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Delving through settlers' diaries can reveal Australia's colonial-era climate

  • Written by: Linden Ashcroft, Senior Researcher, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

To really understand climate change, we need to look at the way the climate behaves over a long time. We need many years of weather information. But the Bureau of Meteorology’s high-quality instrumental climate record only dates back to the start of the 20th century.

This relatively short period makes it hard to identify what is natural...

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How to find success as a woman in science

  • Written by: Kara Perrow (nee Vine), Research Fellow and Group Leader of the Targeted Therapeutics Research Laboratory, University of Wollongong

As children we are encouraged to dream big, and many young people – including young women and girls – aspire to a career in science.

While there are role models at the top tiers of science combating gender bias, the jump from PhD student to lead researcher may at first seem insurmountable for many women.

Students considering a career in...

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Vital Signs: the case of the missing investment

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
imageThe Reserve Bank, under Governor Philip Lowe, this week kept the cash rate at 1.5%.AAP/Dean Lewins

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting global economies.

This week: the...

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Back to school – understanding challenges faced by Indigenous children

  • Written by: Tony Dreise, Indigenous policy analyst & researcher, Australian National University
imageOne way teachers can respect culture is by embedding it into 'mainstream' subjects.Tracey Nearmy/AAP

Chances are that many a tear has been shed throughout Australia in recent weeks with the start of the school year. But enough about the parents, let’s talk about the kids!

As with other students, many Indigenous kids will be excited about...

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  2. Grattan on Friday: Liberals get high on bubbles and billionaires
  3. Watch the bright star Regulus hide behind the Full Moon
  4. Full responses from Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten
  5. Fifty Shades Darker: an abusive fairy tale that robs women of sexual freedom
  6. Australia's innovation report card shows the nation can do better, and hints at how
  7. Stop focusing on 'the problem' in Indigenous education, and start looking at learning opportunities
  8. God bless the footy: dissent and distractions
  9. Omnibus welfare bill shows the always-tricky politics of budget savings
  10. Unusual conditions: delusional infestation with insects or spiders
  11. Bernardi split is symptomatic of a fractured political system, here and abroad
  12. The Rise of Islamo-Christian Civilization
  13. Australian government challenged to advocate for its citizen on death row in Thailand
  14. From banned to international glory, women's football has sown a rich field for the future
  15. Droughts and flooding rains already more likely as climate change plays havoc with Pacific weather
  16. A wolf in dogs' clothing? Why dingoes may not be Australian wildlife's saviours
  17. Kurt Gödel: from loopholes and dictators to the incompleteness theorems
  18. How to get quality teachers in disadvantaged schools – and keep them there
  19. What's behind the rise in shareholder class actions
  20. Female genital mutilation is hurting Australian girls and we must work together to stamp it out
  21. Twitter tries to tackle abuse as research shows that most of us can be trolls online
  22. Turnbull's rant about Shorten a treat for the troops but will it play with the public?
  23. Indonesia should support interfaith community programs to help Myanmar end ethnic violence
  24. The tragic story of Soviet genetics shows the folly of political meddling in science
  25. We've all heard about postnatal depression, but what about antenatal depression?
  26. Humans are driving a new burst of evolution including possibly our own
  27. Prize fight over live-streamed sport will go on long after the final bell sounds
  28. Trump triggers overdue policy debate
  29. Playing is not coaching: why so many sporting greats struggle as coaches
  30. Inspiring to speak out - two physicists who changed the world
  31. Rose Skinner: the firebrand Perth dealer neglected by a new art history
  32. Politics podcast: Cory Bernardi on why he spurned the Liberals
  33. Bernardi should have resigned his Senate seat: here's why
  34. Middle Eastern migrants aren't 'piling on to the dole queue'
  35. We need to be clear-headed when offering land for Singapore to train its soldiers
  36. The detective work behind the Budj Bim eel traps World Heritage bid
  37. What students learn about Asia is outdated and needs to change
  38. 'Fat, bland, boring incubators': ordinary pregnant women don't feel like Beyoncé
  39. Crisis, what crisis? How smart solar can protect our vulnerable power grids
  40. Australia's universities are not walking the talk on going low-carbon
  41. 3D television is dead... so what next?
  42. Tech companies fight Trump's travel ban and may take their business elsewhere
  43. Politics podcast: Arthur Sinodinos on the government's headwinds
  44. Coalition slump in Newspoll gives Labor 54-46 lead
  45. Bernardi says his new party will offer a 'principled' alternative for disillusioned conservative voters
  46. A vastly changed world means consumers won't react the same to higher interest rates
  47. Bernardi exits stage right: mayhem now, obscurity later
  48. Yes there's hope, but treating spinal injuries with stem cells is not a reality yet
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