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Why it's time for Australia to launch its own space agency

  • Written by: Simon Driver, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Western Australia

Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key link in the global chain of ground-based tracking stations.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a deep space tracking facility at Tidbinbilla in the ACT, managed by...

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Alcohol leads to more violence than other drugs, but you'd never know from the headlines

  • Written by: Stephen Bright, Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
imageDrinking alcohol, not taking illicit drugs like ecstasy or LSD, is more closely linked with violence. Yet, media reports tend to say the opposite.from www.shutterstock.com

Mainstream media tend to report more stories about illicit drugs than alcohol.

Stories about illicit drugs are also more negative. The media is more likely to frame illicit drugs...

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New research shows how petrol retailers pushed prices up in Perth

  • Written by: David Byrne, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Big petrol retailers are pushing the price of petrol up by communicating through prices and while this is technically legal, it should be receiving more scrutiny from regulators because it’s what researchers call tacit collusion (also known as price leadership). New analysis of retailers in Perth over a period of five years shows this...

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The faulty child welfare system is the real issue behind our youth justice crisis

  • Written by: Katherine McFarlane, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Law & Justice, Charles Sturt University
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Somewhere along the way, many vulnerable children in state care turn to crime. How this happens and what can be done about it are two of the most important crime-prevention questions facing society. Evidence indicates that, if the care-to-crime pathway is not acknowledged and addressed, today’s vulnerable kids will become tomorrow’s...

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  1. FactCheck: is Australia below the international average when it comes to school funding?
  2. Is there a crisis in public education?
  3. Guide to the classics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  4. How drones can help fight the war on shark attacks
  5. Plea to politicians on energy: stop the brawling
  6. One Nation has now been 'normalised' in the Liberals’ firmament of political players
  7. Queensland Galaxy: One Nation surges to 23%
  8. Fed up with bad relationships? Then why not marry yourself?
  9. Is NBN Co's CEO right that Australians aren't interested in ultra-fast broadband?
  10. Increased private health insurance premiums don't mean increased value
  11. Black holes are even stranger than you can imagine
  12. Australia Post salary scandal highlights our nation's growing wage inequality
  13. Why did energy regulators deliberately turn out the lights in South Australia?
  14. New deal on torture a step in the right direction for Australia's human rights law
  15. Abbott hasn't convinced own electors on Senate curb
  16. South Australia's gambling tax highlights the regulatory mess of online betting
  17. Flattering emails will get you everywhere, except when they're from junk journals
  18. Shared ownership can help make housing affordable for people with disability
  19. Friday essay: Putin, memory wars and the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution
  20. Drugs don't cure everything – doctors can be helped to prescribe other options
  21. Delving through settlers' diaries can reveal Australia's colonial-era climate
  22. How to find success as a woman in science
  23. Vital Signs: the case of the missing investment
  24. Back to school – understanding challenges faced by Indigenous children
  25. FactCheck: are bulk-billing rates falling, or at record levels?
  26. Grattan on Friday: Liberals get high on bubbles and billionaires
  27. Watch the bright star Regulus hide behind the Full Moon
  28. Full responses from Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten
  29. Fifty Shades Darker: an abusive fairy tale that robs women of sexual freedom
  30. Australia's innovation report card shows the nation can do better, and hints at how
  31. Stop focusing on 'the problem' in Indigenous education, and start looking at learning opportunities
  32. God bless the footy: dissent and distractions
  33. Omnibus welfare bill shows the always-tricky politics of budget savings
  34. Unusual conditions: delusional infestation with insects or spiders
  35. Bernardi split is symptomatic of a fractured political system, here and abroad
  36. The Rise of Islamo-Christian Civilization
  37. Australian government challenged to advocate for its citizen on death row in Thailand
  38. From banned to international glory, women's football has sown a rich field for the future
  39. Droughts and flooding rains already more likely as climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather
  40. A wolf in dogs' clothing? Why dingoes may not be Australian wildlife's saviours
  41. Kurt Gödel: from loopholes and dictators to the incompleteness theorems
  42. How to get quality teachers in disadvantaged schools – and keep them there
  43. What's behind the rise in shareholder class actions
  44. Female genital mutilation is hurting Australian girls and we must work together to stamp it out
  45. Twitter tries to tackle abuse as research shows that most of us can be trolls online
  46. Turnbull's rant about Shorten a treat for the troops but will it play with the public?
  47. Indonesia should support interfaith community programs to help Myanmar end ethnic violence
  48. The tragic story of Soviet genetics shows the folly of political meddling in science
  49. We've all heard about postnatal depression, but what about antenatal depression?
  50. Humans are driving a new burst of evolution including possibly our own

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