Clare Blumer

• Vote Compass: Australians have no regrets about Tony Abbott's removal

  by Clare Blumer

  Posted May 16, 2016 06:13:32 | Updated May 16, 2016 06:22:31

  Australians remain relaxed and comfortable about the Liberal Party's decision to change prime ministers from Tony Abbott to Malcolm Turnbull, Vote Compass data shows.

  Topics: federal-elections, turnbull-malcolm, abbott-tony, liberals, australia

• Turnbull leads Shorten on question of who voters trust

  by Clare Blumer

  Posted May 15, 2016 19:00:18 | Updated May 16, 2016 06:04:24

  Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten both say the election is about answering the question "who do you trust?", and Vote Compass data suggests Mr Turnbull has the advantage over his opponent.

  Topics: federal-elections, greens, christine-milne, turnbull-malcolm, abbott-tony, bill-shorten, richard-di-natale, rudd-kevin, alp, liberals, australia

• Vote Compass: The top election issues in your state

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 13, 2016 14:30:35 | Updated May 14, 2016 00:00:18

  More than 250,000 people have now filled in ABC's Vote Compass, and the first data out reveals what voters in each state and territory think are the most important issues of the 2016 election.

  Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, refugees, globalisation---economy, educational-resources, health-policy, immigration

• Vote Compass: Party faithful fall in line with campaign priorities

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 13, 2016 10:59:41

  Vote Compass data suggests party supporters are in line with the key campaign messages of the Coalition and the ALP.

  Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, alp, nationals, liberals, greens, federal-parliament

• Vote Compass: Double dissolution trigger not a big issue for voters

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 13, 2016 06:00:15 | Updated May 13, 2016 07:55:09

  It's the issue that triggered the election but industrial relations is close to the bottom of the pile of what matters to Australian voters, Vote Compass data suggests.

  Topics: federal-elections, industrial-relations, federal-parliament, federal-government, australia

• Sorry Bill and Malcolm, Waleed's got the Google gold

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 11, 2016 12:04:05 | Updated May 11, 2016 16:37:56

  On Sunday night, Waleed Aly won the Gold Logie — the same day the federal election was called. What got more attention?

  Topics: federal-elections, federal-election, federal-government, federal-parliament, turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten, australia

• Suddenly Australians want to know more about Bill Shorten

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 09, 2016 16:59:51 | Updated May 09, 2016 17:12:15

  Bill Shorten has finally arrived — well, at least according to Google Trends data that shows more Australians are searching for the Labor Party leader.

  Topics: federal-election, government-and-politics, federal-elections, federal-government

• Budget cheat sheet: What you need to know

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 03, 2016 20:34:24 | Updated May 04, 2016 08:54:18

  11 key questions you need answered to understand Treasurer Scott Morrison's first budget.

  Topics: budget, federal-government, australia

• World's hardest budget quiz

  By Clare Blumer , Paul Donoughue , Lucy Fahey , Ben Spraggon , Colin Gourlay and Matt Liddy

  Posted May 03, 2016 08:56:24 | Updated May 03, 2016 09:10:33

  If Australia's total budget spending were $100, how would it be spent? Test your knowledge.

  Topics: budget, federal-government, australia

• Police handle 5,000 domestic violence matters a week, up 7 per cent

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted April 22, 2016 06:11:47

  Australian police are dealing with 5,000 domestic and family violence matters a week. That's one every two minutes, or 264,028 per year - a rise of 7 per cent, according to data collected by the ABC.

  Topics: domestic-violence, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, australia

• 6 things you probably didn't know about credit cards

  By Lucy Fahey , Stephen Letts and Clare Blumer

  Posted December 16, 2015 16:06:21 | Updated December 16, 2015 18:44:16

  With just eight shopping days until Christmas, take a look at some surprising hard truths about credit card debt in Australia.

  Topics: banking, australia

• Bishop revelations have 'ripped scabs off' Liberal wounds

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  By Sabra Lane, Julia Holman and Clare Blumer

  Posted November 12, 2015 17:29:16 | Updated November 13, 2015 00:58:46

  Revelations that Julie Bishop's chief of staff attended a key meeting of Turnbull backers the night before the leadership coup that brought down Tony Abbott has shaken trust within the Liberal Party, Cory Bernardi tells 7.30.

  Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, bishop-julie, abbott-tony, australia

• What worries Aussie kids? We asked 20,000 of them

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted October 05, 2015 09:35:26 | Updated October 07, 2015 12:04:17

  Parents spend a lot of time worrying about their children's future but do they know their children are worrying too?

  Topics: mental-health, children, happiness, australia

• Domestic violence: How do courts decide who needs protection?

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted June 03, 2015 13:03:19 | Updated June 05, 2015 07:42:20

  The ABC is invited into a usually closed domestic violence court, and meets a magistrate charged with deciding who needs protection.

  Topics: domestic-violence, courts-and-trials, brisbane-4000

• 'It's the majority of your shift': How police handle domestic violence

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted June 02, 2015 10:39:25 | Updated June 03, 2015 13:29:28

  Australian police handle one domestic violence matter every two minutes. How do they negotiate these intimate, complex and often dangerous situations?

  Topics: domestic-violence, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, indooroopilly-4068, logan-central-4114

• Australian police deal with a domestic violence matter every two minutes

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 29, 2015 12:08:40 | Updated June 05, 2015 05:57:55

  Australian police deal with an estimated 657 domestic violence matters on average every day of the year. That's one every two minutes.

  Topics: domestic-violence, australia

• Budget cheat sheet: 11 key questions answered

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted May 12, 2015 20:15:26 | Updated August 19, 2015 09:28:38

  11 key questions you need answered to understand Treasurer Joe Hockey's second budget.

  Topics: budget, federal-government, australia

• What makes an Aussie, Aussie? Aussies asked

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted April 29, 2015 00:12:13 | Updated April 29, 2015 13:10:05

  Speaking English is more central to Australians' national identity than whether someone was born here, an Australian National University poll finds.

  Topics: government-and-politics, social-policy, community-and-society, australia

• How do disadvantaged Australians get legal help?

  By Clare Blumer

  Posted April 01, 2015 10:48:44 | Updated April 02, 2015 16:06:04

  Lawyers say there is a national crisis in legal assistance. Go inside the world of Australia's community legal centres to find out who they help and how they operate.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, family-law, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000

• GST quiz: You'll 'never, ever' get 100 per cent

  By Matt Liddy and Clare Blumer

  Posted March 30, 2015 15:27:23 | Updated March 30, 2015 15:45:04

  Take our GST quiz: here's hoping you can get more than 10 per cent of the answers correct.

  Topics: tax, federal-government, australia

• Quiz: Are you an April Fool?

  By Clare Blumer and Matt Liddy

  Posted March 30, 2015 15:27:23 | Updated April 02, 2015 09:39:28

  Each headline is either the click-bait for an April Fool or a headline for a real story. Can you tell which is which?

  Topics: human-interest, offbeat, australia

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