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Why has BHP distanced itself from legal threat to environment groups?

  • Written by: Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University

Australian environment groups this week found an unexpected supporter in BHP, the world’s largest mining company.

BHP has defended green groups’ right to receive tax-deductable donations, in the face of a concerted push from both the federal government and the Minerals Council of Australia.

Given the influential role of the environment...

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the never-ending citizenship crisis

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Michelle Grattan speaks with the University of Canberra’s Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.

They discuss Malcolm Turnbull haggling with Bill Shorten over a solution to the citizenship crisis, questions surrounding the eligibility of lower house Liberal MP John Alexander, the battle for the Senate presidency, and the Queensland...

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Why are rates of domestic violence in Australia still so high?

  • Written by: Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland
imageOne in six Australian women have experienced partner violence.Isaac Holmgren/Unsplash

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data released this week as part of the Personal Safety Study (PSS) reveals 16% of Australian women have experienced partner violence.

The 2016 PSS was conducted across Australia and surveyed around 21,000 people about their...

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Flowers, remembrance and the art of war

  • Written by: Ann Elias, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Sydney
imagePoppies at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.katatrix/shuttershock.com

Before 1914, flowers in everyday life spelt beauty, femininity and innocence; they were seen as part of women’s culture. But during the first world war, that changed. Men gathered posies of flowers on battlefields and dried them in honour of the dead, they turned to...

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  1. Brian Cox is a world record holding 'rockstar scientist'. Here's why
  2. UN slams Australia’s human rights record
  3. How the 'Warwick egg incident' of 1917 exemplified an Australian nation divided
  4. Some remote Australian communities have drinking water for only nine hours a day
  5. Why children need to be taught to think critically about Remembrance Day
  6. Friday essay: Mapplethorpe and me
  7. Vital Signs: business conditions are peachy, so why aren't businesses investing?
  8. Sharing economy sounds caring, but let's put it to the ethical city test
  9. Those noisy crested pigeons use their unique feathers to sound an alarm
  10. Can 'brown fat' really help with weight loss?
  11. Sharkie told by Turnbull she may have to go to High Court
  12. Grattan on Friday: Voters just want citizenship crisis fixed – but it isn't that easy
  13. Politics podcast: swinging into the Sunshine State's election
  14. Time for costly medicine monopolies to go from TPP trade talks
  15. We made great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancer
  16. Could we nationalise the superannuation system even if we wanted to?
  17. The ACCC investigation into the NBN will be useful. But it's too little, too late
  18. Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars?
  19. Kantian comedy: the philosophy of The Good Place
  20. Princes, power and purges: the Saudi royal family consolidates its rule
  21. Australian companies should cultivate local tech workers not play the 457 visa game
  22. Islands lost to the waves: how rising seas washed away part of Micronesia's 19th-century history
  23. If Queenslanders vote on economic issues the Labor government is looking good
  24. Stars that vary in brightness shine in the oral traditions of Aboriginal Australians
  25. As we remember the Russian revolution, The Death of Stalin reminds us of its brutal apogee
  26. As Socceroos face moment of truth, let's remember our football triumph of 1967
  27. Simplistic advice for teachers on how to teach won't work
  28. What causes SIDS? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  29. Movies and TV choose to tell us different stories about the cities of today
  30. Dems easily win Virginia and New Jersey governors. Left gains control of Tas upper house
  31. Turnbull and Shorten haggle over detail of citizenship disclosure system
  32. Australia might water down illegal logging laws – here's why it's a bad idea
  33. How the Paradise Papers reveal the tension between rock stars and the tax man
  34. Health Check: which sports supplements actually work?
  35. From selfie to infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s amazing technicoloured dreamscape
  36. It's time for a royal commission into banking regulation
  37. Closing Uluru to climbers is better for tourism in the long run
  38. You may be sick of worrying about online privacy, but 'surveillance apathy' is also a problem
  39. Three strategies to fight the tax avoidance revealed by the Paradise Papers
  40. Infections, complications and safety breaches: why patients need better data on how hospitals compare
  41. I've always wondered: do nuclear tests affect tectonic plates and cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions?
  42. Australians born overseas prefer the online world for their news
  43. Why Australia shouldn't fear a wave of trade protectionism
  44. Curious Kids: Why do tears come out of our eyes when we cry?
  45. Can you make a 10-year malt whisky in weeks? The chemistry says yes
  46. 'Australia has no culture': changing the mindset of the cringe
  47. How do we turn a drain into valued green space? First, ask the residents
  48. Stories of sex, stars and sharks amongst the best Australian science writing in 2017
  49. Sustainable shopping: how to rock white sneakers without eco-guilt
  50. In the 'fearless city', Barcelona residents take charge

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