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The making of 'The Killing Season' matched the intensity of the story we were telling. There was a contest between Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard to assert their own narrative as the true version of history. We had to find a path through the no-man's land between each side, the former leaders and their supporters. Finding the truth in such disputed circumstances was bound to be difficult

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In the delivery room of a hospital, as women become mothers, apparently the most common words uttered -- or shrieked, yelled and howled -- are "I'm never having sex again!"

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Where are the BHPs, the Glencores and the Rio Tintos of the agriculture sector who are going to drive this "Dining Boom? Where will the investment in Australian agriculture come from?

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Mother's Day -- if you're struggling with infertility, it is possibly the cruelest of all commercialised celebrations. As if spending an entire day being reminded of what you are missing isn't bad enough, there are also the weeks leading up to that day with every shop, petrol station, TV show and magazine capitalising on the event. Aside from retreating into a cave there is literally no escape.

More than 490 cities have committed to reducing emissions and publicly reporting their progress. These include our home cities of New York, Rio de Janeiro and Paris, along with London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Jakarta, and myriad others.

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For the Government, economic transition doesn't include the need to restructure our energy and transport systems to address Australia's contribution to climate change. In fact, the budget laid out no vision on how the government conceives of Australia's place in a carbon constrained world

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The Queen recently turned 90. By doing so, she has already lived six years longer than the average Australian female. One might expect this would be the case given her privileged life, but science suggests that she has more in common with us than we think.

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What if you had to make a decision between continuing to work as a child laborer to make ends meet for your family or planning to risk the choppy waters and dangerous journey of taking a refugee boat from Turkey to Greece? This is the dilemma of Shrivan, a 16-year-old boy who fled Aleppo, Syria three years ago to southern Turkey.

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The changing or not changing of the name is, in my opinion, an unnecessarily charged issue. And with the title business (Miss, Ms, Mrs) that goes with it, it all just gets a bit confusing.

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The racists and bigots of America have always been out there. There have always been hideous trolls on the Internet. But now they are emboldened in a big way by the bellicose Donald Trump. He's opened Pandora's box, and nobody can shut it.

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Weddings are often considered one of the happiest days of your life but the special day on average costs over $65,000. Your big day shouldn't be dampened by the feeling that your bank account and back pocket are now empty, so we've got four tips to help you reduce that final bill.

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Everyone knows you should never get between a politician and a "working family." Working families are the political gold. They pay the tax, while creating the future tax-payers, and they've been the apple of every treasurer's eye since opinion polling was invented. But Tuesday night Scott Morrison erased them from his political sell. Gone in a puff of Mathias Cormann's cigar smoke.

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As the next federal election looms, we all see our Facebook feeds getting slowly more political in displays of slacktivism. But if you are actually passionate about an issue, what can you do that is more meaningful than some Facebook likes or shares, but that still requires minimal effort?

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I decided to ask 12 friends, ranging from 43 to 50 years of age, what they thought about this murky, surging undertow as we forge ahead into the next part of our lives.

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How you judge today's federal budget depends what you think a budget is for. Conventional wisdom has it that the best budgets stimulate the most growth. Conventional cynicism says the winner budgets are the ones that give enough prizes to the right voters to lock in a majority come polling day.

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As the budget draws closer I can only hope, for the sake of Malawi and for the sake of our self-respect, that the cut to Australian aid is not as deep as predicted.

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I don't believe Selena Gomez or Andra Day would intentionally harm a single child, and yet their association with Coke will inevitably set millions of children on a path to poor health. We can't go on letting these stars use their cachet to hook our kids.