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Australia's hidden history of slavery: the government divides to conquer

  • Written by: (Waskam) Emelda Davis, Australian South Sea Islanders – Chair, University of Technology Sydney
imageSouth Sea Islanders working in a Townsville cane field in 1907.CityLibraries Townsville/flickr, CC BY-SA

This article is the fourth in the Black Lives Matter Everywhere series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and the Sydney Peace Foundation. To mark the awarding of the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize to the Black...

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Women can be psychopaths too, in ways more subtle but just as dangerous

  • Written by: Xanthe Mallett, Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle
imageBehavioural differences in female psychopaths could cause them to slip under society’s radar.from shutterstock.com

Hear the word psychopath and most of us think of violent, dominant men. There are lots of male psychopathic monsters from movies to illustrate this point. Think Alex in A Clockwork Orange, or Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

But...

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A Tale of Performance Testing

  • Written by: Josh Bassett, Data Platform Technical Lead, The Conversation

At The Conversation we’ve recently been working hard at migrating one of our web applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The exact architecture we’re running on AWS is a whole blog post in itself, but suffice it to say that it is quite different to our current architecture, which runs everything on a bare-metal host.

Testing with...

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Three reasons why the decisions of Joyce and Nash may be difficult to challenge

  • Written by: Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
imageCan decisions made by former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce while he was invalidly in parliament be challenged?AAP/Mick Tsikas

Now that Barnaby Joyce, Fiona Nash and three other senators have been declared invalidly elected, questions are being asked about whether close parliamentary votes still stand and decisions made by the disqualified...

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  4. Revisiting the Reformation: how passions sparked a religious revolution 500 years ago
  5. Palliative care for children often involves treating the whole family
  6. Higher education cuts will be felt in the classroom, not the lab
  7. Galapagos species are threatened by the very tourists who flock to see them
  8. What should governments be doing about the rise of Artificial Intelligence?
  9. The Nationals will be battling to protect territory and clout amid Coalition angst
  10. Politics podcast: Kevin Rudd on avoiding Donald Trump
  11. Manus detention centre closure sparks safety fears for refugees
  12. Response from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (NSW) for a FactCheck Q A on gun buybacks and gun deaths
  13. FactCheck Q A: did government gun buybacks reduce the number of gun deaths in Australia?
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  15. Geostorm: the latest climate action blockbuster (that you shouldn't watch)
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  17. The ethics of human robots: Sam Jinks brings an artist's perspective to the discourse
  18. Why the government was wrong to reject an Indigenous 'Voice to Parliament'
  19. George Brandis suggests Joyce and Nash didn't really make their ministerial decisions
  20. The Conversation’s 2017 Yearbook - Articles from Australia's top thinkers
  21. What is palliative care? A patient's journey through the system
  22. History says department stores will struggle in the future
  23. Why #metoo is an impoverished form of feminist activism, unlikely to spark social change
  24. How should Australia respond to China's influence in our universities?
  25. Freeing up the huge areas set aside for parking can transform our cities
  26. Buying fresh potatoes and carrots all year round is destroying Australia's soil
  27. Why we're building a climate change game for 12-year-olds
  28. Federal Coalition will be watching the Queensland election anxiously
  29. Palaszczuk must grapple with One Nation, and history, in unpredictable Queensland election
  30. Labor should head left to win 25 November Qld election
  31. Joyce will be safe in New England but the High Court disrupts the government
  32. High Court rules Joyce and Roberts ineligible. SSM plebiscite turnout high
  33. The High Court sticks to the letter of the law on the 'citizenship seven'
  34. Not just available, but also useful: we must keep pushing to improve open access to research
  35. High Court knocks Barnaby Joyce out in dual citizenship case as byelection looms in New England
  36. Finally, unproven stem cell clinic practices might be curtailed
  37. Xi Jinping unveils China’s new leadership team
  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on calls for Michaelia Cash's resignation
  39. Politics podcast: Energy Security Board chair Kerry Schott on a national energy plan
  40. Don't use technology as a bargaining chip with your kids
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  44. The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility
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