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People, palm oil, pulp and planet: four perspectives on Indonesia's fire-stricken peatlands

  • Written by: Samantha Grover, Research Fellow, Soil Science, La Trobe University

Peat means different things to different people. To many Irish people, it means fuel. To the Scottish, it adds a smoky flavour to their whisky. Indonesia’s peatlands, meanwhile, are widely known as the home of orangutans, the palm oil industry, and the persistent fires that cause the infamous Southeast Asian haze.

Indonesians, and other...

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Grattan on Friday: Shorten's campaigning in postal ballot might help protect a vulnerable Turnbull

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageBill Shorten has promised an all-out effort to promote a yes vote, while continuing to attack the ballot.Lukas Coch/AAP

The risk of armed conflict between North Korea and the United States has moved a scary step closer in the last few days, with Donald Trump’s belligerent threat of “fire and fury” against Pyongyang and its...

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Climate change has changed the way I think about science. Here’s why

  • Written by: Sophie Lewis, Research fellow, Australian National University
imageScience is a human approach to understanding the world. Nitirak Rakitiworakun/shutterstock

I’ve wanted to be a scientist since I was five years old.

My idea of a scientist was someone in a lab, making hypotheses and testing theories. We often think of science only as a linear, objective process. This is also the way that science is presented...

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Using the ABS to conduct a same-sex marriage poll is legally shaky and lacks legitimacy

  • Written by: Paul Kildea, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law School; Director, Referendums Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW
imageFor the ABS, even the basic task of sending out ballot papers will not be straightforward.AAP/Alan Porritt

The Turnbull government’s decision to put the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) in charge of a voluntary postal plebiscite on same-sex marriage has left many scratching their heads. It was expected the Australian Electoral Commission...

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  1. New rules for retailers, but don’t sit there waiting for your electricity bill to go down
  2. 'Fire and fury': Trump’s impulsive rhetoric on North Korea threatens the region
  3. Banking with a chatbot: a battle between convenience and security
  4. Fee increases still on the table after Senate committee reports on higher education changes
  5. How safe are heartburn medications and who should use them?
  6. The off-topic Conversation #132
  7. ASEAN's mid-life crisis?
  8. Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago
  9. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations
  10. The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost
  11. Reward or punishment: finding the best match for your child's personality
  12. What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently
  13. No harm done? 'Sexual entertainment districts' make the city a more threatening place for women
  14. Tony Abbott morphs same sex-marriage into a culture war issue
  15. Southeast Europe swelters through another heatwave with a human fingerprint
  16. Prostate cancer testing: has the bubble burst?
  17. How we can reduce dependency on opioid painkillers in rural and regional Australia
  18. How (and why) we lock accounts at The Conversation
  19. Some workers 'cyberloaf' if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative
  20. Hanson set to refer Malcolm Roberts to the High Court over dual citizenship questions
  21. Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population
  22. Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?
  23. Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia
  24. 'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop
  25. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  26. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  27. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  28. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
  29. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  30. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  31. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  32. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  33. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  34. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump
  35. Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you
  36. Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?
  37. Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?
  38. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  39. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  40. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  41. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  42. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  43. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  44. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  45. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  46. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  47. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  48. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  49. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  50. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach

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