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Labor will prioritise an NBN 'digital inclusion drive' – here's what it should focus on

  • Written by: Julian Thomas, Professor of Media and Communications; Director, Social Change Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University
Labor will prioritise an NBN 'digital inclusion drive' – here's what it should focus onPeople with poor broadband services spend more time in queues at the bank and for other services that should easily be accessible online. from www.shutterstock.com

The national broadband network (NBN) has been a major issue in federal election campaigns for close to a decade.

And the 2019 version of the NBN bears little resemblance to the...

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Bowen says Labor would have lower tax take than under Howard years

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

Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen on Wednesday will seek to counter the Coalition’s attack on Labor as high-taxing by saying a Shorten government would have a lower tax take as a proportion of the economy than under the Howard years.

Delivering his post-budget address at the National Press Club, Bowen will point to an analysis released by KPMG...

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intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war

  • Written by: Olivia Murphy, Postdoctoral research fellow in English, University of Sydney
intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at warA copy of an engraving of Count Casimir Pulaski published in 1871.Wikimedia Commons

A documentary from the Smithsonian Institute, examining new DNA and physical anthropology evidence, suggests the famous cavalry officer Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779) might have been a woman, or intersex.

Pulaski is a hero of the struggles for Polish and American...

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Government advertising may be legal, but it's corrupting our electoral process

  • Written by: Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

The Coalition government’s use of taxpayer money for political advertising – as much as A$136 million since January, according to Labor figures - is far from an aberration in Australia. It is part of a sordid history in which public resources have routinely been abused for electoral advantage.

For example, the Coalition governments of...

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  2. We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here's why it could happen again
  3. We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers
  4. Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal
  5. Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize
  6. Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie
  7. The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
  8. More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient way
  9. From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
  10. Coalition gets a bounce in Newspoll, but not in Ipsos or Essential
  11. The ABC didn't receive a reprieve in the budget. It's still facing staggering cuts
  12. Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
  13. green-collar criminals or civil 'disobedients'?
  14. Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
  15. the curious case of shy lizards and deadly cane toads
  16. Business-as-usual record on transport leaves next government plenty of room to improve
  17. NZ journalists arrested in Fiji have been released but a new era of press freedom is yet to arrive
  18. A detailed eucalypt family tree helps us see how they came to dominate Australia
  19. The 14 Indigenous words for money on the new 50 cent coin
  20. What will the Coalition be remembered for on tax? Tinkering, blunders and lost opportunities
  21. Politicians need to listen up before they speak up – and listen in the right places
  22. Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
  23. Which families delay sending their child to school, and why? We crunched the numbers
  24. We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests
  25. In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated
  26. Australia has a new National Construction Code, but it's still not good enough
  27. Control, cost and convenience determine how Australians use the technology in their homes
  28. It's the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani
  29. All female mammals have a clitoris – we're starting to work out what that means for their sex lives
  30. Labor's cancer package would cut the cost of care, but beware of unintended side effects
  31. How has education policy changed under the Coalition government?
  32. Tourists behaving badly are a threat to global tourism, and the industry is partly to blame
  33. how did the months get their names?
  34. The swamp foxtail's origin is hidden in its DNA
  35. Casual academics aren't going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn't affected?
  36. your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist
  37. Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re-released by Tasmania's bushfires
  38. should we nap during the day?
  39. $500m for station car parks? Other transport solutions could do much more for the money
  40. What the data say about discrimination and tolerance in New Zealand
  41. Chinese investment in Australia is down 36%. It's time for a more balanced debate about the national interest
  42. Edible seaweed can be used to grow blood vessels in the body
  43. What will the Turnbull-Morrison government be remembered for?
  44. Coalition narrows gap to trail 48-52% in post-budget Newspoll
  45. Cutting cancer costs is a worthy policy, but we need to try to prevent it too
  46. Those future tax cut promises... they're nowhere near as big as you'd think
  47. Artificial intelligence in Australia needs to get ethical, so we have a plan
  48. Trapdoor spider species that stay local put themselves at risk
  49. Michelle Grattan on the government's benign budget and Shorten's mic drop
  50. New Zealand gun owners invoke NRA-style tropes in response to fast-tracked law change

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