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Editor's note
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Scott Morrison seems to have picked up that the prolonged and early start to Australia’s fire season has intensified an anti-government mood in the electorate. And as Michelle Grattan writes, the federal government has to some extent invited this anger by being so inactive and partisan on climate change for years.
The prime minister is struggling to navigate his way through these fraught days leading up to Christmas, and the fires have crystallised the division within the party on climate change – except this time the internal wedge is coming from the left, rather than right.
Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese has his own difficult task in reconciling the disparate strands in Labor’s climate message. He’s trying to come to a story that will be favourably received around the country. But this, like all things climate, won’t be easy.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top stories
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Morrison has refused to meet calls for a national summit or a COAG meeting on the fire effort.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The fires are putting pressure on the government by elevating the climate issue and opening new division among Liberals.
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A scene from the 2017 film Geostorm: many societies have historically attempted to deal with collective trauma by replaying and restaging it in art.
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Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia
Natural disasters are becoming more frequent and Hollywood cinema has kept pace. In a time of global warming, these 'eco-disaster' films are fraught with meaning.
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A genetic “clock” lets scientists estimate how long extinct creatures lived. Wooly mammoths could expect around 60 years.
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Benjamin Mayne, CSIRO
Knowing an animal's normal lifespan is hugely important for conservation efforts, but it's harder to find out than you'd think.
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Australia’s budget bottom line has been assisted by the price of iron ore, which spiked in 2019 as a result of the tailings dam spill disaster near the town of Brumadinho, Brazil, in January.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Charter of Budget Honesty aside, we can expect assumptions that stretch credulity so the Australian government can maintain its surplus forecast.
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Science + Technology
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Katharine Kemp, UNSW; Rob Nicholls, UNSW
The ACCC's inquiry was launched to address concerns about the market power of major digital platforms, such as Google and Facebook, and their impact on Australia's businesses and media.
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Politics + Society
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Mark Evans, University of Canberra; Gerry Stoker, University of Canberra; Max Halupka, University of Canberra
It's not that young people don't like politics – they just want to do politics differently.
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Health + Medicine
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Francesco Paolucci, University of Newcastle; Adrian Melia, University of Newcastle; Josefa Henriquez, Università di Bologna
Young people should pay less for private health insurance. So should people who are healthy, as they're less likely to access private health care.
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Lidia Morawska, Queensland University of Technology
With smoke haze this week at its most hazardous level yet, people on Australia's east coast have been taking precautions to protect their health. But some methods are more effective than others.
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Katherine Gibney, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
For more than a month, Samoa has been battling a measles outbreak of huge proportions. Things are very slowly starting to improve.
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Education
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Luke Zaphir, The University of Queensland
Constructivism is an educational philosophy that underpins the inquiry-based method of teaching, where the teacher facilitates a learning environment in which students discover answers for themselves.
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