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Health debate echoes past and shows no vision for more reform 27 Aug 2013 | 12:33 pm
Today, the National Press Club hosted a debate between minister for health Tanya Plibersek and shadow minister Peter Dutton. I went to Canberra for the show and what was outstanding about this debate ...
Elephant in the ballroom: ignoring privacy in the federal election 27 Aug 2013 | 09:51 am
In this election campaign the major parties are carefully dancing round an elephant in the ballroom. The elephant is big and a bit frightening. Its name is privacy policy. Recent months have seen exp...
Politicians have forgotten the ‘dry’ in dry tropics and the change in the climate 27 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
Northern futures, northern voices: It seems everyone has ideas about how Australia’s north could be better, but most of those ideas come from the south. In this six-part weekly series, developed by th...
Explainer: what is E.coli? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:42 am
There has been a small outbreak of E. coli infection in Brisbane. Three children and one adult who attended the Brisbane Royal Agricultural Show, also known as Ekka, tested positive for the bacterial ...
FactCheck: the Liberal Party's 'Rudd's record' ad 27 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
Election FactCheck is checking key claims in political advertisements. Here we look at the “Rudd’s record” ad from the Liberal Party. Kevin Rudd was borrowing $100 million every day. Now we have a $2...
Why Abbott is right to abandon surplus promise 27 Aug 2013 | 09:06 am
After beating up Kevin Rudd and Labor over debt and deficits for years, Tony Abbott has now dumped any return to surplus mantra, merely saying a Coalition government would beat Labor’s bottom line ove...
Change in packaging presents a fresh Miley Cyrus commodity 27 Aug 2013 | 08:55 am
Miley Cyrus’s coming of age continued in a most spectacular fashion on Monday night at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York. Cyrus’s performance of We Can’t Stop involved her emerging from the stoma...
A more sustainable Australia: measuring success 27 Aug 2013 | 07:22 am
A more sustainable Australia. As the 2013 election campaign continues, we’ve asked academics to look at some of the long-term issues affecting Australia – the issues that will shape our future. How s...
When the going gets tough, tough guys get the wife and kids out 27 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
It’s an image as familiar as the mea culpa sympathetic TV interview. Bloke has the affair, gets caught with the sex worker, tweets out poorly lit photos of his dangly bits. He does the deed, delivers ...
Stuttering is common, but for pre-schoolers, not necessarily harmful 27 Aug 2013 | 05:27 am
What did Moses, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Claudius, Lewis Carroll and King George VI have in common? They were all known to stutter. A new study – by me and my collaborators around Australi...
