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News
25 Jun 2016
What happened to all the donors?
People are paranoid about their company name being on the front page of the paper.
Karen Middleton
As the major parties prepare their final election advertising blitz, donations have dried up, especially to the Liberal campaign.
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Opinion
25 Jun 2016
Faust among equals
The fact of the matter is the published national opinion polls have the election in a deadlock. Labor has been in front by a nose in three of five polls in the past fortnight.
Paul Bongiorno
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Opinion
25 Jun 2016
Climate control
The refusal of our governments to lower emissions has been accompanied with full awareness of the dangers. And this kind of recklessness would have been functionally impossible without institutional racism.
Naomi Klein
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News
25 Jun 2016
Cost and found
When they put out their lists prior to election day, the public can be reasonably confident in the bottom-line figure the parties attach to their election commitments. In the past that wasn’t the case.
Mike Seccombe
The PBO has proved a boon for accountability, preventing political parties from citing fanciful costings or embarking on ‘black hole’ scare campaigns.
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News
25 Jun 2016
Criminal charges possible regarding detention
Martin McKenzie-Murray
A new report into the operation of detention centres alleges possible criminal negligence by the immigration department and its contractors.
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News
25 Jun 2016
Ruffled feathers
Andrew Stafford
Government efforts to conserve the elusive – and once feared extinct – night parrot have alienated birdwatchers and divided opinion on the best way forward.
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News
25 Jun 2016
A tale of three deaths
He took a drink he had by the side of the bed … He smiled at the room full of his loved ones and closed his eyes. He went to sleep and didn’t wake up.
Rodney Syme
A Victorian parliamentary inquiry’s recommendation that assisted dying be legalised may also lead to welcome changes in palliative care practices.
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World
25 Jun 2016
Anti-foreign sentiment simmering in Australia
Hamish McDonald
China syndrome; Economic Modi-fication; Abbott brigade
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Culture
25 Jun 2016
Big notes
Unearthed by Triple J, singer-songwriter Montaigne has passionate fans, a promising future, and a glorious, if temperamental, voice.
A. H. Cayley
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Television
25 Jun 2016
Hit and myths
Breaking from TV's tradition of explaining Indigenous causes, the ABC’s sci-fi drama Cleverman makes no attempt to heal or instruct.
Helen Razer
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Diary
25 Jun 2016
Gadfly: Exit stage bereft
Diarist-at-large Richard Ackland flies about the nation.
Richard Ackland
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Books
25 Jun 2016
Sean Rabin, Wood Green
Reviewer: LS
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Books
25 Jun 2016
Geoff Manaugh, A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Reviewer: FL
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Books
25 Jun 2016
Moby, Porcelain
Reviewer: JD
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Life
25 Jun 2016
A little knowledge
Dogged by the uncertainty of incurable illness, is there comfort in sometimes not knowing test results?
Georgia Blain
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Food
25 Jun 2016
Steak and mushrooms
How to transform the quintessential pub dish at home.
Andrew McConnell
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Travel
25 Jun 2016
Rapt in plastic
Visiting set locations of a favourite TV show or film can feel like entering an out-of-kilter dream – all the more so when the show is David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.
Andy Hazel
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Portrait
25 Jun 2016
Back in the saddle
A pub lunch with actor Colin Friels.
Emily Bitto
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Quiz
25 Jun 2016
The Aswan High Dam is located in which country?
Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.
Cindy MacDonald
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Sport
25 Jun 2016
Ten out of 10
Meet Rio Olympian Cedric Dubler, a man of many sporting talents.
Richard Cooke