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Pauline Hanson the big winner as Senate finalised

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

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has won four Senate seats – two, including Hanson’s, in Queensland, one in New South Wales and one in Western Australia.

The non-Green crossbench in the new Senate will number 11, three more than in the last parliament.

The Nick Xenophon Team (NXT) has three senators, all from South Australia.

To pass...

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What bit about the wrongs of sexual threats against women do courts and men not get?

  • Written by: Emma A. Jane, Senior Lecturer in Media, Journalism and Communication, UNSW Australia
imageSydney man Zane Alchin pleaded guilty to bombarding young women on Facebook with graphic, sexually violent messages.AAP/Joel Carrett

This article contains graphic language of a violent sexual nature.

The photo from outside court shows a young man wearing a suit and dark sunglasses. He smirks as he raises a defiant middle finger at the cameras.

In...

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Olympic medal forecasting: it's easier to predict results than you might think

  • Written by: Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
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The Australian Olympic team chef de mission, Kitty Chiller, has said she genuinely believes Australia could increase its medal haul from 35 in the London Games to 45 in Rio, including doubling the number of gold medals from eight to 16. But can countries really increase Olympic medal counts at will?

The new field of Olympics forecasting says the...

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A competitive superannuation system: will efficiency gains follow?

  • Written by: Helen Hodgson, Associate Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University

Will competition in the superannuation system improve efficiency, or is this an ideological argument extended beyond its usefulness? If more competition would promote efficiency, what design and policy issues need to be addressed to accommodate the changes?

The Productivity Commission’s draft report on superannuation’s efficiency and...

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