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Shorten pledges to mobilise ASIC against union corruption

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imageOpposition Leader Bill Shorten will on Monday announce a number of proposals aimed at stamping out union corruption. Tracey Nearmy/AAP

Tougher penalties and a central role for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission are key parts of a policy to crack down on union corruption to be announced by opposition leader Bill Shorten on Monday.

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Turnbull to spend more than $1 billion to promote an innovative Australia

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imagePrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will announce incentives in the form of tax offsets for investments in startups.Lukas Coch/AAP

The government’s innovation statement on Monday will pledge more than $1 billion in new spending over four years on measures to foster an innovative, risk-taking culture in Australia.

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The ERA assessed: Cost, not rated, and league tables. Is there a better way to do it?

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imageERA 2015ARC

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise conducted by the Australian Research Council (ARC) purports to benchmark Australian university research against the research produced by the rest of the world. It is supposed to give everyone an objective measure of research quality and quantity of the Australian higher education...

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Political ground too soggy for Turnbull to turn sods with Truss and Macfarlane

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imageThe furore caused by Ian Macfarlane's defection to the National Party threatens to take oxygen from Malcolm Turnbull's innovation statement.Lukas Coch/AAP

As chance would have it Malcolm Turnbull was to have been at a sod turning for a big Toowoomba bypass project on Monday, in Ian Macfarlane’s Groom electorate, together with Deputy Prime...

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  1. Ice report marks a welcome shift in thinking towards prevention and treatment
  2. Ex-ASIO chief to beef up Foreign Investment Review Board's national security credentials
  3. Liberals hold North Sydney despite a 13% primary vote swing against them
  4. Business big hitters highlight the huge growth in climate risk management
  5. Paris climate talks slow to a crawl as obstructionists threaten the deal
  6. Naomi Klein's 'Leap Manifesto': we can't rely on big business for a climate fix
  7. Watt report suggests financial incentives for measuring research impact
  8. Don't blame and shame women for unintended pregnancies
  9. The German migrant story holds lessons for Australia's Muslim community today
  10. How we trace the hackers behind a cyber attack
  11. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on misplaced poltical loyalties
  12. Education department secretary Lisa Paul quits
  13. The technology in science fiction is not always what we want in the real world
  14. James Hansen arrives – at his first ever COP
  15. Yes, let's have a frank and open discussion about the causes of extremism and terrorism
  16. FactCheck: is there a link between early and easier access to violent TV and domestic violence?
  17. Sea level rise is real – which is why we need to retreat from unrealistic advice
  18. 500 years of drought and flood: trees and corals reveal Australia's climate history
  19. My genes made me do it: the problem of genetic evidence and diminished culpability
  20. Grattan on Friday: Ian Macfarlane, done down in the reshuffle, one-ups Malcolm Turnbull
  21. It's not all about government, business managers can foster innovation too
  22. Refugees' suffering can't be eased in their current conditions
  23. Gene editing could open up animal organ transplants into humans
  24. Sizing up the Asia Pacific’s booming alternative finance sector
  25. Shift away from 'publish or perish' puts the public back into publication
  26. Focus on STEM risks sidelining social science innovation
  27. Al Gore: 'the will to act is a renewable resource in itself'
  28. Discussing the 'success' of limiting aviation emissions is just hot air
  29. Most Kiribatian households are mulling climate migration – and that's just the start
  30. Sex is neither good nor bad, but writing makes it so
  31. Greens deal with government unveils tax affairs of some private companies
  32. Look to our religious leaders for a climate change Plan B
  33. Albanese offers Labor a counter to Turnbull's polished charms
  34. A European Union-Australia trade deal may heal a troubled history
  35. Ian Macfarlane defects to Nats, who eye extra frontbench post
  36. We're right to make a scene about gender equity in the Australian screen industry
  37. Attack of the jellies: the winners of ocean acidification
  38. The slow-burn, devastating impact of tobacco plain packs
  39. The 'new football' should stop engaging in 'old soccer' debates
  40. Explainer: what is black lung and why do miners get it?
  41. Un-doing Design Anthropology: Uber-versities and not belonging
  42. Profiting from the innovation of others? Why governments must manage the spoils of new ideas
  43. The right words matter when talking about pain
  44. Five reasons we should embrace gene-editing research on human embryos
  45. Debate on whether we should use gene-editing technology is far from black and white
  46. Democracy that bows down to the market is a false compromise
  47. New dwarfism drug shows how innovation can be done well
  48. Explainer: magical realism
  49. Industry super funds saved from US-style ideology
  50. Even the super-corals of Australia's Kimberley are not immune to climate change

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