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Three reasons why we should have seen Labor's 'Medicare SMS' coming

  • Written by: Stephen Mills, Lecturer, Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney
imageIn a historical context, Labor's 'Medicare SMS' was not particularly surprising or even unprecedented.AAP/Alex Ellinghausen

Labor’s Medicare SMS, texted to voters in the dying hours of the election campaign, has become famous for all the wrong reasons. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called it “an extraordinary act of dishonesty”...

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A marine heatwave has wiped out a swathe of WA's undersea kelp forest

  • Written by: Scott Bennett, Marie Curie Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Curtin University

Kelp forests along some 100km of Western Australia’s coast have been wiped out, and many more areas damaged, by a marine heatwave that struck the area in 2011.

The heatwave, which featured ocean temperatures more than 2℃ above normal and persisted for more than 10 weeks, ushered in an abrupt change in marine plant life along a section...

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Innovation culture has evolved beyond Turnbull's mantra

  • Written by: Tim Rayner, Lecturer, MBA in Entrepreneurship, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe Turnbull government needs to learn a thing or two from hacker culture.Yahoo/Flickr, CC BY-ND

It’s little wonder the Turnbull government’s innovation mantra has fallen flat. It’s pushing strategic tax breaks and incentives aimed to increase the appetite for risk as a means to innovation, when true innovation culture is actually...

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UK and EU both need major democratic reform to survive Brexit fallout

  • Written by: Matthew Wood, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sheffield
imageWithout democratic reform, the time ahead for both Britain and the EU looks bleak indeed. Gary Knight/flickr

This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.


The Brexit...

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