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Cuts to sole parent benefits are human rights violations

  • Written by: Beth Goldblatt, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
image40% of children in sole-parent households are living below the poverty line.Shutterstock

Sole parents in Australia are economically vulnerable and are experiencing ongoing cuts to their social security. Legislation limiting welfare benefits that was rushed through the Senate last week will make many of them poorer – but how is this a human...

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Four Corners: can the NDIS prevent abuse of people with disability?

  • Written by: Carmel Laragy, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
imageWill abusers still be able to move to a new service and continue abusing under the NDIS?from shutterstock.com

Monday’s Four Corners program, Fighting the System, was deeply disturbing viewing. It detailed shocking sexual abuse allegations of two residents at a group home for people with disabilities.

One of the most intolerable elements of the...

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Tracking the storm: the science behind Tropical Cyclone Debbie

  • Written by: Liz Ritchie-Tyo, Associate Professor, School of Physical, Environmental, and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW

Tropical cyclone Debbie has made landfall in Queensland as a category 4 cyclone with winds of more than 150 kilometres per hour.

The cyclone crossed the coast near Airlie Beach on Tuesday afternoon. Reports of wind gusts in excess of 200km per hour and rainfall of more than 200mm of rain have been made in some areas along the central Queensland...

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Hazelwood closure: what it means for electricity prices and blackouts

  • Written by: Dylan McConnell, Researcher at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne
imageHazelwood's closure does not mean imminent blackouts for Victoria.Takver/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Victoria’s Hazelwood power station will be shut down this week after nearly 50 years of supplying electricity.

The imminent closure has led to concerns about blackouts, raised most recently by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, and rising electricity...

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  2. Deadly Funny -- a new brand of Australian comedy
  3. Myth busting claims on the impact of the company tax cut
  4. The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them
  5. New study shows HPV vaccine is working to reduce rates of genital warts
  6. Selective schools' long and tangled history with race and class
  7. Now we are six. How The Conversation is transforming the media landscape
  8. Labor seizes 55-45 lead in Ipsos with the Greens at an unrealistic 16%
  9. Politics podcast: David Marr on Pauline Hanson's star power
  10. Star Trek's Holodeck: from science fiction to a new reality
  11. New research shows immigration has only a minor effect on wages
  12. Revisiting colonial ruin in the Flinders Ranges
  13. Explainer: what is TB and am I at risk of getting it in Australia?
  14. Brexit creates a human rights crisis for Ireland
  15. Explainer: why the government 'pulled' Australia's extradition treaty with China
  16. How Australia's animals and plants are changing to keep up with the climate
  17. Sidelining planners makes for poorer urban policy, and future generations will pay the price
  18. Houses aren't more unaffordable for first home buyers, but they are riskier
  19. With wariness on both sides, the US strikes a more conciliatory note on China
  20. Dark tourism, Aboriginal imprisonment and the ‘prison tree’ that wasn’t
  21. Why we signed the open letter from scientists supporting a total ban on nuclear weapons
  22. A soldier and a sex worker walk into a therapist’s office. Who's more likely to have PTSD?
  23. Teaching-only roles could mark the end of your academic career
  24. Plastic fantastic: how lotteries could revolutionise recycling
  25. Australia may be closer to being a cashless society but it won't happen by 2020
  26. Late payments: the policy no-brainer for business
  27. Hanson stirs the sugar pot and backflips on penalty rates
  28. The government is belatedly backing the penalty rates cut it always wanted
  29. PolicyCheck: the government's new child care plan
  30. Co-working is evolving to combine co-living
  31. Green chemistry is key to reducing waste and improving sustainablity
  32. Something big exploded in a galaxy far, far away: what was it?
  33. Technology-facilitated abuse: the new breed of domestic violence
  34. Distress, status wars and immoral behaviour: the psychological impacts of inequality
  35. Health Check: are microgreens better for you than regular greens?
  36. Indians' 'notes ban' compliance masks a silent crisis of legitimacy
  37. Li Keqiang's visit a good sign for the China-Australia relationship
  38. Millions of Australian adults are unvaccinated and it's increasing disease risk for all of us
  39. There are more useful questions to ask than whether Australia has 'too many' charities
  40. Government behind 45-55% in Ipsos poll
  41. Drawings reveal the struggles and triumphs of child refugees in their first six months of high school
  42. Safe in the City? Girls tell it like it is
  43. Five golden rules to help solve your recycling dilemmas
  44. Recycling can be confusing, but it’s getting simpler
  45. Rising imports make the case for Trump's border adjustment tax in Australia
  46. Youth underemployment at four-decade peak: Brotherhood report
  47. Regression to the mean, or why perfection rarely lasts
  48. Estonia is putting its country in the cloud and offering virtual residency
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