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Pie Face is going the way of Sizzler and Pizza Hut dine-in restaurants. What does this country do to its fast food chains?
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Redfern’s controversial mural poses questions to the next generation of Australian leaders – and to the War Memorial, where it could easily belong
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‘Twas the month before Christmas, and all through the house, everyone was eagerly awaiting the latest gifts from Guardian Australia
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David Murray’s interim report into the financial system shows he’s not simply a mouthpiece for big money. Even modest reforms could do a lot of good
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The Senate crossbench has supported the passing of broad new migration and maritime powers – but what exactly do they mean for the minister, asylum seekers and Australia’s obligations under international law?
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There’s no doubt Australia needs to invest more in medical research, but it’s more important to train enough doctors to become medical researchers
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The new political correctness demands that we live according to the most ungenerous interpretation of our opinions – including, apparently, about how we raise our children
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Joe Pappalardo: When a space startup has twice the force for a fraction of the cost, you know the US government has a problem
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Chancellor George Osborne has credibility – but the spectre of 1930s-style cuts may be too much for voters to accept
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Jonathan Freedland: The chancellor has credibility. But the spectre of 1930s-style cuts may be too much for voters to accept
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Editorial: The collective emancipation Martin Luther King envisaged for African Americans never came about. The result has been chronic confrontation on the streets
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Editorial: There’s no way of bringing back the old manufacturing jobs, but shrewd investment in arts and culture can create a different kind of industry
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Dominic Carman: When my father defended him in court, the great Liberal seemed to be on trial for his sexuality. Today it wouldn’t matter
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Michael Clarke: Regin malware and the Sony Pictures hacking show how vulnerable the west feels about its cyber dominance
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Deborah Orr: The allegations against Cosby seemed more disturbing because he is black. Clearly I see black celebrities as under a greater obligation to be exemplars – and that’s wrong, because it suggests black failings are more serious than white ones
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Giles Fraser: It seems that making the human stand out as morally particular requires some sort of leap of faith
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Alex Andreou: Good riddance to these nasty symbols, but the stigma towards homeless people by city officials and care workers are harder to shift
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Marina Hyde: Giving birth in hospital these days is a hallucinatorily exhausting experience – and the cuts mean it’s about to get even worse
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Ian Jack: The story of low-income tenants facing 400% rent hikes thanks to a profit-hungry consortium seemed just the kind of cause Londoners would rally behind. But even with Russell Brand in the vanguard, the barricades remain unstormed
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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: So Nigel Farage thinks breastfeeding mothers should go and sit in the corner. But why stop there if you don’t want women to offend?
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Hilary Devey: Under my brief reign, our youth-obsessed culture would pass its sell-by date – and education policy would wise up
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Laura Kay: You told us: The neighbours responded to our polite requests by making as much noise as humanly possible, shredding my nerves
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Hugh Muir: The absurd ban on sending books to prisoners has been overturned thanks to the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
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Phillip Agnew: When my fellow young leaders and I walked into the Oval Office this week, we felt empowered and powerless at the same time. The president said we shouldn’t demand too much, too soon
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Jessica Valenti: Of all the people’s experiences we should be listening to right now, white people are at the bottom of the totem pole
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George Osborne has accused the BBC of using hyperbole in its coverage of spending cuts. The BBC said its coverage was fair and balanced, and that it asked the questions its audience wanted answers to. Which of the two would you put your trust in?
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Introducing five new columnists for the Guardian Australia
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Let's look at a few of the key themes from 2014 and see if we can figure out a story about Tony Abbott and his team.
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Clarissa the possum sets the stage for hot political issues which need to be debated
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The police officer who shot dead an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, leading to weeks of unrest, will not face state criminal charges, it was announced on Monday
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First Dog on the Moon: No cuts to education, no cuts to health ... and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.
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Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are being closed because they're "unviable". No, it's not all about you, white people
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Still wondering if renewables make you sick? This latest inquiry will be the one that sets your symptoms straight.
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First Dog: In which some of Australia's cutest animals are handled inappropriately by the leaders of the free world
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The scene: the G20 in Brisbane. The British prime minister shares trade secrets with his Australian counterpart
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Tiny Ferouz is one year-old and Scott Morrison wants to celebrate in style
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Mikhail Gorbachev has warned that tensions between the US and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new cold war
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French, German and Dutch finance ministers have rounded on Luxembourg for allowing multinational companies to create complicated structures to avoid billions of dollars of tax
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Croquembouche Lad has lost a couple of mates at the Melbourne Cup. He's not too happy about it
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It's First Dog on the Moon's handy Melbourne Cup sweep animals as entertainment form guide
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Too many asylum seekers on boats? Try the Australian solution. It works!
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First Dog: When Brenda the civil disobedience penguin stumbles across some naughty messages, what she learns could bring down the government
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First Dog on the Moon shares some of his early, unpublished work with the Guardian Australia multimedia team. There are curious teen pizzas and sea cucumbers with appalling habits, and of course, early renditions of the Dog himself
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First Dog: When a carrot tries to enter parliament in a questionable outfit, he finds out the hard way who's allowed to be racist in the nation's capital
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International forces touted the Gizab's uprising against the Taliban as a success story of civil courage and a milestone in the decade-long war – but now the district is about to fall back under the control of the insurgents
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The mine-detecting rats of Mozambique will save us all!
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Part one: How Muslim communities are tyring to prevent radicalisationAt the Al Amanah College in western Sydney students learn how to be good Muslims and good Australian citizens.The school principal says education is the key to preventing radicalisation. They are being warned not to be brain-washed by extremist preachers.
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There is no language instinct...
Aeon MagazineFor decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong -
Sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re living in the 21st century. Thanks to a tide of distorted “brain-based” education, some 750 public schools around the United States have been segregating boys and girls into single-sex classrooms that sound like the old woodshop and home economics classes of the 1950s. Consider...
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Graham Readfearn: Religious leaders are taking on coal with polite letters and coal blockades and say they’re in it for the long haul in the name of climate change
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The government’s daily briefings are useful in understanding how this year went so badly wrong so quickly
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Five things we've learned from the year in politics
Katharine Murphy, deputy political editorTony Abbott’s promise that he was ‘putting the adults back in charge’ has been followed by chaos in the Senate, broken promises and budget blues -
Mori’s book, In the Company of Cowards, reveals his battle in the court of public opinion to get Hicks out of Guantanamo Bay, and implications for today’s jihadis
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Maybe it’s the last sitting day, maybe it’s not. More bad headlines for the Abbott government as the treasurer, Joe Hockey, lays the ground for the mid year economic forecast with a statement to parliament. As it happened.
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Australia heads to major climate negotiations in the wake of high level defence of its coal industry
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Newspoll confirms Labor remains in an election winning position as the Coalition positions for a Senate vote on its contentious higher education reforms. All the developments from Canberra, live
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In a system that isolates us from one another, it’s easy to call out stupidity. Bernard Keane and Helen Razer fall into this trap in their new book
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In Shia LaBeouf’s case, mainstream suspicion of contemporary art has intersected with the ingrained cultural habit of victim blaming
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Federal MPs gather in Canberra for the final parliamentary sitting week of 2014 in the wake of Labor’s victory in the Victorian election. A new economic forecast points to a deficit blowout of more than $35bn over the next four years. All the developments from Canberra, live
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The enemies of state-owned media – Rupert Murdoch among them – make the same arguments around the world. Cuts to the ABC, BBC, NPR and PBS are justified the same way
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The prime minister used admissions on ABC cuts and a ragged recent performance to try to reset the debate, but there was little tangible change. There may be a good reason for that
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The Abbott government has been mired in broken promises and stalled budget measures for so long it is hard to recall what a good administration looks like
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The Unicode Consortium, the equivalent of the Académie Française for emojis, is part of a shameful plot to destroy the institution of marriage
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The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to Scott Avery
IndigenousXFirst Peoples disability network policy director Scott Avery takes charge of the @IndigenousX Twitter account this week -
‘Barnacle cleaning’ only works if a difficult issue – like the Abbott government’s $7 Medicare co-payment – is neutered
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Abbott’s pronouncements on Aboriginal Australia coincide with his waning political will to amend the constitution so it meaningfully recognises Indigenous Australians
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Watching the events in Ferguson, Indigenous Australians will immediately draw a parallel with Australia’s response to black deaths in custody
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Joe Pappalardo: When a space startup has twice the force for a fraction of the cost, you know the US government has a problem
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Chancellor George Osborne has credibility – but the spectre of 1930s-style cuts may be too much for voters to accept
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Jonathan Freedland: The chancellor has credibility. But the spectre of 1930s-style cuts may be too much for voters to accept
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Editorial: The collective emancipation Martin Luther King envisaged for African Americans never came about. The result has been chronic confrontation on the streets
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Editorial: There’s no way of bringing back the old manufacturing jobs, but shrewd investment in arts and culture can create a different kind of industry
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Dominic Carman: When my father defended him in court, the great Liberal seemed to be on trial for his sexuality. Today it wouldn’t matter
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Michael Clarke: Regin malware and the Sony Pictures hacking show how vulnerable the west feels about its cyber dominance
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Deborah Orr: The allegations against Cosby seemed more disturbing because he is black. Clearly I see black celebrities as under a greater obligation to be exemplars – and that’s wrong, because it suggests black failings are more serious than white ones
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Giles Fraser: It seems that making the human stand out as morally particular requires some sort of leap of faith
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Alex Andreou: Good riddance to these nasty symbols, but the stigma towards homeless people by city officials and care workers are harder to shift
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Marina Hyde: Giving birth in hospital these days is a hallucinatorily exhausting experience – and the cuts mean it’s about to get even worse
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Ian Jack: The story of low-income tenants facing 400% rent hikes thanks to a profit-hungry consortium seemed just the kind of cause Londoners would rally behind. But even with Russell Brand in the vanguard, the barricades remain unstormed
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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett: So Nigel Farage thinks breastfeeding mothers should go and sit in the corner. But why stop there if you don’t want women to offend?
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Hilary Devey: Under my brief reign, our youth-obsessed culture would pass its sell-by date – and education policy would wise up
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Laura Kay: You told us: The neighbours responded to our polite requests by making as much noise as humanly possible, shredding my nerves
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Hugh Muir: The absurd ban on sending books to prisoners has been overturned thanks to the chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
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Phillip Agnew: When my fellow young leaders and I walked into the Oval Office this week, we felt empowered and powerless at the same time. The president said we shouldn’t demand too much, too soon
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Jessica Valenti: Of all the people’s experiences we should be listening to right now, white people are at the bottom of the totem pole
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George Osborne has accused the BBC of using hyperbole in its coverage of spending cuts. The BBC said its coverage was fair and balanced, and that it asked the questions its audience wanted answers to. Which of the two would you put your trust in?
Cartoon Real letters from Manus asylum seekers, illustrated
Asylum seekers on Manus Island keep writing about the horrific conditions in the camp. Is anybody listening?