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Accentuate the negative: why the Liberal Party's fondness for 'no' might ultimately backfire
In light of the 2022 election results, offering voters more of what they just rejected is unlikely to be a winning strategy.
Rising seas and a great southern star: Aboriginal oral traditions stretch back more than 12,000 years
Ancient stories of the sea and the sky date back to the end of the last ice age.
From handing out their own flyers, to sell-out games: how the Matildas won over a nation
Whatever happens in the quarter final against France, in many ways the Matildas have already won before they even set foot on the pitch.
Out of the shadows: why making NZ’s security threat assessment public for the first time is the right move
The Security Intelligence Service needs public support and trust to do its work well. Adding a degree of transparency to it’s annual threat assessment should help.
Grattan on Friday: The Coalition's likely embrace of nuclear energy is high-risk politics
Peter Dutton has been open since the election about nuclear energy being on the Coalition’s agenda - but that has allowed the government, especially Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, to attack the idea
Why a Queensland court overturned a ban on religious knives in schools
Not only did the Queensland law prohibit the freedom of religion of a small vulnerable minority, it did so deliberately.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor president Wayne Swan on the party's coming national conference
In this podcast we talk with Wayne Swan, the Labor Party National President. Swan was treasurer and deputy prime minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments.
New evidence suggests the world's largest known asteroid impact structure is buried deep in southeast Australia
Research on the Deniliquin structure points to an asteroid impact that would have been more than double the scale of the one that killed the dinosaurs.
Ageing in a housing crisis: growing numbers of older Australians are facing a bleak future
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
Word from The Hill: Voice proponents and opponents draw succour from heritage backdown; ALP toughens Palestine policy to placate party; more questions follow Lehrmann inquiry
In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the WA government scrapping a controversial law, the government's policy on Palestine, and the fallout from the Lehrmann case inquiry.
Australia's decision to again use the term 'occupied Palestinian territories' brings it into line with international law
Since 2014, Australian officials have generally avoided using the terms “occupied” or “occupation” in relation to Palestine. That has now changed.
Efforts to find safe housing for homeless youth have gone backwards. Here's what the new national plan must do differently
The last time an Australian government made housing the homeless a priority was 15 years ago. The Albanese government’s promised plan is a second chance to get it right by drawing on models that work.
'No' to the Voice takes lead in Essential poll; huge swing to Libs at WA state byelection
Polling continues to bring bad news for supporters of the Voice to Parliament.
Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed
Worldcoin wants to provide ‘proof of personhood’ in an AI-filled future, but critics and governments are unimpressed
Australia's new development aid policy provides clear vision and strategic sense
The federal government’s long awaited new aid and development policy offers a clear and galvanising vision of how Australia should deal with the complex issue.
WA Premier Roger Cook says 'sorry' as he dumps Aboriginal cultural heritage law
WA Premier Roger Cook has apologised to the state for getting the rollout “wrong”, while rejecting suggestions he was under pressure from the federal government to drop it to remove a referendum impediment
