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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on infighting in the Liberal Party

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageAAP/Lukas Coch

The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Frances Shannon discuss the week in politics, including the internal conflict within the Liberals over Tony Abbott’s sniping, whether the phased reduction to penalty rates will be an election issue, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s visit to Hamburg for the G20...

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It's not the science of tax, and five other things you should know about taxonomy

  • Written by: Kevin Thiele, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia
imageUlysses butterflies (_Papilio ulysses_) in CSIRO’s Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra.CSIRO, Author provided

Earlier this year, a Canadian scientist named a new moth species Neopalpa donaldtrumpi (read that name out loud for full effect). It’s an insect with a golden hairdo and relatively small genitals.

Taxonomy is the...

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Impending traffic chaos? Beware the problematic West Gate Tunnel forecasts

  • Written by: Nathan Pittman, PhD Candidate in Transportation Planning, University of Melbourne
imageAn artist's impression of the new river crossing to be built as part of the West Gate Tunnel project.Western Distributor Authority

The recently released environmental effects statement and transportation impact assessment for the proposed West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne’s western and inner suburbs have once again sparked debate about...

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Book review: The Death of Expertise

  • Written by: Rod Lamberts, Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
imageA new book expresses concern that the 'average American' has base knowledge so low that it is now plummeting to 'aggressively wrong'.shutterstock

I have to start this review with a confession: I wanted to like this book from the moment I read the title. And I did. Tom Nichols’ The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge...

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  1. Electronic games: how much is too much for kids?
  2. Vital Signs: the RBA was right to keep rates on hold
  3. A new approach to emissions trading in a post-Paris climate
  4. Forget cash: geocaching shows there are other ways to create value online
  5. Friday essay: double standards and derision – tracing our attitudes to older women and beauty
  6. Migrants are healthier than the average Australian, so they can't be a burden on the health system
  7. A busy week on the dark web highlight darknet markets' increasing role in crime
  8. Grattan on Friday: Everything's going Bill Shorten's way
  9. Labor motion on Palestinian recognition could put the Jewish vote in play at the next election
  10. Australia's dry June is a sign of what's to come
  11. Why the climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than weather records suggest
  12. Explainer: what is ballistic missile defence – and would it stop a missile from North Korea?
  13. Speaking with: Professor Peter Koopman on CRISPR and the power of genome editing
  14. Vivacious and unapologetic, The Rover's 17th-century feminism is painfully pertinent
  15. The G20’s economic leadership deficit
  16. Wayne Rooney for Everton
  17. What income inequality looks like across Australia
  18. Don't worry about the huge Antarctic iceberg – worry about the glaciers behind it
  19. How Angela Merkel has become – and remains – one of the world's most successful political leaders
  20. The Australian palaeodiet: which native animals should we eat?
  21. Satellites reveal melting of rocks under volcanic zone, deep in Earth's mantle
  22. Brisbane's Cross River Rail will feed the centre at the expense of people in the suburbs
  23. The great movie scenes: Steven Spielberg's Jaws
  24. Viewpoints: should euthanasia be available for people with existential suffering?
  25. After the Medicare breach, we should be cautious about moving our health records online
  26. E-cigarettes are some young people's training wheels for smoking. Here's the evidence
  27. Leaky Liberals spill the beans again
  28. Axing the Walkley for international reporting: another nail in the coffin
  29. Suburbs 'swamped' by Asians and Muslims? The data show a different story
  30. Three charts on: the changing face of Australian union members
  31. The West's hyperbole on North Korea will only fuel Kim Jong-un's propaganda
  32. Doctors and nurses can't always tell if someone's drunk or on drugs, and misdiagnosis can be dangerous
  33. Spider-Man: Homecoming spins a web of fact and fantasy
  34. Curious Kids: why do some people find some foods yummy but others find the same foods yucky?
  35. What the rise of daily fantasy sports will mean for problem gambling
  36. City planning suffers growth pains of Australia's population boom
  37. How to tell when the housing market is slowing
  38. Read, listen, understand: why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
  39. Jukurrpa-kurlu Yapa-kurlangu-kurlu
  40. Surgery to make intersex children 'normal' should be banned
  41. Land clearing isn't just about trees – it's an animal welfare issue too
  42. SA Galaxy: 50-50 tie. Labor, Greens gain in Essential
  43. Government behavioural economics 'nudge unit' needs a shove in a new direction
  44. Do we claim 'bullying' too often?
  45. Doing away with the annual performance review? More feedback isn't necessarily better
  46. No, nanoparticles in baby formula will not harm your baby
  47. 'Cyber revolution' in Australian Defence Force demands rethink of staff, training and policy
  48. New maps reveal cancer levels across Australia, and across the social strata
  49. How to reduce sexism in screenplays
  50. Bloom and boom: how babies and migrants have contributed to Australia's population growth

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