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Catalans and Kurds have a long battle ahead for true independence

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imagePeople raise hands during a protest as Catalan regional police officers stand guard outside the National Police station in Barcelona.Reuters/Yves Herman

Secession movements come not in ones but twos, it seems. In the space of a week, two regions in which national groups have chafed at central government diktat have voted overwhelmingly for...

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As Spain represses Catalonia's show of independence, the rest of Europe watches on nervously

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
imageReuters/Yves Herman

On Sunday, more than 2 million Catalans voted in a referendum on the question:

Should Catalonia become an independent state?

The vote was a milestone in the century-long struggle for self-determination in Catalonia, a region in northeast Spain. The claim for independence, though, was again met with opposition by the Spanish...

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Stuck in traffic: we need a smarter approach to congestion than building more roads

  • Written by: Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute

The equation doesn’t look pretty. Traffic congestion costs us billions of dollars each year – so we are told – and population growth is not letting up. When road rage meets large economic costs, it’s little wonder our politicians are desperate to do something.

The trouble is, too often that “something” is a great...

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Sharing the parenting duties could be key to marital bliss: study

  • Written by: Leah Ruppanner, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne
imageMothers are expected to be fully available to the demands and whims of children around the clock.shutterstock

The quality of women’s relationships with their partner is diminished if they view their parenting division as unfair or want to spend more time working, our new study of employed parents in Canada has found.

Emerging research shows...

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  10. Decoration or distraction: the aesthetics of classrooms matter, but learning matters more
  11. Shinzo Abe gambles on sending Japan to a snap election – but it may yet backfire
  12. If Australia says 'yes', churches are still free to say 'no' to marrying same-sex couples
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  25. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's not-so-new message on energy security
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