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The future of plastics: reusing the bad and encouraging the good

  • Written by: Kim Pickering, Professor of materials science and engineering, University of Waikato
imagePlastic pollution: discarded plastic bags are a hazard to marine life.Richard Whitcombe/Shutterstock, CC BY-ND

Plastics have got themselves a bad name, mainly for two reasons: most are made from petroleum and they end up as litter in the environment.

However, both of these are quite avoidable. An increased focus on bio-derived and degradable...

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Del Kathryn Barton explores powerful female sexuality but reproduces the male gaze

  • Written by: Anita Pisch, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University
imageInstallation view of Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 17 November 2017 – 12 March 2018. Photo: Tom Ross © Tom Ross

Powerful female sexuality is the essence of womanhood as imagined by Del Kathryn Barton in The Highway is a Disco exhibition at the NGV Australia. Perhaps best known for her...

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Explainer: how is the price of medicine decided in Australia?

  • Written by: Rosalie Viney, Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney
imageThe cost governments are willing to pay drug companies for medicines depends on the outcome the drug will provide. from www.shutterstock.com

Every few months there are news stories about expensive medicines becoming affordable for Australian patients. Just as often, there are stories about medicines that aren’t approved for government...

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Jelena Dokic's story of abuse shows links between elite sport and child labour

  • Written by: Michael Burke, Researcher, Institute for Sport, Exercise and Active Living and Senior Lecturer, College of Sport and Exercise Science, Victoria University

It’s impossible to read Jelena Dokic’s and other sport stars’ stories of physical, emotional and verbal abuse suffered at the hands of their parents or coaches without being horrified.

It’s also easy to blame controlling sport parents like Dokic’s father, but by doing this we’re ignoring a much larger problem....

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  1. Universities need to rethink policy on student-staff relationships
  2. Why New Zealand can't outsource employment policy to its central bank
  3. Contradictory polls in Queensland, while the Greens storm Northcote in Victoria
  4. Most young Australians can’t identify fake news online
  5. Delhi suffers second smog crisis in 12 months, as wake-up calls go unheeded
  6. Four reasons the Australian government should consider litigation against tobacco companies
  7. When the US locked up white Australian immigrants like Australia does to asylum seekers
  8. Three charts on: how emotional and economic abuse go hand-in-hand
  9. Can a tech company build a city? Ask Google
  10. Five reasons India, China and other nations plan to travel to the Moon
  11. Why the fashion industry keeps failing to fix labour exploitation
  12. Going overboard on religious protections could come back to bite in multicultural Australia
  13. Bennelong polls: Galaxy 50-50, ReachTEL 53-47 to Liberal
  14. It's too soon to celebrate a narrowing gender wage gap
  15. Don Dale royal commission demands sweeping change – is there political will to make it happen?
  16. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the same-sex marriage ballot result
  17. Plague outbreak: where does it still exist and could it spread?
  18. Step up Australia, we need a traffic cop in space
  19. From Lord of the Rings to Crocodile Dundee – franchising Australian culture?
  20. Three charts on: what's going on at Manus Island
  21. It's unrealistic to expect MPs to follow the view of the people who elected them every time
  22. A Robert De Niro Theory of Post-Truth: ‘Are you talking to me?’
  23. Australia is a global top-ten deforester – and Queensland is leading the way
  24. The dual citizenship saga shows our Constitution must be changed, and now
  25. Friday essay: when did Australia’s human history begin?
  26. How 'liar loans' undermine sound lending practices
  27. Vital Signs: Australia's mining boom transition is on shaky ground
  28. What prospective parents need to know about gene tests such as 'prepair'
  29. This is how to create social hubs that make 20-minute neighbourhoods work
  30. NAPLAN has done little to improve student outcomes
  31. Grattan on Friday: In 2017 Australia has delivered to LGBTI community but failed its First Peoples
  32. When masturbation on screen isn't maligned
  33. Bee aware, but not alarmed: here's what you need to know about honey bee stings
  34. How the same-sex marriage survey got us talking about – and trusting – data
  35. FactCheck: has Queensland Labor created 'more than four times' as many jobs as the LNP?
  36. Wonder Woman and Aquaman are the only charismatic leads in Justice League
  37. War and democracy – who decides?
  38. The blockchain does not eliminate the need for trust
  39. Why there should be no room in the law for celebrants to discriminate on same-sex marriage
  40. The public should be 'shocked, dismayed and disgusted' at the major banks
  41. Same-sex marriage results crush the idea that Australian voters crave conservatism
  42. The race to save up to 50 shipwrecks from looters in Southeast Asia
  43. The NSW assisted dying bill isn't as robust as Victoria's model
  44. We've found an exo-planet with an extraordinarily eccentric orbit
  45. Don't give up on Pacific Island nations yet
  46. Natural hazard risk: is it just going to get worse or can we do something about it?
  47. NAPLAN only tells part of the story of student achievement
  48. Increasing wages would make the Australian economy safer
  49. Politics podcast: the Greens' Jordon Steele-John on being an 'accidental' senator
  50. High Court strikes again – knocking out replacement senator Hollie Hughes

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