash its face
  32. Winners and losers from the government's compromise on superannuation
  33. Valerie Amos: 'academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and respected'
  34. State aid lessons for Australia from the Apple EU tax case
  35. Why Australians should say 'Yes' to the same-sex marriage plebiscite
  36. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, August 2016
  37. Take control over the end of your life: what you need to know about advance care directives
  38. When process becomes product – repacking science communication
  39. NHMRC fluoride paper: relax, Australian citizens, your pineal glands are safe
  40. After Tasmania's year of disasters, bushfire tops the state's growing list of natural hazards
  41. Race to the White House – Episode One
  42. Social media and defamation law pose threats to free speech, and it's time for reform
  43. FactCheck: Have eight of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years?
  44. Breaking news: marriage has very little to do with religion (and vice versa)
  45. Media owners steer government away from reform in the public interest
  46. Why are Aboriginal children still dying from rheumatic heart disease?
  47. Shadow banking increases the risk of another global financial crisis
  48. Here’s looking at: John Olsen, Summer in the You Beaut Country, 1962
  49. What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?
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