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Editor's note
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Even as I write this, government frontbenchers are offering their resignations. This is the fallout from yesterday’s leadership challenge, which ended with Malcolm Turnbull surviving by a vote of 48-35. But the government is now on its knees, bleeding profusely. As Chris Wallace writes, Turnbull’s willingness to make himself a hostage of the right wing of his party to become prime minister has backfired spectacularly. The government is so
hopelessly riven that even if Peter Dutton does ascend to the leadership, it will be short-lived. The party will then need to work out what it really is if it wants to be a viable political force again.
And if all the political ructions have your stress levels elevated, you might want to book in that yoga class, or spend some time meditating. Michaela Pascoe unpacks the science on how exactly yoga and mindfulness meditation decrease levels of the stress hormone cortisol and can even help lower your blood pressure.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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To become prime minister, Turnbull made himself a willing hostage at the outset to right-wing policies that contradicted his political persona.
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Chris Wallace, Australian National University
In staying hostage to this right-wing lunge, rather than fighting to move it back to the mainstream, Turnbull erased his moderate face, destroying his only utility - electoral utility - to the Liberals.
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Health + Medicine
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Michaela Pascoe, Victoria University
Meditation and yoga affect the brain's stress response system to help us feel more relaxed. They can even lower our blood pressure.
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Environment + Energy
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Rohan James Lloyd, James Cook University
The $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation has been criticised as a politically calculated move. But governments have been asking what the reef can do for them ever since colonial times.
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Sarah Graham, University of Sydney
It's time Australian states took a lesson from US states when it comes to working around obstructive federal climate change policies.
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Arts + Culture
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Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario, Monash University
There is nothing new about a shoe fetish. Fairy tales have long featured amazing, high-tech footwear: from seven-league boots to glass slippers to red shoes.
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Dennis Altman, La Trobe University
In the midst of the same-sex marriage debate, Melbourne held The Coming Back Out Ball, an evening to honour queer elders.
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Julian Meyrick, Flinders University; Robert Phiddian, Flinders University; Tully Barnett, Flinders University
At a time when even accountants are looking for a more compelling understanding of value, it is imperative that the arts – where individual experience is central – resist the evangelical call of quantification.
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Science + Technology
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Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide
No country can lay claim to sovereignty over a planet, moon or rocky body. But in the absence of clear laws regulating mining in space, it's a case of first in, best dressed for resource extraction.
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Claudio Bozzi, Deakin University
Australia was once at the forefront of RPAS regulation, but we now trail other jurisdictions – and we’re alarmingly misaligned with international best practice.
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Business + Economy
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Sue Williamson, UNSW; Linda Colley, CQUniversity Australia
The vast majority of managers said they wanted "the best person for the job". They had less idea of just who that might be, or how to ensure appointments on merit and equity targets co-exist.
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Flavio Souza, University of South Australia
We don't actually know how NDIS participants weigh their personal goals and then make choices about achieving them through services, supports, therapies and interventions.
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Cities
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Colin Caprani, Monash University
Australian bridges are generally safe, but we don't have transparent information about how often they're inspected or maintained.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
In her resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Fierravanti-Wells reminded him that months ago she had told him Peter Dutton should become deputy Liberal leader, replacing Julie Bishop.
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Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University
Labor has managed more cohesion in recent years because its left and right wings have shifted to common ground - partly through its factions.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Peter Dutton has a solid base on which to work to become Liberal leader. That's the way it usually goes- wound the first time, kill the second.
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Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
The crowding of the centre-right is having profound consequences for Australian politics, not just Turnbull’s troubled time as prime minister.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The prime minister has survived a challenge from the conservative wing of his party- but the deep divisions remain.
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