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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been sharing digs with the prime minister in The Lodge this week, which has inevitably led to questions about him “measuring up the curtains”. But as Michelle Grattan writes, while Frydenberg has never hidden his ambition to hold the top job, he is also loyal, and with Morrison passing three years as PM, there has been no white-anting.
There is more than one path to the top job for Frydenberg — the easiest, of course, would be a smooth transition sometime during the electoral cycle if Morrison wins the election that is likely between March and May next year. And Morrison has already shifted into campaign mode. In a week when New South Wales went past 1000 COVID cases in a day and Victoria’s outbreak continued to cause deep concern, Morrison was again pressing towards “opening up” once the country reaches the 70-80% vaccination rates agreed on by National Cabinet.
But anxiety remains in the states, particularly those that have been relatively COVID-free: Queensland and Western Australia. At some point, though, Grattan says, the states will have to wrangle with the “opening up” question, and the very different implications that may have for communities across the country.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Despite being the week that the NSW government lost control of COVID, Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in full campaign mode – a glimpse of the formidable fighter we saw in 2019.
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The Irrawaddy
Tim Harcourt, University of Technology Sydney
Arrested on February 5, Sean Turnell awaits trial in Myanmar on charges he tried to leave the country with sensitive financial information.
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Philip Britton, University of Sydney
Children can get long COVID, but it seems to be less common than in adults. And they tend to recover quicker.
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Andrew Schmulow, University of Wollongong
The royal commission wanted the corporate cop to first ask ‘why not litigate?’. The treasurer’s new guidelines suggest it should instead ask ‘why not negotiate?’.
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Richard Holden, UNSW
Australia could again fall into the trap of false economies by opening up too soon.
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Nik Taylor, University of Canterbury; Heather Fraser, Queensland University of Technology
Even though The Chair confronts some of the tougher realities of higher education, the world it depicts is still rosier than the reality.
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Dominique Potvin, University of the Sunshine Coast
It’s a clash that might rival Crocodile Dundee in New York City. While both iconic birds of prey are similarly sized, one is bolder and more ferocious.
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Arts + Culture
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Liz Evans, University of Tasmania
There’s something disturbing about a story tracking a character’s mental decline for thrills. Happily, Paula Hawkins’ new novel, A Slow Fire Burning, joins a genre of books bucking this trend.
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Cassandra Pybus, University of Tasmania
Smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, syphilis … a new book describes how recurring epidemics nearly wiped out Australia’s First Peoples.
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Politics + Society
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Camilla Nelson, University of Notre Dame Australia; Catharine Lumby, University of Sydney
A new book looks at the family court system, just as the Family Court of Australia merges with the Federal Circuit Court.
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Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne
After the Coalition fell behind Labor federally in recent polls, it appears to have clawed some of that back – and voters are keen on opening up once vaccination rates are high enough.
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Jock Collins, University of Technology Sydney; Carol Reid, Western Sydney University; Dimitria Groutsis, University of Sydney; Katherine Watson; Stuart Hughes, Western Sydney University
The Afghans people surveyed were optimistic and positive about their lives in Australia — and felt welcome in their communities.
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Science + Technology
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Mark Ziemann, Deakin University; Mandhri Abeysooriya, Deakin University
New research shows gene name autocorrection remains a problem for genomics articles. Here’s why it’s a wake up call for research reproducibility.
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Dominic Dwyer, University of Sydney
Since the WHO’s investigation earlier this year, several papers have come to the same conclusion regarding the likely origins of SARS-CoV-2. Yet progress is too slow.
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Education
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Adam Austen Kay, The University of Queensland
New research shows mindfulness training can be effective when delivered online. The benefits for university students included one particularly notable development for well-being.
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Renee Morrison, University of Tasmania
If you think the ‘digital natives’ have better online search skills than their parents, you’d be wrong. But simply telling students what to do isn’t the best way to improve their skills.
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Health + Medicine
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Rachelle Binny, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Michael Plank, University of Canterbury; Shaun Hendy, University of Auckland; Siouxsie Wiles, University of Auckland
Several superspreading events had likely infected more than 200 people before New Zealand’s Delta outbreak was detected and the country went into a strict lockdown last week.
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Vasso Apostolopoulos, Victoria University; Jack Feehan, Victoria University
While there are plausible explanations for why this occurs, we can’t be certain of the effect of temperature on SARS-CoV-2. Being indoors in poorly ventilated spaces plays a big role.
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Business + Economy
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Giuseppe Carabetta, University of Sydney
Whether it is reasonable for an Australian employer to mandate vaccination is a case-by-case determination.
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Ivan Indriawan, Auckland University of Technology; Adrian Fernandez-Perez, Auckland University of Technology; Alexandre Garel, Audencia; Alex Edmans, London Business School
A new study using music streaming data to measure national mood underlines how much stock markets are governed by emotion rather than rational calculation.
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Environment + Energy
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Jacqueline Lau, James Cook University; Andrew Song, University of Technology Sydney; Jessica Blythe, Brock University
Understanding the moral dimensions of climate decisions could help promote fairer and more effective climate action
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