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The widespread feeling that the Morrison Government is doomed will only be reinforced by this week's outbreak of hostilities between the former and current prime ministers, writes Michelle Grattan.
By Michelle Grattan
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The big banks each contribute tens of millions of dollars in sponsorships and donations to community organisations, but are these contributions overshadowed by the hundreds of millions in fees they have wrongfully taken from customers?
By chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici
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Don't despise the 'international raiders' in the Melbourne Cup, writes Richard Hinds. They're not foreign athletes trying to ruin Aussie dreams — they're just horses.
By Offsiders columnist Richard Hinds
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A new campaign asks Australians to thank veterans. I served for 25 years, but I'd rather you thanked those who work tirelessly in the public interest with a fraction of the recognition, writers Rodger Shanahan.
By Rodger Shanahan
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Have you ever been around people who spend more time looking at their phone than they do at you? Then you know what it feels like to be "phubbed" — and you're probably guilty of doing it yourself.
By Yeslam Al-Saggaf
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In October, more women than average were killed allegedly at the hands of a current or former partner, yet this statistic has largely gone unnoticed, writes Silke Meyer.
By Silke Meyer
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If you've ever thought your poo is just a bunch of dead cells, think again. Most of it is alive, teeming with billions of microbes. Here's what studies in healthy adults reveal makes up our poo, writes Vincent Ho.
By Vincent Ho
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The Home Affairs Minister citing the Howard government's record of getting people out of detention isn't helping a Government feeling the heat over children kept on Manus and Nauru, writes political editor Andrew Probyn.
By political editor Andrew Probyn
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Australia's revolving door prime ministership pales beside the political crisis engulfing Sri Lanka. Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa both claim to hold the position, and nations are taking sides as Sri Lankans take to the streets, writes Linda Mottram.
By Linda Mottram
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An article on ABC News suggests that to avoid linguistic catastrophes caused by apostrophes we should just stop using them. However, the correct use of this most special member of our alphabet avoids much confusion. And besides, it's not that hard, writes Roslyn Petelin.
By Roslyn Petelin
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By 2019, the Russia's Pacific military division is expected to receive more than 6,240 pieces of new and upgraded equipment, including battle tanks, missiles and heavy artillery, aircraft, electronic warfare systems and more. It may be time to re-evaluate Australia's Russia strategy, writes Alexey Muraviev.
By Alexey Muraviev
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Humiliation, rising sick leave and reputational damage. It costs us $46 billion every year, not to mention the lives ruined in the process, so why is workplace bullying still so prevalent, asks Peter Fleming.
By Peter Fleming
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Gavin McInnes will be the latest in a string of provocative, right-wing speakers to visit Australia. Each tour pushes the public debate further to the right, with more scope for conflict, writes Kaz Ross.
By Kaz Ross
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The independent review into the ball-tampering affair has found Cricket Australia and its administrators wanting, but why is it only Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft who have been punished, asks David Mark.
By National Sport Editor David Mark
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The sadness in the Lion Air crash is that no-one would really be shocked by it — the Indonesian aviation sector has a bad reputation for good reason, writes former Indonesian correspondent Samantha Hawley.
By Europe bureau chief Samantha Hawley
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For a certain kind of language critic, highlighting errors of punctuation is a sport unto itself. But signs outside cafes and expert grammarians agree: we'd probably be better off without the apostrophe.
By Tiger Webb
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Virtually out of nowhere, Jair Bolsonaro has become Brazil's first right-wing president since the end of military dictatorship in the 1980s, with little legislative achievement, no service in a position higher than MP and a trail of verbal menace that has many fearful of what comes next.
By Linda Mottram
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It is evident from the 145-page culture review that the board of Cricket Australia and its senior executives sit at polar opposites to those who play the game — and until that vital relationship is fixed, cricket in Australia will not heal, writes Tracey Holmes.
By Tracey Holmes
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Party identities are the clearest they have been in modern American politics with Republicans and Democrats locked in a bitter war. Caught in the middle, American voters will front the ballot box on November 6 in a different way to usual, writes Micheline Maynard.
By Micheline Maynard
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State governments are often painted as inefficient and corrupt, with intermittent calls to remove them. But state government matters for democracy for several reasons, writes Frank Bongiorno.
By Frank Bongiorno