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Barnaby Joyce might seek another portfolio

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

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has left the way open for a possible change of portfolio in a re-elected Turnbull government – assuming he holds his seat.

When asked on Wednesday whether he would definitely stay in the agriculture job Joyce said this was getting way too far ahead – the first thing was to win the election.

There has...

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Managing same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a challenge for Turnbull within his own ranks

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

The same-sex marriage debate, mostly at the margins of this campaign, has erupted between the parties and within the Liberals in a foretaste of the free-for-all a plebiscite would bring.

Malcolm Turnbull is under fire from conservative Liberal senator Cory Bernardi for how he handled questioning on Monday’s Q&A.

Labor’s Senate leader...

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The need for speed: there's still time to fix Australia's NBN

  • Written by: Mike Quigley, Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing and Communications, University of Technology Sydney
imageAustralia's is spending billions of dollars a national infrastructure 'that just about meets demand today'.Shutterstock/Dario Lo Presti

A National Broadband Network (NBN) based on Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) was, and still is, the right answer for Australia’s broadband needs.

Compared to the original FTTP-based NBN, we are currently on the...

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Explainer: what is ‘value capture’ and what does it mean for cities?

  • Written by: Nicole Gurran, Professor - Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
imageTransit value capture is used in Hong Kong.Flickr/Kin, CC BY

Value capture secures some of the benefits delivered by public investment to offset the costs of provision. The notion has been around in various forms for a while, but recently gained steam. Prime Minister’s Malcolm Turnbull’s Smart Cities Plan touts value capture as a way to...

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  3. The fossil-fuelled political economy of Australian elections
  4. Electricity prices, the election agenda and the case for bipartisanship
  5. Weekly Dose: codeine doesn't work for some people, and works too well for others
  6. Here's a good news conservation story: farmers are helping endangered ecosystems
  7. Wall St might not be ready for a war on high-frequency trading
  8. Infographic: how much does Australia spend on science and research?
  9. The Indi Project: who do Indi voters trust to run the country?
  10. How a Brexit could impact on Australia
  11. Business Briefing: ASIC tries to prevent fintech startups from becoming scammers
  12. Listening but not hearing: process has trumped substance in Indigenous affairs
  13. Tackling Indigenous family violence needs more than band-aid solutions
  14. Are the Greens really the climate radicals we need?
  15. Should academics cite those who have breached moral and humane borders?
  16. New food labels should go further than country of origin
  17. Spacing of letters, not shape of letters, slightly increases reading speed of those with dyslexia
  18. Collecting data to help protect Australia's waters from toxic algal blooms
  19. Turnbull's message to First Australians: we want to do things with you
  20. Simple processing and clever apps? Don't hold your breath for a user-friendly Medicare IT system
  21. Gender equity can cause sex differences to grow bigger
  22. Howard is marked up and Abbott down in handling foreign policy: Lowy poll
  23. PolicyCheck: What are the parties really offering to save the Great Barrier Reef?
  24. Fair play at the Olympics: testosterone and female athletes
  25. How should reading be taught in schools?
  26. How political opinion polls affect voter behaviour
  27. NSW budget delivers a fat surplus, but mixed bag for Turnbull's chances
  28. The five must-see films of the Sydney Film Festival
  29. A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial
  30. Pyne versus Carr on innovation – who came out top?
  31. An Arrium bailout shows how the myth of manufacturing and growth lives on
  32. Shorten's scare campaign will be all or nothing
  33. Smart cities wouldn't let housing costs drive the worse-off into deeper disadvantage
  34. Politicians' inability to speak freely on issues that matter leaves democracy all the poorer
  35. A vote for Brexit means a wounded David Cameron and a calamitous blow to Europe
  36. Seven ways to tell whether a private equity-backed IPO should be avoided
  37. Internships help students better manage their careers
  38. Explainer: the art of video game writing
  39. Why we regain weight after drastic dieting
  40. How we convinced people to trust a new innovative approach to eliminate dengue
  41. Global agriculture study finds developing countries most threatened by invasive pest species
  42. Why so many Australian species are yet to be named
  43. Turnbull admits to critic of marriage plebiscite: 'you make a powerful point'
  44. Juno is about to peer under the clouds of Jupiter
  45. Liberals shielding minister Sussan Ley from debate about health
  46. Response from Labor spokesperson
  47. Election FactCheck Q A: does the government spend more on negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts than on child care or higher education?
  48. Little difference between Labor and the Coalition's jobs programs for young people
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