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Editor's note
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How on earth does the new prime minister go about rebuilding the Liberal Party from here? Is it even possible? James Walter believes if there’s any hope of reuniting at all, the example of Robert Menzies in the 1940s may offer some wisdom. Menzies was successful in the end - but it took him eight years and defeat in two elections to get there.
But if you’re utterly sick of all the political drama, here’s a lovely read on whether butterflies remember being caterpillars.
And we’ve got some in-house news today as well with the welcome arrival of our new Business and Economy Editor, Peter Martin. A former Commonwealth Treasury official with an honours degree in economics, Peter has worked as the economic correspondent for ABC radio, as the ABC’s Tokyo correspondent and as economics editor of The Age. With UNSW’s Gigi Foster he created The Economists podcast, which showcases economic research on ABC Radio National.
Peter will divide his time between Parliament House and the Australian National University, leading our economics coverage and contributing regular commentary and analysis.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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Josh Frydenberg and Scott Morrison may turn to Robert Menzies’ lessons on how to rebuild a party.
AAP/The Conversation
James Walter, Monash University
Their longest serving leader built the modern Liberal Party after its predecessor collapsed in 1941– but it took him eight years and defeat in two elections.
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Science + Technology
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Michael F. Braby, Australian National University
Scientists were not sure if an adult butterfly could remember things it learned as a caterpillar. Then a study by a team of US scientists found something very interesting.
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Toby Walsh, Data61
Technology companies have immense power over our lives. But why are so many of their employees and others concerned about the ethics of their behaviour?
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Arts + Culture
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Henry Reynolds, University of Tasmania
Australia still hasn't answered how Aboriginal people became protected by British law and lost all their land at the same time. If it can't be resolved here, it might be time for international courts to weigh in.
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Jen Webb, University of Canberra
Every character in The Life To Come is complex, frustratingly unfulfilled, marked by kindness, selfishness, or dumb selflessness. But they are always, entirely, convincing.
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Jo Jones, Curtin University
Kim Scott, whose novel Taboo is shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin award, circles around colonial violence in his work.
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Timothy Kazuo Steains, University of Sydney
Crazy Rich Asians is good for Asian-Americans but not great for Singaporean or broadly Asian politics.
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Health + Medicine
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Cordelia Fine, University of Melbourne; Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne
Gender essentialists who think "men are from Mars and women are from Venus" are more likely to accept gender discrimination and respond negatively when women seek power.
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Education
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Sue Malta, University of Melbourne; Raelene Wilding, La Trobe University
Important programs helping older adults learn how to use the internet are effective but limited.
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Business + Economy
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Edwin Ip, Monash University; Alexander Saeri, Monash University; Morgan Tear, Monash University
Nudges were meant to be a good alternative to regulations, but it may be time to regulate nudges.
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Brendan Markey-Towler, The University of Queensland
Our revolving door prime ministers are the result of the politicians being too responsive to what we think, and there being too few of them.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Coalition's primary vote has plunged 4 points to 33%; Labor's vote has increased from 35% to 41%, in the Australian's poll, which comes as Morrison moved quickly to announce his ministerial team.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled his ministry, rewarding his supporters who also making room for some Peter Dutton supporters - with the exception of Tony Abbott.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
New prime minister Scott Morrison now faces the huge task of reuniting the party and devising policy positions that can satisfy the liberals and conservatives within.
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Gregory Melleuish, University of Wollongong
The National Party has the opportunity to use its role within the Coalition to exercise its influence on behalf of rural Australia.
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Andrew Dodd, University of Melbourne
Media Files is a new monthly podcast, featuring discussion between media researchers, experts and working journalists on the big issues in the media landscape today.
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Morrison would be mistaken if he believed his party’s salvation lay in a further lurch to the right in pursuit of an ill-defined "base"
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Analysis of the polls shows the deposing of Malcolm Turnbull made absolutely no electoral sense.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The new deputy is the Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, 47, from Victoria, who won overwhelmingly, from fellow Victorian Greg Hunt and Queenslander Steve Ciobo.
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Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
Morrison has proved to be conservative on social policy, but wedded to a neo-liberal economic agenda.
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Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University
Turnbull brought a Menzian style to his leadership, but the world has changed quite a bit since Robert Menzies.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Solicitor-General finds Dutton to be "not incapable" of sitting in parliament after questions were raised about his eligibility through section 44 of the Constitution.
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Environment + Energy
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Matthew Biddick, Victoria University of Wellington
How a species of screw pine unique to Lord Howe Island has evolved its own rainwater harvesting system that allows it to grow tall.
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Sam Bruce, CSIRO
The hydrogen economy has been touted for decades as a way to navigate the clean energy transition. Now a new CSIRO roadmap sets out how hydrogen power can become a major energy player.
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