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A precarious geological bargain

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

The landscapes of the Xinjiang province of western China are very special.

It is here the ancient trade routes of the Silk Roads skirt the great mountains and deserts of central Asia, weaving a magic thread through a region that has played a special role in history.

Xinjiang is the home to the Uyghur, a place where the cycles of life and geology...

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It's certain – Australians off to the polls on July 2 for double dissolution

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Australians will go to a double-dissolution election on July 2 after the Senate voted 36-34 on Monday night to defeat the government’s legislation to resurrect the so-called cop-on-the-beat Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).

The government needed six of the eight non-Green crossbenchers but independents Jacqui Lambie,...

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A decent woman? The breastfeeding and visibility debate is nothing new

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageModern debates around breastfeeding would be eerily familiar to someone from the 18th or 19th century.The Fashionable Mamma, James Gillroy, 1796. The British Museum.

It’s a predictable tale of controversy in modern public space: a woman or group of women are welcomed to or excluded from a place because they are breastfeeding. The event makes...

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  1. Australia's carbon emissions and electricity demand are growing: here's why
  2. Australia still hasn't had the debate on why we even need new submarines
  3. Health Check: can people actually multitask?
  4. Boaty McBoatface poll shows how not to do community consultation
  5. Special purpose liquidator for Queensland Nickel will turn up the heat on Clive Palmer
  6. Labor moves into dead heat with Coalition
  7. Data access inquiry casts the net far too wide
  8. World split on how to regulate 'killer robots'
  9. The off-topic Conversation #89
  10. CommInsure proves the need for a banking royal commission
  11. Mind the gap in local and international aid workers' salaries
  12. FactCheck: does ASIC already have the powers of a royal commission and more?
  13. FactCheck Q A: does Australia have some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome in the world?
  14. Ideas for Australia: Improving democracy for workers is not easy but it must be done
  15. Ideas for Australia: Voters have a good choice of politicians, but need to overcome their mistrust of them
  16. US firms knew about global warming in 1968 – what about Australia?
  17. Reducing stress at work is a walk in the park
  18. Should women athletes earn the same as men? The science says they work as hard
  19. Vaccination objection rates aren't skyrocketing
  20. Too strong to deliver? Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership dilemma
  21. Does more money for schools improve educational outcomes?
  22. All of humanity should share in the space mining boom
  23. Ipsos poll: Turnbull takes hit, Coalition-Labor 50-50
  24. Australia's housing finance in seven charts
  25. Explainer: what are the ABCC and Registered Organisations bills?
  26. Consensus confirmed: over 90% of climate scientists believe we're causing global warming
  27. Controversial history of Road Safety Tribunal shows minimum pay was doomed from the start
  28. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Clive Palmer
  29. Travelling with Timor Leste
  30. How can Indonesia free the mentally ill from shackles once and for all?
  31. Comments fail on indigenous deaths in custody
  32. Australia's waterbirds are disappearing – but nuclear physics can help save them
  33. Crossing the river by feeling the stones: democracy's advance in China
  34. Mutant malaria parasites resistant to antimalarial Atovaquone cannot spread: new research
  35. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull sees even a difficult new Senate as an opportunity for a fresh start
  36. Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custody
  37. Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custody
  38. Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance
  39. Ideas for Australia: A six-point plan for getting climate policy back on track
  40. Ideas for Australia: Let's retire the idea that Australia 'depends' on digging up coal and other resources
  41. Friday essay: Dogs in Space, 30 years on – a once maligned film comes of age
  42. Thinking about getting the 2016 flu vaccine? Here's what you need to know
  43. Vital Signs: spending away Australia's Triple A?
  44. The world at your feet: how to build a career in foreign relations
  45. These sex-starved creatures scavenge new genes from other pondlife
  46. Delaying shutting power stations will bring big disruption later: Climate Institute research
  47. Allan Fels: 7Eleven franchisees 'waging campaign' to block workers' compo (audio)
  48. What we know and suspect about the causes of Parkinson's disease
  49. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a closed shop with a hopeless task
  50. Peabody's bankruptcy claim is a symbol of coal's end

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