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If High Court decides against ministers with dual citizenship, could their decisions in office be challenged?

  • Written by: Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
imageIt'd be better for ministers like Barnaby Joyce to have any potentially contentious decisions made by an acting minister until their citizenship issues are resolved.AAP/Mick Tsikas

What would happen if the High Court found that ministers Barnaby Joyce, Fiona Nash and Matthew Canavan had not been validly elected at the last federal election in July...

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Controlled experiments won't tell us which Indigenous health programs are working

  • Written by: Tim Carey, Professor, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University
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Described as “one of the simplest, most powerful and revolutionary tools of research”, the randomised controlled trial (RCT) has yielded a great deal of important information in the health sciences. It is usually held up as the “gold standard” for gathering medical evidence.

The RCT can tell us which procedure or treatment...

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Barcelona attack: a long war against Islamic terrorism is our reality

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageAt least 16 people have died, and scores more have been injured, in a terror attack on Barcelona's Las Ramblas strip.Reuters

Barcelona 2017, London 2017, Berlin 2016, Nice 2016.

In all of these cases the weapon of choice was a vehicle, driven at speed, into crowds innocently going about their daily business. Barcelona is just the latest in a series...

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For sniffing out crime and missing persons, science backs blood-detection dogs

  • Written by: LaTara Rust, PhD candidate, University of Technology Sydney
imageDogs can reliably sniff out human blood, even after two years of environmental degradation. Jason Korbol/shutterstock

It’s difficult to contemplate the tragedy of losing a loved one and never knowing what happened to them.

Every year, an estimated 38,000 people go missing in Australia. While almost 95% of these individuals are found...

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  2. Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero
  3. Lessons from Adelaide in how a smart city can work to benefit everyone
  4. Walking the fine line between healthy weight advice and fat shaming
  5. Vital Signs: RBA rates decision stuck between jobs growth and household debt
  6. Noise from offshore oil and gas surveys can affect whales up to 3km away
  7. Grattan on Friday: Malcolm Turnbull's government has finally defied fiction
  8. New shock rocks government: Nationals' deputy Fiona Nash a dual British citizen
  9. Unrepentant Hanson hopes burqa stunt will create debate
  10. Father and son: Saturn and Jupiter in the northern sky
  11. Speaking with: Nicole Gurran on Airbnb and its impact on cities
  12. What businesses can do to stamp out slavery in their supply chains
  13. We all need to forget, even robots
  14. From Charlottesville to Nazi Germany, sometimes monuments have to fall
  15. Of renewables, Robocops and risky business
  16. High Court challenge to offshore immigration detention power fails
  17. Five commonly over-diagnosed conditions and what we can do about them
  18. Mythbusting Ancient Rome -- did all roads actually lead there?
  19. Grooming the globe: denying fairness, complexity and humanity
  20. Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
  21. When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect
  22. Artificial vision: what people with bionic eyes see
  23. Australia emits mercury at double the global average
  24. When artists get involved in research, science benefits
  25. A new approach to culture
  26. Health Check: do joint and muscle aches get worse in the cold?
  27. The Buy Queensland strategy breaks international trade deals
  28. Is The Bachelor anti-feminist, or is conventional heterosexual romance the real problem?
  29. Melbourne shows up Sydney in funding the most disadvantaged suburbs
  30. Bored reading science? Let's change how scientists write
  31. Curious Kids: Why don't the planets closest to the Sun melt or burn up?
  32. To the High Court we go: six MPs under clouds in decisions that could undermine the government
  33. Here's how many people get infections in Australian hospitals every year
  34. The hollow promise of construction-led jobs and growth
  35. For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research
  36. Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
  37. Climate change is a financial risk, according to a lawsuit against the CBA
  38. ABC targeted in government deal with Pauline Hanson
  39. No, it wasn't a conspiracy that caused Barnaby's problem – it was himself
  40. Cyberspace aggression adds to North Korea's threat to global security
  41. A fragmented streaming video market is good for everyone but the consumer
  42. No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems
  43. On brand: how Australia's apartment frenzy echoes the 1870s cattle boom
  44. Royal commission provides a vital blueprint for justice for sex abuse victims – now it's time to act
  45. Book review: The New Puberty
  46. What the baby bonus boost looks like across ten years
  47. What Malcolm Turnbull might have learned from Alfred Deakin
  48. What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  49. The inequality you can't change that lasts a lifetime
  50. The truth about inconvenient truths: 'big issue' documentaries don't always change our behaviour

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