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Turnbull proposes tougher security measures

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

Malcolm Turnbull this week is pushing for a further toughening of national security laws, including to allow police to hold suspects for longer without charges.

Turnbull and state and territory leaders on Thursday will hold a special Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on measures to counter terrorism.

The Commonwealth is proposing...

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Nearly six-in-ten people already voted in marriage ballot: ABS

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageAll the public polls so far suggest a victory for the Yes side.Regi Varghese/AAP

The same-sex marriage postal ballot is headed for a very high return rate, with an estimated 57.5% survey forms – 9.2 million – returned by last Friday.

The return rate is defying some early predictions that a postal vote would see many people not bothering...

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Magpies can form friendships with people – here's how

  • Written by: Gisela Kaplan, Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of New England

Can one form a friendship with a magpie? –even when adult males are protecting their nests during the swooping season? The short answer is:“ Yes, one can” - although science has just begun to provide feasible explanations for friendship in animals, let alone for cross-species friendships between humans and wild birds.

Ravens and...

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People diagnosed with the same mental illness can be quite different, and research must address this

  • Written by: Tamsyn Van Rheenen, NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
imageBradley Cooper's character in Silver Lining's playbook had bipolar disorder.The Weinstein Company via IMDb

It’s commonly accepted that symptoms in psychiatric conditions like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia present differently between different people. That is, one person with a given diagnosis can be entirely different, symptomatically...

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  4. Straight from the athlete's mouth: Australia's sports media landscape could be set for a shake-up
  5. Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence
  6. As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously
  7. Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads
  8. Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study
  9. Whose best friend? How gender and stereotypes can shape our relationship with dogs
  10. Plenty of fish in the sea? Not necessarily, as history shows
  11. How we can overcome the lack of treatment options for rare cancers
  12. How to work out which coral reefs will bleach, and which might be spared
  13. How can we prevent financial abuse of the elderly?
  14. The Great Australian Plays: Williamson, Hibberd and the better angels of our country's nature
  15. Mercury from the northern hemisphere is ending up in Australia
  16. After Charlottesville, how we define tolerance becomes a key question
  17. Drug resistance: how we keep track of whether antibiotics are being used responsibly
  18. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  19. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  20. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
  21. Why we should pay people to stop smoking
  22. From feral camels to 'cocaine hippos', large animals are rewilding the world
  23. I've always wondered: Why don't hippos get cholera?
  24. What happened to our promised leisure time? And will we find it in the smart city?
  25. Guide to the Classics: Dante’s Divine Comedy
  26. Three charts on: the great Australian wealth gap
  27. Sassy, zany and easy-going: the abundance of fun in digital help
  28. FactCheck: will Safe Schools be 'mandatory' if same-sex marriage is legalised?
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  30. Revealed today, Elon Musk's new space vision took us from Earth to Mars, and back home again
  31. Australian regulators have finally made a move on initial coin offerings
  32. Australia's new national space agency will help students reach for the stars in STEM
  33. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
  34. 'No one is steering the ship': five lessons learned (or not) since the SA blackout
  35. What Twitter can learn from that time Coca Cola changed its formula
  36. The pathologies of populism
  37. The beautiful social media game: A-League winners and losers on Twitter
  38. Australia needs new insolvency laws to encourage small businesses
  39. Debris from the 2011 tsunami carried hundreds of species across the Pacific Ocean
  40. Googling for a new dentist or therapist? Here's how to look past the glowing testimonials
  41. Revenge porn laws may not be capturing the right people
  42. Friday essay: Dr Joe Gumbula, the ancestral chorus, and how we value Indigenous knowledges
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  45. Grattan on Friday: Careful, Mr Dutton, Donald Trump might hear you
  46. Research Check: will binge-watching TV increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease and diabetes?
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