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A once unthinkable result the far-right party, Alternative for Germany has had a resounding victory in a state election, coming within a hair’s breath of being the first ultra right party to govern since the Nazi era. Historian and journalist Katja Hoyer, says the party may have come very, very close to breaking Germany's fabled firewall. 

Australia's home construction system is broken.That the Bathla Group went bust building the affordable homes Australia needs most says a lot about the residential construction market, as it battles falling prices, surging costs and poor productivity. Michael Akkawi, chief executive of property developer Conquest says Australia needs a war-time like response to deliver the housing that's needed. 

Since the very first collection of clay tablets were stored together 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia….libraries have been a force for the democratisation of knowledge … but that unique access is increasingly under threat. Richard Ovenden the head librarian of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, says libraries are radically relevant in our modern world.