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Election FactCheck: Has the Coalition invested an average of $5 billion more per year into Medicare than Labor did?

  • Written by: Richard Norman, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, Curtin University
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And for the record, despite Labor’s scare campaigns, the Coalition is investing an average of $5 billion more per year into Medicare than Labor did. – The Liberal Party of Australia’s Medium page, June 19, 2016.

The Liberal Party has said that it is investing $5 billion more per year on average into Medicare than Labor did.

Is...

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To eliminate misogyny, the AFL needs social change, not just crisis management

  • Written by: Suzanne Dyson, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University

AFL journalist Caroline Wilson may have accepted Collingwood president and MMM radio presenter Eddie McGuire’s apology for saying he’d pay money to watch her drown, but the damage is done.

Footy Show star Sam Newman made things worse when he tried to support his mate Eddie, suggesting that somehow gender equality means that sexist abuse...

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Post-Brexit, Australia's best option is a trade pact with EU

  • Written by: Gabriele Suder, Principal Fellow, Faculty of Business & Economics/Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

Brexit already brings much economic damage to the UK, and will do so to global economic growth as a whole. The UK’s coveted AAA credit rating has now been downgraded by Standard & Poor’s; uncertainty is hitting sharemarkets; and the pound sterling is at a 31-year low.

Impacts are not restricted to this. Australia has about 1500...

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Ancient Deep Skull still holds big surprises 60 years after it was unearthed

  • Written by: Darren Curnoe, ARC Future Fellow and Director of the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre (PANGEA), UNSW Australia

Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of modern humans left Africa to embark on a journey that would eventually take them across the globe. Yet we still know precious little about the momentous journeys they undertook.

Now, new research by my team and me significantly recasts how we think about the early peopling of Southeast Asia and the...

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  1. How the desire for masculinity might drive some disadvantaged young men to substance abuse
  2. The Rise of the Joyful Economy
  3. The voter paradox: we say we don't want a minority government, but we're happy to vote for one
  4. Risks, ethics and consent: Australia shouldn't become the world's nuclear wasteland
  5. What’s the 'ethnic vote' going to do in Australia's top-ten ethnic marginal seats?
  6. Full response from Pathology Australia
  7. Full response from Catholic Health Australia
  8. Election FactCheck: has the Coalition cut bulk-billing for pathology and scans 'to make patients pay more'?
  9. Despite the rhetoric, this election fails the feminist test
  10. Unit pricing saves money but is the forgotten shopping tool
  11. Labor's proposed competition reforms do little to address inequality
  12. Doctors still provide too many dying patients with needless treatment
  13. Bad behaviour in bars and pubs is a problem, but most of Australia's alcohol is drunk at home
  14. We can have fish and dams: here's how
  15. Let's talk about the space industry in Australia's election campaign
  16. Abbott would have lost 'resoundingly': Turnbull
  17. The Indi Project: 'Soft' voters trust Turnbull over Shorten to run the country
  18. Lessons from Brexit: the fruits of globalisation must be shared with low- and middle-income groups
  19. Brexit: act in haste...
  20. The Briefcase: does Australia's 'most exploitative reality show' breach broadcasting rules?
  21. Election FactCheck: Have 300,000 new jobs been created in the last calendar year and were almost two-thirds held by women?
  22. How time-poor scientists inadvertently made it seem like the world was overrun with jellyfish
  23. Australia should aim for a trade deal with the UK post Brexit
  24. Australia doesn't need a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – Ireland's experience shows why
  25. Higher education gets short shrift in the election campaign, and we are all the poorer for it
  26. Health Check: is caffeine actually bad for kids?
  27. The same kind of 'silent majority' that spoke on Brexit may also be a force here
  28. 'The urban': a concept under stress in an interconnected world
  29. For the English, Brexit will mean economic pain
  30. Election 2016: will the infrastructure promises meet Australia's needs?
  31. A focus on economics (the dismal science) has produced a dismal election debate
  32. Indigenous suicide rates in the Kimberley seven times national average
  33. Rush to dam northern Australia comes at the expense of sustainability
  34. Wind and solar PV have won the race – it's too late for other clean energy technologies
  35. Life lessons from the editing suite of Paul Cox
  36. How Australia played the world's first music on a computer
  37. Malcolm Turnbull invokes Brexit to reinforce his campaign, as Newspoll has Coalition moving ahead
  38. Labor costings pass, but scare tactics detract
  39. Labor costings: ALP deficit $16.5 billion higher over the budget period
  40. Malcolm Turnbull: don't risk change or protest
  41. Europe endless, or Europe ending?
  42. After Brexit, keep a close watch on Italy and its Five Star Movement
  43. Paying the piper and calling the tune? Following ClubsNSW's political donations
  44. Warning Sign: Trigger Warnings and Externalities
  45. Brexit rocks Australian sharemarket, worse to come
  46. Stella’s Girls Write Up tells kids good writing starts with having something to say
  47. Brexit stage right: what Britain's decision to leave the EU means for Australia
  48. Post-plebiscite conscience vote on same-sex marriage is not the risk
  49. Healthy microbes make for a resilient Great Barrier Reef
  50. Leave wins UK Brexit referendum 52-48

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