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Would you dip into your superannuation to buy your first home? Scott Morrison is hoping your answer is an emphatic “yes” – in fact, he’s hoping so many people would answer “yes” that it tips his government back into power on Saturday, despite the polls showing it is more likely to lose.
This was the policy centrepiece of the formal Liberal Party launch on Sunday, with, as Michelle Grattan writes, the faithful gathering in Brisbane for a last-ditch attempt to sway undecided voters (and of course, those who haven’t voted already).
And the man at the centre of it all? He is the focus of one of two special, longer profile pieces we are running today of the men vying to be prime minister after May 21. Grattan takes a look at Morrison, telling “the story of a leader who has lost, to an extraordinary degree, community trust as well as personal support within his party”.
Meanwhile, Monash University professor Paul Strangio turns his attention to Anthony Albanese, a man whose long journey to the leadership of his party may result in this “unheroic” man rising to the highest political office in the country.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
When he mounted the stage as a warm-up speaker at Sunday’s Liberal launch, Josh Frydenberg received a reception beyond the obligatory enthusiasm required of the handpicked party faithful at these affairs.
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Paul Strangio, Monash University
Unlike many politicians, Albanese does not appear to harbour a sense of entitlement to the top job - and his journey there has been a long one.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
From his “miracle” election win in 2019 to underdog status in 2022, the prime minister’s political story has been one of losing, to an extraordinary degree, community trust and personal support.
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Sara Charlesworth, RMIT University; Elizabeth Hill, University of Sydney
Caring work hasn’t been properly valued for a century, in part because it is thought of as women’s work
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Kate Crowley, University of Tasmania
If a minority government needs backing from the ‘teal’ independents and the Greens, it better be prepared to shift the needle on climate policy.
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Martin Hensher, University of Tasmania
Boosters and vaccinating children mean we’re relying on two pharmaceutical companies to supply Australia’s COVID vaccines. That needs to change.
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Michael Dello-Iacovo, UNSW Sydney; Serkan Saydam, UNSW Sydney
There’s a lot of technological progress required before off-Earth mining operations can be considered feasible.
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Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Edith Cowan University
New research suggests that for millennials and Generation Z, a lack of rules around love and dating brings both loss and liberation.
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Politics + Society
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Benjamin Clark, The Conversation
In this episode of our election podcast, our expert panel discuss the last leaders' debate, the latest polls and what might the future of the unsuccessful major party might look like.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The prime minister’s promise comes as moderate liberals in “teal” seats reveal deep voter dislike for Morrison, which they believe to be a drag on their vote.
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Brian Vandenberg, Monash University
Gambling during homelessness is sometimes motivated out of desperation and in the hope of financial gain.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan discusses the political week that was with Chris Wallace, Associate Professor at the University of Canberra.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The battles in the most high-profile teal seats have become nail-biters as some “soft” voters in these previously safe Liberal heartland electorates are leaving their decisions until very late.
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Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne
Despite. a small approval drop for the opposition leader, Newspoll still predicts a comfortable win for Labor on May 21.
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Health + Medicine
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Martin Veysey, University of Newcastle
The golden rule of gastroenterology is to always heed the ‘call to stool’ when the urge strikes.
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Environment + Energy
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Bethaney Turner, University of Canberra; Valerie Caron, CSIRO
The UK wants gardeners to stop thinking of slugs and snails as pests and to embrace garden biodiversity. Is it worth considering in Australia?
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Arts + Culture
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Joanna Mendelssohn, The University of Melbourne
This year’s winning Archibald Prize portrait, Moby Dickens by Blak Douglas, encapsulates the justifiable rage felt by people living in flooded Bundjalung country
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Business + Economy
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David Waller, University of Technology Sydney; Phillip Morgan, University of Newcastle
Competition is hurting charities and the causes for which they raise funds. There must be a better way.
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Miranda Stewart, The University of Melbourne; Angela Jackson, Monash University; Leonora Risse, RMIT University
So high are childcare costs that on the fourth day or work per week a returning parent can face an effective marginal tax rate as high as 67%
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