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Newspoll and Ipsos have contrasting leaders' ratings trends; Abbott trails in Warringah

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Newspoll and Ipsos have contrasting leaders' ratings trends; Abbott trails in WarringahDespite some tightening on two-party preferred measures, the polls have Labor on track for a win on May 18.AAP/Darren England/Mick Tsikas

With 12 days until the May 18 election, this week’s Newspoll, conducted May 2-5 from a sample of 1,880, gave Labor a 51-49 lead, unchanged since last week. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (steady), 36%...

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Curious Kids: what is brain freeze?

  • Written by: David Farmer, Researcher, University of Melbourne
Curious Kids: what is brain freeze?A brain freeze is an intense 'squeezing' sensation on your head.Nina Maile Gordon/The Conversation, CC BY-NC-ND

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and...

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Lots of ministry spots to fill if Morrison wins, while many Shorten ministers would return to a familiar cabinet room

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

Jumping beyond May 18, we know a good deal more about how a Shorten government ministry would look than the shape of a re-elected Morrison government.

A rash of ministers quitting politics at the election has left some significant holes to be filled if the Coalition managed to hang on.

This would provide opportunities for up-and-comers, but it...

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Why Labor's childcare policy is the biggest economic news of the election campaign

  • Written by: John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute

In an election campaign full of giveaways but short on serious economic reform, Labor’s proposed change to childcare support is the most important economic news.

It fits in with this year’s Grattan Institute Commonwealth Orange Book, which identified getting more women into the workforce as one of the most valuable things the next...

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  2. Nearly 2 out of 3 nursing homes are understaffed. These 10 charts explain why aged care is in crisis
  3. Why the Reserve Bank shouldn't (but might) cut interest rates on Tuesday
  4. Almost every Australian teacher has been bullied by students or their parents, and it's taking a toll
  5. Six ways robots are used today that you probably didn't know about
  6. Leigh Sales, ordinary days and crafting empathy ‘between the lines’
  7. Don't forget the footpath – it's vital public space
  8. Sit! Seek! Fly! Scientists train dogs to sniff out endangered insects
  9. New Zealand's well-being approach to budget is not new, but could shift major issues
  10. Labor ahead in Newspoll and Ipsos, as Keating comments stir security issue
  11. Shorten presents the ‘case for change’ in sleek launch
  12. Money for hospital emergency departments in Shorten’s campaign launch
  13. Bill Shorten at ease in town hall-type forum
  14. Morrison and Shorten get punchy in the second leaders' debate. Our experts respond.
  15. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on candidate troubles
  16. What a local newspaper means to a regional city like Newcastle
  17. We've detected new gravitational waves, we just don't know where they come from (yet)
  18. Tampa and the national security election of 2001
  19. how do babies learn to talk?
  20. Puckish charm and no politicians: the 2019 Archibald Prize
  21. The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carpark
  22. local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever
  23. the dramatic and inglorious fall of Joh Bjelke-Petersen
  24. Julian Assange has refused to surrender himself for extradition to the US. What now?
  25. Leaders try to dodge them. Voters aren't watching. So, are debates still relevant?
  26. Fixing the gap between Labor's greenhouse gas goals and their policies
  27. more preference deals as pre-polling begins
  28. It's not clear where human rights fit in the legal ruling on athlete Caster Semenya
  29. managing type 2 diabetes during Ramadan
  30. How hard is it to say 'no' to drugs?
  31. How to increase train use by up to 35% with one simple trick
  32. policies come and policies go, but surely we shouldn't be subsidising inheritances
  33. $20 billion per year. That's how much higher superannuation could take from wages
  34. Pacific countries score well in media freedom index, but reality is far worse
  35. A guide to ensure everyone plays by the same military rules in space: the Woomera Manual
  36. Friday essay: networked hatred - new technology and the rise of the right
  37. We need to treat borderline personality disorder for what it really is – a response to trauma
  38. Labor wants to keep climate debate in the clouds
  39. Blockchain can help break the chains of modern slavery, but it is not a complete solution
  40. UK becomes first country to declare a 'climate emergency'
  41. Young people won't accept inaction on climate change, and they'll be voting in droves
  42. what does Clive Palmer actually want?
  43. The exhibition Tudors to Windsors is an uncritical glorification of empire
  44. rural voters get a voice and topple a government in 1913
  45. The Conversation needs your help
  46. how does preferential voting work in the House of Representatives?
  47. how does preferential voting work in the Senate?
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