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What biological clocks and geological rocks tell us about life in space

  • Written by: Sarah R.N. McIntyre, PhD Scholar, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
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One of the first geological lessons we learn is that continents are constantly moving. The evidence of these plate tectonic movements is written in the rocks. But the rocks only tell us half of the story. The other half is contained in the...

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Hijabers of Instagram: the Muslim women challenging stereotypes

  • Written by: Alila Pramiyanti, PhD Candidate, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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It is easy for non-Muslims to forget that there are places where Muslim women lead lives full of frivolity and fun: they shop, read fashion magazines and travel to Europe. But on social media a global community of fashion-conscious Muslim women are challenging the stereotypes of Muslim women as submissive and disempowered.

In Indonesia, where...

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Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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The Western Australian Liberal Party has created a website, www.wawhistleblowers.com, encouraging whistleblowers to report on WA public officers, government ministers and members of parliament.

The site has already been reported to the State Solicitor’s Office for potentially being illegal...

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The Tabcorp/Tatts case should end the clash between the ACCC and the Competition Tribunal

  • Written by: Julie Clarke, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

A long-running tension between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Australian Competition Tribunal is coming to a head. The ACCC disagrees with the Tribunal’s decision on the merger of two of Australia’s biggest gaming companies, Tabcorp Holdings and Tatts Group, and has taken the matter to the Federal...

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  1. We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next
  2. The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking
  3. The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track
  4. From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits
  5. Is the world really sleepwalking to war? Systems thinking can provide an answer
  6. Four myths about water fluoridation and why they're wrong
  7. Asia’s dangerous new geopolitics
  8. What ethical business can do to help make ecocities a reality
  9. Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India
  10. What actually is a good city?
  11. Turnbull is right to link the Liberals with the centre – but is the centre where it used to be?
  12. How we change the organisms that infect us
  13. Eleven games and activities for parents to encourage maths in early learning
  14. Three charts on: G20 countries' stealth trade protectionism
  15. The UN is slowly warming to the task of protecting World Heritage sites from climate change
  16. Smartphone apps can be memory aids for people with brain injuries, and everyone else
  17. Curious Kids: Are zombies real?
  18. From The Secret Garden to Thirteen Reasons Why, death is getting darker in children's books
  19. Turnbull loses 15th successive Newspoll, 53-47. UK Labour doubles support in YouGov since April
  20. Turnbull finds the sensible centre a slippery patch
  21. Why GPs prescribe too many antibiotics and why it's time to set targets
  22. How worried should you be about lead from Aldi taps?
  23. With better data access, urban planners could help ease our weight problems
  24. Donald Horne's 'lucky country' and the decline of the public intellectual
  25. How Australia's discrimination laws and public health campaigns perpetuate fat stigma
  26. Explainer: what can Tesla's giant South Australian battery achieve?
  27. All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
  28. La Mama demonstrates the value of independent theatre
  29. Can you spare 5 minutes for The Conversation?
  30. More reason to use Meningococcal B vaccine – it could also cut the Clap
  31. Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia
  32. How we've evolved to fight the bugs that infect us
  33. Five lessons from Tokyo, a city of 38m people, for Australia, a nation of 24m
  34. How to encourage literacy in young children (and beyond)
  35. Migrants are stopping regional areas from shrinking
  36. Delaying action on car emissions will make Australia more vulnerable
  37. A time capsule containing 118 trillion cubic feet of gas is buried in northern Australia
  38. Here’s looking at: Jim Dine's The mighty robe
  39. Turnbull's dilemma: we don't need a homeland security portfolio but Dutton wants a bone
  40. Disagreement within the Greens shows the price of doing politics differently
  41. What we miss when we focus on the gender wage gap
  42. Why comparing technology to drugs isn't simply a question of addiction
  43. A short history of vaccine objection, vaccine cults and conspiracy theories
  44. Islamophobia is still raising its ugly head in Australia
  45. As an historic nuclear weapons treaty is reached, G20 leaders miss the mark on North Korea
  46. Four of the most lethal infectious diseases of our time and how we're overcoming them
  47. Market-driven compaction is no way to build an ecocity
  48. Three reasons the government promotes home ownership for older Australians
  49. We know innovation is key – but there's little agreement on exactly what it is
  50. Without better regulation, the global market for breast milk will exploit mothers

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