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Australia's planned decryption law would weaken cybersecurity

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageThe ability of authorities to access encrypted messages must be balanced with the security risks.Ink Drop/Shutterstock

The Australian government plans to introduce new legislation forcing companies such as Google and Facebook to de-crypt messages in the name of fighting terrorism and other crimes. But the move will have serious implications for...

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Greens senator Scott Ludlam forced to quit because of dual citizenship

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageScott Ludlam has quit as a senator immediately.AAP/Lukas Coch

The Greens are in shock after their co-deputy leader, Scott Ludlam, discovered he is ineligible to sit in federal parliament because he has dual New Zealand citizenship.

Ludlam, 47, who entered the Senate for Western Australia in 2008 after being elected at the 2007 poll, said he had not...

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Why the ecocity needs to be a just city

  • Written by: Stephen Healy, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
imageWhy is it easier to imagine a green ecocity than a just city where everyone belongs?the yes man/flickr, CC BY

This is one of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 Ecocity World Summit in Melbourne.


Why is it easier to imagine an ecocity – full of lush green spaces and buildings, footpaths and bike lanes, outdoor goat yoga and dog...

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  1. Early images of the closest look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot
  2. Explainer: what is pre-pregnancy carrier screening and should potential parents consider it?
  3. The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it's time to move on
  4. Blaming migrants won't solve Western Sydney's growing pains
  5. A brief history of Al Gore's climate missions to Australia
  6. Got pre-diabetes? Here's five things to eat or avoid to prevent type 2 diabetes
  7. Memo to COAG: Australia is already awash with gas
  8. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Turnbull and the 'sensible centre'
  9. Business Briefing: are our standards dropping in the workplace?
  10. Explainer: what are 'creepshots' and what can we do about them?
  11. Four outdated assumptions prevent progress on affordable housing – to everyone's cost
  12. Student employment and inflexible university policies drive online drop out
  13. Publish and don’t perish – how to keep rare species' data away from poachers
  14. Step by step, we're tackling gender equity in Australian astronomy
  15. Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
  16. The unlikely 21st century reboot of an ancient philosophy
  17. Grattan on Friday: Hanson's 'outsider' politics a challenge for Turnbull as he sits in 'sensible centre'
  18. Gilead and the billion-dollar odyssey
  19. Platform co-ops offer urban communities a bigger say in their lives
  20. The Conversation attends Global Fact 4, with fact-checkers from around the world
  21. How a special forces 'band of brothers' culture leads to civilian deaths in war
  22. Are Australia's native pigeons sitting ducks?
  23. The off-topic Conversation #128
  24. How people can best make the transition to cool future cities
  25. How to maintain the balance between boundaries and freedom in secondary school parenting
  26. Why you should eat a plant-based diet, but that doesn't mean being a vegetarian
  27. Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs
  28. Explainer: how Australia's military justice system works
  29. How empathy can make or break a troll
  30. Politics podcast: Graeme Samuel on data governance
  31. Network Ten's future is all about media power, not economics
  32. Can property survive the great climate transition?
  33. How infectious diseases have shaped our culture, habits and language
  34. Why it matters to transform parent involvement from early childhood to primary school
  35. Resume robot wars: how employees could match employers' use of tech in job applications
  36. How many people can Australia feed?
  37. What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space
  38. Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes
  39. Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology
  40. The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal
  41. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  42. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  43. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  44. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  45. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  46. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  47. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  48. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  49. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  50. What actually is a good city?

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