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Politics podcast: Bob Brown on Malcolm Turnbull and the same-sex marriage plebiscite

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Since retiring from politics in 2012, former Greens leader Bob Brown has continued to offer sharp perspectives on issues of national debate. After giving the closing address at the Canberra Writers' Festival at the weekend, Brown tells Michelle Grattan that Malcolm Turnbull should have “stood up to the right wing” of his...

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Bob Brown supports marriage plebiscite as a last resort

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

Former Greens leader Bob Brown has said the door should be kept open for a plebiscite if that is the only way of achieving same-sex marriage in the foreseeable future.

Brown’s stand comes as the numbers harden against the passage of the machinery for a plebiscite. The Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) has announced it would oppose it, and Victorian...

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Kids are more susceptible to brain injury, and concussion has implications beyond what we thought

  • Written by: Pankaj Sah, Director - Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland
imageKids commonly have falls or are injured during sports, but we're only now learning concussions in kids have severe consequences. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Head knocks in childhood are by no means uncommon, yet they may have lasting negative effects. New research has found a link between concussion in childhood and adverse medical and social...

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From bonnets to fez to burkinis, clothing has long made us uneasy

  • Written by: Marion Diamond, Honorary Associate Professor of History, The University of Queensland
imageA spate of French towns have banned burkinis. It's the latest move in a long history of unease over women's (and sometimes men's) clothing.Tim Wimborne/Reuters

The current controversy over the burkini has electrified French society and launched a thousand memes. Pictures of Nigella Lawson wearing a burkini on Bondi Beach and nuns paddling on a...

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  6. Disunity is death? The demise of the CLP government in the Northern Territory
  7. It's not just the economy, stupid; it's whether the economy is fair
  8. Four common claims about education funding and quality that need explaining
  9. Here's looking at: Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef by Janet Laurence
  10. The winners and losers in the race for driverless cars
  11. How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?
  12. Why are professional development standards for new and returning federal MPs so inadequate?
  13. Ticked off: let’s stop our dogs and cats dying of tick paralysis this year
  14. Why Weiner is Wonderful
  15. Albanese warns Labor over clean energy supplement in omnibus bill
  16. The BBC's top 100 21st century films? Give me a break!
  17. (Real) football: the reds buy the Reds?
  18. Labor easily wins NT election
  19. Adrift in a sea of violence: Obama’s legacy, and the prospect of a Trump or Clinton presidency
  20. The Miles Franklin winner: a dark, sorrowful story with moments of light and tenderness
  21. Same-sex marriage plebiscite appears doomed
  22. Is your employer watching you? Online profiling blurs the boundary of our public and private lives
  23. Abbott steps into budget debate, saying reform is a precondition for tax cuts
  24. Young people with cancer should have affordable options to preserve their fertility
  25. Australia's stance on nuclear deterrence leaves it on the wrong side of history
  26. EcoCheck: Australia's vast, majestic northern savannas need more care
  27. Telegraph story on research funding does nothing to advance Australian journalism
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  29. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on budget savings
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  31. Earthquakes don't kill, our collapsing structures do. So how can we build them to stay up?
  32. Electronic baby simulators could increase, not decrease, teen pregnancy
  33. America is moving to end its use of private prisons – should Australia follow suit?
  34. Friday essay: From Bowie to Bieber – the under-appreciated art of the music video
  35. Interview: Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and inventor of the home computer
  36. Why males are more likely to die from conception to old age
  37. Australia needs to lead again on democratic innovation
  38. Feral animals are running amok on Australia's islands – here's how to stop them
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  40. Di Natale takes Hanson-Young out of asylum seeker area
  41. Grattan on Friday: Shorten wants to play hardball but can he dodge the 'opportunist' tag?
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