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World politics explainer: The twin-tower bombings (9/11)

  • Written by: Barbara Keys, Associate Professor of US and International History, University of Melbourne
World politics explainer: The twin-tower bombings (9/11)South Tower being hit during the 9/11 attacks. The events of September 11 2001 has significantly shaped American attitudes and actions towards fighting terrorism, surveilling citizens and othering outsiders.NIST SIPA/Wikicommons

This article is part of our series of explainers on key moments in the past 100 years of world political history. In it,...

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ACTU push for industry bargaining increases pressure on Labor

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

The ACTU is stepping up its pressure for industry bargaining as part of a radical revamp of the industrial relations system that it wants a Labor government to embrace.

In a speech to be delivered on Thursday, ACTU secretary Sally McManus says “the enterprise-only bargaining system is failing”, and “more and more people are...

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Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary fall from grace

  • Written by: Anthony Ware, Senior Lecturer in International & Community Development, Deakin University
Aung San Suu Kyi's extraordinary fall from graceAung Sun Suu Kyi is now seen as an enabler of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s civilian leader and de facto president, is under fire from all sides. Domestically, she is facing growing criticism for stalled economic and political reforms, glacial progress on policy and service improvements, and the suppression of free...

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A Shorten government would subsidise pre-school for three year olds

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

Bill Shorten will announce on Thursday that a Labor government would finance 15 hours a week of subsidised preschool education for three year olds from 2021.

With education an election battleground, Shorten is linking a new initiative on early childhood learning to the opposition’s broader schools policy, in which Labor is promising to...

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  2. playing our finest songs to those lost on the Western Front
  3. Five ways to reduce waste (and save money) on your home renovation
  4. We need to change negative views of the jobs VET serves to make it a good post-school option
  5. How to improve the NDIS for people who have an intellectual disability as well as a mental illness
  6. what's the history of aircraft squawk codes and how do they work?
  7. States want the GST guarantee set in legislative stone
  8. Clare O'Neil on Labor's listening tour for banking victims
  9. finally, another woman awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics
  10. 'Honeygate' deepens as new tests reveal 27% of brands are adulterated
  11. research finds that 40% of people over 50 drink too much
  12. Digitising social services could further exclude people already on the margins
  13. When unborn children are killed, how does the law deal with culpability?
  14. The fall of the Berlin Wall
  15. Essays On Air: the politics of curry
  16. Why Indonesia's tsunamis are so deadly
  17. our secret weapon to fight corruption
  18. Australia's obsession with opinion polls is eroding political leadership
  19. City + Empire contains wonderful objects but elides the bloody cost of imperialism
  20. The vocational education sector needs a plan and action, not more talk
  21. Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing
  22. Facebook hack reveals the perils of using a single account to log in to other services
  23. Would a better tsunami warning system have saved lives in Sulawesi?
  24. Explainer: what is Helicobacter pylori?
  25. Spirals and circles, snakes and ladders. Why women's super is complex
  26. How two 1990s discoveries have led to (some) cured cancers, and a Nobel Prize
  27. Ten photos that changed how we see human rights
  28. Relax. The divide between the taxed and the 'taxed-nots' isn't new and doesn't buy elections
  29. Labor to hold its own 'hearings' for bank victims
  30. Why a national apology and redress for discharged LGBT service members matters
  31. Our fast-growing cities and their people are proving to be remarkably adaptable
  32. rivers were the highways of Australia's colonial history
  33. The NDIS hasn't made much difference to carers' opportunities for paid work
  34. A new national set of priorities for VET would make great social and economic sense
  35. Satellite measurements of slow ground movements may provide a better tool for earthquake forecasting
  36. Why the media needs to be more responsible for how it links Islam and Islamist terrorism
  37. Three simple steps to fix our banks
  38. Retraction of a journal article doesn't make its findings false
  39. Hayne holds fire, but the banks' day of reckoning is coming
  40. The NDIS is delivering 'reasonable and necessary' supports for some, but others are missing out
  41. Women’s surfing riding wave towards gender equity
  42. what is Pentecostalism, and how might it influence Scott Morrison's politics?
  43. Trust has to be as important as profit if banks and their boards are to regain their corporate legitimacy
  44. The planned national waste policy won't deliver a truly circular economy
  45. Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream
  46. why did mammals go the fur route, rather than developing feathers?
  47. The problem isn't dockless share bikes. It's the lack of bike parking
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