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In a sign of how radically the federal election has reshaped the political landscape, today Peter Dutton is due to be elected unopposed as Liberal leader.
This is not what anyone was expecting before the election. If Scott Morrison lost, Josh Frydenberg was supposed to take on the leadership. Now, as Michelle Grattan writes, “a shattered parliamentary party has nowhere else to go”.
Meanwhile, the Nationals’ leadership is up for grabs. Barnaby Joyce faces a challenge at today’s post-election party room meeting. Joyce’s deputy David Littleproud and backbencher Darren Chester have both announced they will run.
But while new players are lining up, is the politics around it any different?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to “change the way” politics operates in Australia and rebuild respect for the profession. This comes off the back of a hugely uninspiring election campaign and soaring levels of distrust in government.
Australian National University professor Ariadne Vromen researches how people participate in politics. Today, she describes four practical, achievable ways to improve the way our political system works. As Vromen writes, “with a new government there is a rare opportunity to re-engage citizens in policy-making and politics”.
If Albanese is serious about making that change, he should read on.
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Judith Ireland
Deputy Editor, Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Dutton is set to walk unopposed into the opposition leader’s job on Monday. A shattered parliamentary party has nowhere else to go.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Joyce’s deputy David Littleproud and backbencher Darren Chester have both announced they will run for the leadership of the Nationals.
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Ariadne Vromen, Australian National University
New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to ‘change the way’ we do politics and ‘rebuild respect’. An expert on political participation explains what to do next.
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Xiujian Peng, Victoria University
For all the talk of ‘the Chinese century’, population trends suggest influence might move elsewhere – including to neighbouring India, whose population looks set to overtake China in the next decade.
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Kelly Burrowes, University of Auckland
Authors writing for Nature journals will also need to separate sex and gender data, so it can’t just be lumped in with other results.
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Debra Rickwood, University of Canberra
Suddenly being awash in tears shows a strong empathy response – a key component of emotional intelligence.
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Politics + Society
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Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney
News Corp has its path on relentless right-wing championing, and it’s unlikely to change its ways now.
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Mary Anne Kenny, Murdoch University
Beyond allowing one family to go ‘home to Bilo’, what else we can expect the new Labor government will do about thousands more asylum seekers and refugees?
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Emma La Rouche from the University of Canberra’s Media and Communications team
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Anne Twomey, University of Sydney
Of 44 referendums put to the Australian people since federation, only eight have passed – but those championing a First Nations Voice to Parliament need not be deterred.
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Joanne Wallis, University of Adelaide; Maima Koro, University of Adelaide
Before we work ourselves into a frenzy over Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Solomon Islands, it is worth pausing for breath.
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Health + Medicine
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Vasso Apostolopoulos, Victoria University; Maja Husaric, Victoria University
The COVID isolation period is seven days in Australia, but you might still be infectious after that if you have symptoms and a positive RAT.
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Mark Morgan, Bond University; Amanda Gwee, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Jason Roberts, The University of Queensland; Nicole Allard, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory; Tari Turner, Monash University
Here’s who is eligible, the benefits and side effects to consider.
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David Wright, Monash University
Our new research with mice visualised how differently aged brains pump out toxic protein waste during sleep.
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Adrian Esterman, University of South Australia
Knowing whether it’s safe to travel is harder in the age of COVID. This travel guide may help.
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Science + Technology
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Joanne Hall, RMIT University; Geetika Verma, RMIT University; Matthew P. Skerritt, RMIT University
Many organisations abide by a “zero trust” rule wherein absolute trust is placed in nothing, apart from a central identity and access management system. But what happens when this system is breached?
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Environment + Energy
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Mike Joy, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
A new study of dairying in Canterbury shows previous estimates vastly underestimate the impact of intensive farming. A 12-fold reduction in cow numbers could be needed to meet safe water standards.
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Madeline Taylor, Macquarie University
The soaring power prices expected to hit Australians are yet another reason the Albanese government should turbocharge its efforts on renewable energy and storage.
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Ann Borda, The University of Melbourne; Andreea Molnar, Swinburne University of Technology; Cristina Neesham, Newcastle University; Prof Patty Kostkova, UCL
We can use AI to protect nature and human health. But first, we have to expand AI beyond being entirely human-centred.
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Education
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Linda J. Graham, Queensland University of Technology; Callula Killingly, Queensland University of Technology; Jenna Gillett-Swan, Queensland University of Technology; Penny Van Bergen, University of Wollongong
A third of students say they don’t like school, and that dislike often begins around the time they enter high school. But the reasons they give point the way to solutions to this problem.
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Books + Ideas
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Helen Young, Deakin University; Geoff M Boucher, Deakin University
Extremists have a long and successful history of spreading their ideas through fiction.
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Business + Economy
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Steven Hamilton, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Begoña Dominguez, The University of Queensland; Chris Edmond, The University of Melbourne; Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute; John Quiggin, The University of Queensland; Renee Fry-McKibbin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Richard Holden, UNSW Sydney; Saul Eslake, University of Tasmania; Warwick J. McKibbin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The independent review of the Reserve Bank should be headed by someone from outside the country say 12 leading economists in an open letter to the treasurer.
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