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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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  8. What should governments be doing about the rise of Artificial Intelligence?
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  12. Response from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (NSW) for a FactCheck Q A on gun buybacks and gun deaths
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  19. George Brandis suggests Joyce and Nash didn't really make their ministerial decisions
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on calls for Michaelia Cash's resignation
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  44. The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility
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