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This parliament – hung or unhung – will bring us another continuous election campaign

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

The irony of stridently warning people against voting for minor players and then, all charm, ringing those players when you personally might need their votes may be lost on Malcolm Turnbull. After all, a politician’s skillset includes being able to stand on your head without going red in the face.

As he waits impatiently for the results in...

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'Mediscare' campaign shows the power of negative advertising

  • Written by: David Waller, Senior Lecturer, School of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
imageMedicare wasn't a major election issue at the start of the campaign.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Advertising can be a powerful tool for political parties, though it’s just one of several factors that can influence a voter’s behaviour at election time. Following the 2013 federal election, I wrote:

Generally, advertising does not appear to play a...

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FactCheck Q A: are Indigenous women 34-80 times more likely than average to experience violence?

  • Written by: Angela Spinney, Lecturer/Research Fellow in Housing and Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
imageWas Marcia Langton right about the rate of violence experienced by Indigenous women?Q&A

The Conversation is fact-checking claims made on Q&A, broadcast Mondays on the ABC at 9:35pm. Thank you to everyone who sent us quotes for checking via Twitter using hashtags #FactCheck and #QandA, on Facebook or by email.


Excerpt from Q&A June 27,...

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We can't save all wildlife, so conservation laws need to change

  • Written by: Phillipa McCormack, PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
imageThe Bramble Cay Melomys is arguably the first mammal driven extinct by climate change, rather than direct human interaction.Ian Bell/EHP/State of Queensland, CC BY-SA

Australia recently gained an unenviable title: perhaps the first country to lose a mammal species to climate change. The Bramble Cay Melomys, a native rodent found on one tiny sand...

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  2. Health Check: what are the risks of drinking before you know you're pregnant?
  3. Volkswagen’s record settlement payout: treating the symptom not the disease
  4. The off-topic Conversation #100
  5. A new era may be dawning again for radical right populists in Austria and Europe
  6. Even if he keeps the top job, Malcolm Turnbull's troubles have only just begun
  7. Lessons for the post-EU British film industry from the collapse of the Soviet Union
  8. How ants walk backwards carrying a heavy load and still find home
  9. Invisible children: research shows up to one in five Aboriginal newborns aren't registered
  10. Pollution guidelines leave a blind spot for assessing the impact of coal and oil
  11. Labor leadership talk a bit of mischievous arson
  12. Turnbull stands solid against returning Abbott to frontbench
  13. Enigmatic Turnbull creates his own misfortune and will be forever diminished by it
  14. An uncertain election result may lead to stagnant financial markets
  15. Economic policy challenges will swamp our election outcome, no matter who ends up winning
  16. The myth of public opinion
  17. Explainer: why don't we know who won the election and what happens now?
  18. Explainer: what is a ‘hung parliament’, and how will a government be formed?
  19. After messy night, Coalition more likely to form government – but Pauline Hanson is in the Senate
  20. Malcolm Turnbull sounded tone deaf to election message
  21. Major rebuff to Malcolm Turnbull as poll result hovers on knife edge
  22. Infographic: what we know so far about the results of Election 2016
  23. Final polls have Coalition favoured
  24. Gina Rinehart, Weight Loss and Women Under the Microscope
  25. #ausvotes: a final update from the social media hustings
  26. Overcharged for hearing aids? Australia's audiology industry isn't rogue, but needs improvement
  27. Brexit is done, now what about accounting?
  28. Just how safe are Australia's airports?
  29. Brexit harms startups but it may not be fatal
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the campaign's final week
  31. Higher education pays for itself many times over
  32. Crossing the line: why the royal commission examined initiation rituals and defence abuse
  33. Malcolm Turnbull: a prime minister on probation in search of a mandate
  34. Friday essay: the Battle of the Somme and the death of martial glory
  35. Black market jobs cost Australia billions and youth are at the coalface
  36. Your wireless footprint can help police catch a thief
  37. Explainer: what are women's options for giving birth?
  38. Politics for the planet: why nature and wildlife need their own seats at the UN
  39. Grattan on Friday: Shorten struggles as campaign winds down
  40. WA-xit: history beckons
  41. Brexit could leave the European Union struggling with its climate targets
  42. Britain’s 'Bregret' offers timely lessons for Australian voters this weekend
  43. Election explainer: why do I have to vote, anyway?
  44. The shame game: why it's time to end the ‘mummy wars’
  45. Election FactCheck: Does the government spend $3 billion each year on the offshore asylum seeker detention system?
  46. Anti-discrimination law exemptions don't strike the right balance between rights and freedoms
  47. Slanguage and ‘dinky di’ Aussie talk in elections
  48. Only serious reform will avoid more exits from the European Union
  49. Shorten the consensus leader unites a fractured Labor, but it may not quite be enough
  50. Speaking with: ‘Poll Bludger’ William Bowe in the final week of the election campaign

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