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Editor's note
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Even before Boris Johnson became UK prime minister in July, Brexit was a mess. But since he took the top job, it has only become more so. And as Ben Wellings writes, today is shaping up as the most important day so far as Johnson is expected again to try to force a general election from a parliament that has him in a headlock.
Over the weekend, work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd resigned from Johnson’s cabinet in the latest blow to his attempts to make Brexit happen. But to break the parliamentary impasse over a no-deal divorce, an election will have to be called, and soon.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top stories
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In Boris Johnson’s short time as prime minister, the Brexit mess has become only messier.
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Ben Wellings, Monash University
As Boris Johnson's tactics cause deep rifts within the Conservative Party, the UK faces a Brexit of radical conservatism - and plenty of risks.
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Robert Mugabe during his swearing-in ceremony in Harare, 2008. The former Zimbabwean president has died aged 95.
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Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand
Where should we place Mugabe among the pantheon of African nationalists who led their countries to independence?
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Labor’s so-called Rental Affordability Scheme did little to make those who most needed it, but it helped landlords.
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Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute; Jessie Horder-Geraghty, Grattan Institute
The government is being pressed to bring back a particularly ineffective and wasteful scheme.
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The woke concept has morphed from social licence to caricature.
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Abas Mirzaei, Macquarie University
The "woke" concept peaked on the back of the Black Lives Matter movement, then became a marketing trend. Now being woke is tricky territory.
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Health + Medicine
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Libby Callaway, Monash University; Sue Sloan, Monash University
Around 6,000 Australians aged under 65 still live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.
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Arosha Weerakoon, The University of Queensland
A recent study was the first to establish a way to regrow tooth enamel. But what is tooth enamel and why is it so important?
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Education
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Michele Simons, Western Sydney University; Anna Sullivan, University of South Australia; Bruce Johnson, University of South Australia
If we don’t find ways to keep new teachers in schools then we face a teacher shortage, larger class sizes and more people teaching outside their field of expertise.
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Science + Technology
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G. Gregory Haff, Edith Cowan University
Genetic testing could help us build targeted and effective training routines for athletes, but the emerging science could also introduce opportunity for discrimination in the sporting world.
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Lindy Orthia, Australian National University
The first peer-reviewed survey of Doctor Who fans' attitudes to science reveals it was literally life-changing TV for some. But the verdicts were surprisingly nuanced and sometimes contradictory.
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Cities
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Roberta Ryan, University of Technology Sydney
Australians' need for smaller and more diverse dwellings is growing. The planning system is not providing enough of this housing, and self-serving opposition to it should be resisted.
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Business + Economy
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan discusses the slowing economy, and the response to Channel 9's decision to host a fundraiser for the Liberal party.
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Arts + Culture
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Jo Caust, University of Melbourne
Both the Australia Council's and South Australia's new five-year arts plans talk the talk, but fail to provide vital arts funding and structural support for a diverse arts culture.
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Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne
Fifty years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the NSW coast at Little Bay, the Art Gallery of NSW celebrates the long term consequences of John Kaldor's creative philanthropy.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
After losing her marginal seat of Corangamite at the election, Sarah Henderson is set to return to parliament after winning preselection for a Victorian Senate vacancy.
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Marilyn McMahon, Deakin University
There are now more legally innocent people in jail in Victoria than there were convicted prisoners in 2005.
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Environment + Energy
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Dylan McConnell, University of Melbourne
The federal government this week heralded Australia's renewable energy performance. But the outlook leaves little cause for celebration.
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Harry Hendon, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Andrew B. Watkins, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Eun-Pa Lim, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Griffith Young, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Each spring, winds circling the South Pole weaken. If they weaken enough, they can actually reverse – causing rapid warming.
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Troy Baisden, University of Waikato
A proposed plan to clean up New Zealand's waterways draws clear limits on the expansion of dairy farming and irrigation, as well as on the use of nitrogen fertiliser in some key areas.
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Kingsley Dixon, Curtin University
A startling phenomenon occurs after a fire tears through a landscape. So what is it in bushfires that gives plants this kiss of life?
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