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The road to same-sex marriage support has been long – and the fight isn't over yet

  • Written by Scott McKinnon, Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wollongong

Today’s same-sex marriage survey results represent a moment of extraordinary change. It is well within living memory that homosexuality in Australia was considered a crime, a sickness and a threat to the nation itself. The final Australian state to decriminalise male homosexuality was Tasmania, as recently as 1997. Plenty of gay men still...

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What the numbers say (and don't say) in the same-sex marriage survey

  • Written by Scott Sisson, Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW

More than 12 million people took part in the same-sex marriage postal survey with the results showing that 61.6% voted Yes and 38.4% voted No. But not everyone voted, so what can we draw from the results?

Based on the figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which conducted the voluntary survey, the result is seen as a win for the...

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No, you shouldn't eat your placenta, here's why

  • Written by Bryony McNeill, Lecturer in Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Deakin University
imageHumans and underwater animals are the only mammals that don't eat their placentas.from www.shutterstock.com

In almost all mammals, the placenta - the organ that develops in pregnancy to provide oxygen and nutrients to the baby and remove waste products - is eaten by the mother immediately after giving birth. Humans and aquatic mammals are the only...

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Full response from One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson for a FactCheck on fathers dying by suicide

  • Written by Lucinda Beaman, FactCheck Editor

In relation to this FactCheck, The Conversation requested sources and comment from One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson and one of the party’s Queensland election candidates, Tracey Bell-Henselin, regarding their statements about fathers dying by suicide as a result of family breakdown.

In response, a spokesperson for Dickson provided...

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  1. The Conversation will no longer be publishing columns
  2. Same-sex marriage result delivers much-needed good news for embattled Turnbull
  3. Same-sex marriage survey by the stats: a resounding 'yes' but western Sydney leads 'no' vote
  4. The marriage equality survey is won, but the battle against discrimination continues
  5. Australians vote overwhelmingly to legalise same-sex marriage
  6. Turnbull is on the winning side on marriage equality, but his troubles are far from over
  7. How to talk to your kids about today's same-sex marriage postal survey result
  8. As Australians say 'yes' to marriage equality, the legal stoush over human rights takes centre stage
  9. How the 'yes' vote will impact workers and HR
  10. Talking Ordinary: from Simic to Farrell
  11. Adani aside, North Queensland voters care about crime and cost of living
  12. QLD Election FactCheck: are 'up to 21 fathers' dying by suicide every week?
  13. Curious Kids: Do most volcanologists die from getting too close to volcanoes?
  14. Mungo Man returns home: there is still much he can teach us about ancient Australia
  15. Time for a global agreement on minerals to fuel the clean energy transition
  16. Three charts on: brain cancer in Australia
  17. Rembrandt, capitalism and great art: the Dutch golden age comes to Sydney
  18. A city that forgets about human connections has lost its way
  19. Shorten goes for broke in byelection with mega stakes for Turnbull
  20. Four reasons Victorian MPs say 'no' to assisted dying, and why they're misleading
  21. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is back: experts respond
  22. Newspoll 55-45 to Labor as Turnbull's better PM lead falls to 2. Qld and Alabama polling
  23. As China flexes its muscles in Antarctica, science is the best diplomatic tool on the frozen continent
  24. Book review: Curing Affluenza takes aim at our all-consuming passions
  25. Australia's tenuous place in the new global economy
  26. Here’s looking at: Pipilotti Rist, Ever Is Over All
  27. What is the best way to respond to the Rohingya crisis: boycott, sanctions or engagement?
  28. Shorten recruits Keneally for Bennelong, as citizenship crisis claims Lambie
  29. Teaching kids 21st century skills early will help prepare them for their future
  30. High energy costs make vulnerable households reluctant to use air conditioning: study
  31. Honey Birdette and the changing attitudes to sex in advertising
  32. Living rooms for rent by the minute outsource the whole idea of home
  33. Demand for people skills is growing faster than demand for STEM skills
  34. Four factors driving the price of Bitcoin
  35. How Victoria's family violence system fails some victims – by assuming they're perpetrators
  36. From 'Leb bread' to 'Leb Kelly', finally we're seeing more Middle Eastern faces on TV
  37. Did they mean to do that? Accident and intent in an octopuses' garden
  38. Violence between residents in nursing homes can lead to death and demands our attention
  39. Alexander Dugin, Eurasianism, and the American election
  40. At APEC, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping revealed different ideas of Asia's economic future
  41. Fossil fuel emissions hit record high after unexpected growth: Global Carbon Budget 2017
  42. Twitter analysis shows Queensland Labor has put Adani behind them
  43. Hanson loses replacement senator – before he is even sworn in
  44. What we can learn from the Warren Buffett of the web
  45. With One Nation on the march, a change to compulsory voting might backfire on Labor
  46. Simon Leys, navigator between worlds – a unique Australian intellectual
  47. Cups, lingerie and home-made pads: what are the reusable options for managing your period?
  48. Cormann and Shorten reach deal on citizenship disclosure
  49. Hemp can now be sold as a food in Australia (and it's super good for you)
  50. The gender pay gap is wider in the arts than in other industries

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