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Views from abroad: how is the world seeing Australia's election?

  • Written by: Andrew Mycock, Reader in Politics, University of Huddersfield
imageDoes the rest of the world care about Australia's election?EPA/Mast Irham

The federal election has dominated Australians’ attention for the past six weeks but does the rest of the world care? The Conversation’s experts in the United Kingdom, United States, India, Indonesia and New Zealand explain how the battle is playing out abroad and...

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What's the key to home ownership for Gen Y?

  • Written by: Steven Rowley, Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
imageOn average, Gen Ys are $50,000 short of the deposit they expect they'll need to buy their first home. Lolostock from www.shutterstock.com

Over the last 25 years, home ownership rates have fallen sharply for young Australians. Between 1982 and 2011, the home ownership rate for young adults aged 25 to 34 years dropped from 56% to 34%. Growing...

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How the major parties' policies compare on business and finance regulation

  • Written by: Rob Nicholls, Lecturer, UNSW Australia

Controversy has courted the Australian banking, finance and the business sectors throughout the election campaign. Scandals like that engulfing CommInsure, the rate rigging cases brought against some of the Big Four banks and sacking of 7-Eleven compensation board, have forced the major parties to produce policies in answer.

Regulating the banks

Befo...

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Here's looking at Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with monkeys

  • Written by: Barry Carr, Emeritus Professor of History, La Trobe University
imageDetail of Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with monkeys 1943.The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art © 2016 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico DF

Why was the Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, obsessed with monkeys – not to mention parrots, pre-Hispanic dogs and deer? Eight of the large number of...

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  1. One in five early childhood educators plan to leave the profession
  2. Referendum Day in the Dis-United Kingdom
  3. No massacres and an accelerating decline in overall gun deaths: the impact of Australia’s major 1996 gun law reforms
  4. Labor moves its scare campaign onto vaccination register
  5. Barnaby Joyce might seek another portfolio
  6. Managing same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a challenge for Turnbull within his own ranks
  7. The need for speed: there's still time to fix Australia's NBN
  8. Explainer: what is ‘value capture’ and what does it mean for cities?
  9. How is the UK's Brexit referendum different from Australian referendums?
  10. Why the Prime Minister's Literary Awards need an urgent overhaul
  11. The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections
  12. Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
  13. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  14. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  15. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  16. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  17. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  18. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  19. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  20. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  21. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  22. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  23. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  24. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  25. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  26. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  27. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  28. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  29. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  30. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  31. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  32. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  33. How should reading be taught in schools?
  34. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  35. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  36. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  37. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  38. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  39. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  40. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  41. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  42. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  43. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  44. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  45. Internships help students better manage their careers
  46. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  47. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  48. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  49. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  50. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named

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