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Morrison and Bowen debate competing visions, but are they missing the true picture?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

While watching the debate between the Treasurer Scott Morrison and Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen today at the National Press Club one would not find much in the way of new information, compared to what has been outlined during the budget and debated in the course of the subsequent election campaign.

Meanwhile, one would wonder if the two contenders...

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Accusations and slogans reduce Treasurers' Debate to a yawn

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

I haven’t fallen asleep during the day for decades, but I came pretty close today watching the Treasurers' debate between Scott Morrison and Chris Bowen on the major issue of the election campaign - economic management.

I stirred a couple of times when they raised their voices a little, and attempted to talk over each other, about issues such...

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Children with sexualised behaviours need support, not silence and stigma

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageIsolating a child from their peers does nothing to address the underlying concerns that may have lead to a child behaving in this way.from www.shutterstock.com

Reports of coercive sex acts among small children quite understandably provoke strong and broad ranging reactions.

The case of a child in grade one performing sex acts on other children in a...

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