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Speaking with: Nancy Pachana on planning for an active and engaged ageing population

  • Written by: William Isdale, Research Assistant, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
imageThe Danish Choir “Gangstativerne”, singing at a conference launching the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations in 2012.DG EMPL/ flickr, CC BY-NC

Due to advances in medicine, hygiene and nutrition we are now living longer than ever before. In our region, the percentage of people over the age of 60 doubled in...

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Explainer: how do Australia's proposed citizenship laws compare internationally?

  • Written by: Sangeetha Pillai, Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW

Debate will resume in parliament this week over the government’s proposed changes to Australian citizenship laws. Among the reforms is a requirement for migrants to be permanent residents of Australia for four years before applying for citizenship - an increase from the current requirement of one year.

In a doorstop interview in June,...

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Grumbles over governance threaten to disrupt football's growth in Australia

  • Written by: Roy Hay, Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
imageThe FFA, headed by Steven Lowy, is currently beset by an array of challenges to its control of football in Australia.AAP/Lukas Coch

Football in Australia should be on a high. The Matildas achieved stunning success at the Tournament of Nations, the Socceroos are about to embark on the final stage of qualifying for their fourth World Cup in...

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'Gene drives' could wipe out whole populations of pests in one fell swoop

  • Written by: Thomas Prowse, Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Adelaide
imageGene drives aim to deliberately spread bad genes when invasive species such as mice reproduce.Colin Robert Varndell/shutterstock.com

What if there was a humane, targeted way to wipe out alien pest species such as mice, rats and rabbits, by turning their own genes on themselves so they can no longer reproduce and their population collapses?

Gene...

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  1. As local networks retreat, Netflix is filling the gap in teen TV
  2. The NBN needs subsidies if we all want to benefit from it
  3. Radical feminists' objection to sex work is profoundly un-feminist
  4. Curious Kids: How do snakes make an 'sssssss' sound with their tongue poking out?
  5. What a new map of the universe tells us about dark matter
  6. A closer look at jobless youth in Western Sydney points us to the solutions
  7. Biology is partly to blame for high rates of mental illness in women – the rest is social
  8. Nicotine in sports: high use but little evidence of effects on performance
  9. Marriage equality lobby and Labor must decide how to handle postal ballot
  10. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's ratings jump
  11. Banks can't fight online credit card fraud alone, and neither can you
  12. Explainer: with no free vote for now, where next for marriage equality?
  13. Health Check: in terms of exercise, is walking enough?
  14. 'Mainstream' is not a dirty word
  15. Conservatives prevail to hold back the tide on same-sex marriage
  16. Primary schools are losing more and more male teachers, so how can we retain them?
  17. Gender quotas can work but it depends on how employees feel about them
  18. Egalitarian or Edwardian? The rising wealth inequality in Australia
  19. This is how regional rail can help ease our big cities' commuter crush
  20. Top of the Lake: China Girl is defiant, adventurous TV
  21. Women have heart attacks too, but their symptoms are often dismissed as something else
  22. When dinosaurs walked the Earth they moved like modern birds
  23. Same-sex marriage reform heads for the snail mail
  24. Liberal partyroom slaps down same-sex marriage rebels
  25. Cartel case shows not all corporate misbehaviour goes unpunished
  26. This Girl Can('t)? Campaign simply reworks 'sex sells' approach
  27. Explainer: what is silicosis and why is this old lung disease making a comeback?
  28. The Conversation's submission to the Senate inquiry into the Future of Public Interest Journalism
  29. Technology drives the need to rethink sex work industry regulations
  30. Medicine's gender revolution: how women stopped being treated as 'small men'
  31. Man flu is real, but women get more autoimmune diseases and allergies
  32. Our healthcare records outlive us. It's time to decide what happens to the data once we're gone.
  33. Don't listen to the rich: inequality is bad for everyone
  34. A 20-minute city sounds good, but becoming one is a huge challenge
  35. Living blanket, water diviner, wild pet: a cultural history of the dingo
  36. Australia doesn't 'get' the environmental challenges faced by Pacific Islanders
  37. How a charter of rights could protect Australians' fundamental freedoms
  38. Liberals face crunch on marriage as Coalition behind in 17th consecutive Newspoll
  39. Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help
  40. Queensland Galaxy 51-49 to Labor, but Palaszczuk's ratings slump
  41. Allegations against the CBA show the need for a Royal Commission into the banks
  42. NAPLAN results show it isn’t the basics that are missing in Australian education
  43. Trump-Turnbull call: trading people like pawns undermines the goals of international co-operation
  44. The dangers of leaving home: UK WannaCry ransomware hero arrested in the US
  45. Bottom of the canal: Pfizer's billion-dollar tax ploy
  46. Turnbull's promise to Trump: 'You can count on me'
  47. Climate change to blame for Australia's July heat
  48. Transcript of Trump-Turnbull call shows just how hard it'll be to deal with the president
  49. Another attack on the Bureau, but top politicians have stopped listening to climate change denial
  50. Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking

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