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Why Bill Shorten is quitting politics
Bill Shorten has wanted to be the prime minister since he was a teenager. Yesterday he finally gave up that ambition, announcing his resignation from politics. Shorten spent almost two decades in parliament – rising to be opposition leader and contesting two elections, but never winning.
As an architect of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, his legacy is significant. But his political failures have also shaped the country in enduring ways.
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The scientific controversy over head injuries in sport
At a Senate committee last year, the NRL acknowledged the link between head injuries in contact sports and the neurodegenerative disease CTE. But a core member of the NRL’s concussion research group is also one of the most outspoken critics of the link between repeated head injury and CTE, calling it an “invented disease … conjured out of thin air”.
Today, Wendy Carlisle on why the science is still being contested and how the NRL justifies advancing a position that most scientists don’t agree with.
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Thomas Mayo on continuing the fight for recognition
Although Australians voted resoundingly against an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Thomas Mayo – one of the Voice’s key campaigners – has not given up hope. He says while the “Yes” campaign lost the referendum, what they gained was resilience and a new generation of Indigenous leaders ready to take up the fight.
Thomas Mayo has written a new book, Always Was Always Will Be: The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues – outlining a vision for what comes next.
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Why trans people need to be counted in the census
Anthony Albanese’s about face on whether to include questions relating to sexuality and gender identity in the census is coming at a time when the Victorian coroner has specifically asked for more data on the transgender community, following a number of young trans women taking their own lives.
Today, writer and co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia Sam Elkin, on the government’s decision to exclude trans people from the census and why being counted could save lives.
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Is this the end of the Jacqui Lambie Network?
It’s been almost a decade since Jacqui Lambie dramatically quit the Palmer United Party. Since then, she’s become a political force in Canberra and in her home state of Tasmania as the leader of the Jacqui Lambie Network.
But now, the JLN is imploding, after Tammy Tyrrell resigned and two of the three Tasmanian MPs were sacked.
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Inside the ‘white hands on black art’ saga
The most damaging controversy the Indigenous art sector has experienced in years started with a video. The footage shows white studio assistants at the APY Art Centre Collective in South Australia working on canvases from an Indigenous artist, and became the linchpin for a vicious media campaign and provoked a series of investigations.
Today, the APY art scandal and the complicated question of authenticity in the Aboriginal art world.
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Tanya Plibersek and the billion-dollar gold mine
A multi-billion dollar goldmine in NSW had been through all the necessary approvals, but a last-minute decision from the Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, could leave the project dead. Tanya Plibersek has defended the decision, made on cultural heritage grounds on behalf of a group of traditional owners.
The resources industry and the Coalition are furious, with some now claiming cultural heritage laws are being “hijacked” by green groups.
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Jess Hill on how to stop domestic violence
Jess Hill hasn’t been sleeping much lately. For the past three months, she’s been working on a plan to try to end violence against women and children. Now, that plan is out.
The rapid review looks beyond the education campaigns that we have come to understand as domestic violence prevention and calls for a complete overhaul to the way the government responds to men killing women.
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