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We're close to banning nuclear weapons – killer robots must be next

  • Written by: Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
imageInternational flags fly at United Nations headquarters, New York City. Osugi/shutterstock

While much of the world’s attention was focused last week on the G20 meeting in Hamburg, and Donald Trump’s first face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin, a historic decision took place at the United Nations (UN) in New York.

On Friday, 122...

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The policy termites slowly eating out the foundations of smoking

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageLike a mound of termites, tobacco control policies are eating away at smoking in ways we're not always conscious of.from www.shutterstock.com

Across 40 years of working in tobacco control, there have been countless times when I’ve been asked “so, has [insert here] policy or [insert here] campaign worked?”.

The question has its...

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The electricity sector needs to cut carbon by 45% by 2030 to keep Australia on track

  • Written by: Amandine Denis, Head of Research, ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University

Our new ClimateWorks Australia report, released today, shows that the electricity sector needs to deliver a much greater cut than the 28% emissions reduction modelled in the Finkel Review if Australia is to meet its overall climate target for 2030.

When Australia’s energy ministers meet this Friday to discuss (among other things) the Finkel...

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From Boomers to Xennials: we love talking about our generations, but must recognise their limits

  • Written by: Dan Woodman, TR Ashworth Associate Professor in Sociology, University of Melbourne
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We all know the names: Boomers, Gen X and Millennials. Now we can add the “Xennials”, a cross-over generation between X-ers and Millennials that recently took the internet by storm.

The “Xennials” are supposedly a group born between the late 1970s and early 1980s who entered the labour...

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

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