Australian voters can choose between a youth unemployment policy from the Coalition, seen as a hand out, and the Labor policy which is a hand up.
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The federal election campaign has highlighted the very different visions of Australia’s renewable energy future held by the major parties.
The government needs not just to hose down the Medicare scare but to drag the debate back onto economic ground.
Despite years of research, nobody knows how to provide evidence of an accurate result while keeping individual e-votes private.
There’s been a deafening silence in recent Australian elections over the environment. But it hasn’t always been the case.
The ups and downs of climate policy since the 2013 federal election.
Experts in the UK, US, India, Indonesia and NZ explain how Australia’s election is playing out abroad and what’s at stake for our neighbours and allies.
How would each of the major parties better regulate the finance and business sectors?
Labor wants the government to guarantee it won’t fully privatise the new Australian Schools Vaccination Register.
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has left the way open for a possible change of portfolio in a re-elected Turnbull government – assuming he holds his seat.
The same-sex marriage debate, mostly at the margins of this campaign, has erupted between the parties and within the Liberals in a foretaste of the free-for-all a plebiscite would bring. Malcolm Turnbull…
It is not too late to change the current direction of Australia’s NBN from one that just meets today’s demands, to one that we need for the future.
How does Australia fare in science and research funding? Where have recent cuts been made? This infographic shows the state of science funding in Australia.
Indi has a potentially large number of floating voters at the local scale, mirroring the situation nationally. What do the people of Indi think about issues of trust?
Political parties should commit to supporting the evidence-based recommendations of decades worth of reports into family violence.
The Greens have successfully cast themselves as the party of climate science. But to hit their climate goals they may need to become even more radical, by embracing technologies like nuclear power.
Malcolm Turnbull is at his best when he can rise above the overtly partisan fray. So it was on Tuesday that he gave one of the most powerful speeches of his campaign, at a hand-back ceremony marking the…
When a system is as complex as that of Medicare’s, it is going to be extremely expensive to rebuild and it is not possible to simply “retrofit” an off-the-shelf product from another company.
Australians regard John Howard as the best living former or current prime minister in handling foreign policy.
The Coalition has ramped up the race to fund the Great Barrier Reef’s protection. All three major parties have promised hundreds of millions of dollars, but where from, and what will they be spent on?
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