Journalists have talked for days about how a minority government situation is going to change the way the Government governs and the Opposition opposes.
As I write this, the Government and Coalition MPs are locked away in their party meetings working out how best they can approach the new landscape.
So I thought this might be a good time to have a glance at what we in the media have been kind of ignoring: How is all this going to change the way we work? More
Public-private dichotomy
The idea that 'free markets' populated by 'rational' men do a better job allocating resources than bureaucrats is flawed. More
Struggle with history
The extraordinary marathon that is the modern US presidential election process is getting underway once again. More
Middle East no go
Israel's insistence on continuing to build illegal colonies is just one reason why the current peace talks will fail. More
Gillard has a task that goes beyond normal post-election ministerial reshuffles. More
A survey shows less than half of us would take formal action to protect a child from abuse. More
Gillard will preside over a parliament in which every MP is a potential swinging voter. More
The election battle will pale against the blood letting we're about to see. More
I have discovered what I consider to be a very interesting fact: racists can't spell. More
The ICC's response to the drama of the Lord's Test has mirrored the incident itself. More
Gillard's Parliament 'renovation' looks like it's going to be a surprise-reveal job. More
Remains discovered in Belanglo Forest bring the Ivan Milat horror to the present. More
Which has more dignity, maintain a public silence in the face of grief, or tell all to ACA? More
The Christchurch earthquake reveals the unfortunate reality that tragedy can be good for economic growth. More
The failure of the United States' economy to start producing enough jobs to reduce unemployment will make life very difficult indeed. More
Several economists have now adopted the phrase 'Goldilocks economy' to describe Australia, but our apparently perfect porridge is bound to cool or reheat eventually. More
It comes back to affluent communities and people reaching out to other communities. Giving them a fair go. In this free market rate race lots of people and families are falling off. We can't ignore it. It won't go away and cancer will spread eventually. Government alone cannot solve it. Good people, privileged people, wealthy people - please, please get directly involve and make a difference before it's too late.
Yohan, on 'Beating the Odds' (via story comment)
Overdose was simplistic, manipulative and one-sided.
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Clouds are reflected in water on the Yarra River floodplains outside the town of Healesville, north of Melbourne, on September 8, 2010. (David Brinkley)
Does a new political paradigm require a new media paradigm?
How will the world economy look in 2025? Mark Thirlwell, in Inside Story, looks at the consensus view – and the possibility of a few surprises.
"It turns out, for example, that forecasters trying to predict the growth and inflation rate in the United States in just one year’s time do about as well as tossing a coin."
Giles Parkinson, in Climate Spectator, on the race to replace Penny Wong.
"Labor has to learn how to sell its climate policy, and the new parliament will require someone with considerable negotiating skills to deal with the Greens and the independents. Wong is seen as more of a technocrat than a wheeler-dealer."
President Obama the post-Atlanticist has European leaders shaking their heads, writes Roger Cohen in The New York Times.
"Since taking office, President Obama has reached out to the Muslim world as a whole, to China, to Turkey and to Iran, but has devoted scant serious diplomatic energy to Europe."
The Catholic Church claims the privileges of statehood, and allows the protection of paedophile priests under canon law, writes Geoffrey Robertson in the New Statesman.
"As head of that Church, Benedict XVI should be welcomed enthusiastically to Britain. But watch out whenever he wears his opulent robes of statehood, and look at him through the eyes of the thousands of small boys who have been bewitched, buggered and bewildered by priests protected under canon law."
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The Independents and Greens have made it clear they want action on climate change.
The new government is already under attack from an opposition that promises to be ferocious.
An Aboriginal dictionary in the Yolgu language has been developed to help doctors communicate with their patients.
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The essence of the problem is not individual journalists but the structure of expectations that they reflect and reinforce. Until journalists themselves recognise this, then, they will not change.
David Griffiths, on Never mind the conflict, let's report the Parliament (via story comment)