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Politics podcast: Gareth Evans on being an Incorrigible Optimist

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

This podcast is a recording of an In Conversation with Gareth Evans, former foreign minister and currently chancellor of the Australian National University, which took place on October 12 in Canberra at a dinner of university chancellors from around Australia.

The occasion was hosted by University of Canberra Chancellor Tom Calma in collaboration...

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Banded stilts fly hundreds of kilometres to lay eggs that are over 50% of their body mass

  • Written by Reece Pedler, PhD student, Deakin University
imageBanded stilts gather to nest and raise chicks at desert salt lakes. Tom Putt, Author provided

The hot, dry Australian desert may not come to mind as an ideal location for waterbirds to breed, but some species wait years for the opportunity to do just that.

New research has shed light on one of Australia’s most enigmatic birds, the banded...

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X, Y and the genetics of sex: Professor Jenny Graves awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Science 2017

  • Written by Sarah Keenihan, Section Editor, Science and Technology, The Conversation
imageJenny Graves published her first paper on sex genes in 1967. Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science/WildBear

The 2017 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science has been awarded to Professor Jenny Graves of La Trobe University, in recognition of her 50 year, ongoing career in genomic and epigenetic research.

Professor Jenny Graves works on animal...

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Was agriculture the greatest blunder in human history?

  • Written by Darren Curnoe, Associate Professor and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, UNSW
imageRice famers near Siem Reap, Cambodia.Darren Curnoe, Author provided

Twelve thousand years ago everybody lived as hunters and gatherers. But by 5,000 years ago most people lived as farmers.

This brief period marked the biggest shift ever in human history with unparalleled changes in diet, culture and technology, as well as social, economic and...

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  1. Why the new banking laws won’t be the slam dunk the government is expecting
  2. Banking's new BEAR is a teddy bear not a grizzly
  3. Bob Brown wins his case, but High Court leaves the door open to laws targeting protesters
  4. The government's energy policy hinges on some tricky wordplay about coal's role
  5. Insurance changes not enough to drive real mental health reform
  6. Federal government unveils 'National Energy Guarantee' – experts react
  7. Ethics by numbers: how to build machine learning that cares
  8. Curious Kids: Why do so many animals seem to have pink ears, when their bodies are all different colours?
  9. Curious Kids: Where did the first person come from?
  10. Sex versus death: why marriage equality provokes more heated debate than assisted dying
  11. Some suburbs are being short-changed on services and liveability – which ones and what's the solution?
  12. Here's what's actually driving up health insurance premiums (hint: it's not young people dropping off)
  13. Share houses and women's liberation: a forgotten history
  14. Why craft beer is going corporate
  15. Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull's ratings slump. Qld Newspoll 52-48 to Labor
  16. Household savings figures in Turnbull's energy policy look rubbery
  17. Let’s get this straight, habitat loss is the number-one threat to Australia's species
  18. Infographic: the National Energy Guarantee at a glance
  19. Strengthened Xi and Abe could help moves toward peace in our troubled region
  20. How the National Energy Guarantee could work better than a clean energy target
  21. Keeping mature-age workers on the job
  22. Come hide with us – bean counters raid big law firms
  23. Do computers make better bank managers than humans?
  24. Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images is an unmissable show
  25. How childhood trauma changes our hormones, and thus our mental health, into adulthood
  26. Wi-Fi can be KRACK-ed. Here's what to do next
  27. Australia's Human Rights Council election comes with a challenge to improve its domestic record
  28. Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
  29. Why the end of auto manufacturing won't be as apocalyptic as previous mass layoffs
  30. In Trump we trust: why continual disasters fail to shake the president's loyalists
  31. We all have to die of something, so why bother being healthy?
  32. Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content
  33. City-by-city analysis shows our capitals aren’t liveable for many residents
  34. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances
  35. At last, we've found gravitational waves from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  36. After the alert: radio 'eyes' hunt the source of the gravitational waves
  37. We beat a cyber attack to see the 'kilonova' glow from a collapsing pair of neutron stars
  38. Subsidies for renewables will go under Malcolm Turnbull's power plan
  39. Middle-income earners probably won't be paying as much tax as the government expects
  40. Good data/bad data: ethically designed databases can help police without reducing privacy
  41. Is it too cheap to visit the 'priceless' Great Barrier Reef?
  42. We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
  43. Taking the pulse of a city: Melbourne's Vital Signs
  44. Health Check: why are some people afraid of heights?
  45. Here’s how Australia can act to target racist behaviour online
  46. Filters: a cigarette engineering hoax that harms both smokers and the environment
  47. How marketers use algorithms to (try to) read your mind
  48. Expect a shakeup of China’s military elite at the 19th Party Congress
  49. How Melbourne's west was greened
  50. Noble horses and 'black monsters': the politics of colonial compassion

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