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How do we deal with the coming waves of climate change refugees?

  • Written by: Jane McAdam, Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Australia

On average, one person is displaced each second by a disaster-related hazard. In global terms, that’s about 26 million people a year.

Most move within their own countries, but some are forced across international borders. As climate change continues, more frequent and extreme weather events are expected to put more people in harm’s...

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Should we do away with exams altogether? No, but we need to rethink their design and purpose

  • Written by: Penny Van Bergen, Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology, Macquarie University
imageSome exam questions are poorly designed and written – this needs to change. from www.shutterstock.com

In our five-part series, Making Sense of Exams, we’ll discuss the purpose of exams, whether they can be done online, overcoming exam anxiety, and effective revision techniques.


Over the past two decades there have been frequent calls to a...

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Whose word should you respect in any debate on science?

  • Written by: Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking, The University of Queensland
imageSo many voices but who should you listen to in any debate on science matters?Shutterstock/coffeehuman

The motto of the Royal Society, Britain’s and perhaps the world’s oldest scientific society, is “nullius in verba” which it says translates as “take nobody’s word for it”.

This is a rejection of the idea...

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Shame as a political weapon: Donald Trump and the US presidential election

  • Written by: Chris Wallace, ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
imageBy sustained rhetorical attacks on women and minorities, Donald Trump absolved white working-class shame.Reuters/Mike Segar

Many reasons are still being advanced to explain Donald Trump’s win over his experienced, accomplished, much-fancied-in-the-polls rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election. White working-class anger has...

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More Articles …

  1. How e-cigarettes could 'health wash' the tobacco industry
  2. Changing the date – and a state of mind – from the westerly edges
  3. Turnbull is happy to horse trade if it gets the nags over the line
  4. Why it’s now Labor’s turn to compromise on the backpacker tax
  5. Politics podcast: Josh Frydenberg on climate change and the 2017 review
  6. Business Briefing: Former chief World Bank economist on inequality and doing away with big money
  7. The great Australian plays: speaking ‘Orstyrlian’ in Rusty Bugles
  8. How Donald Trump won the 2016 meme wars
  9. Government response to Infrastructure Australia offers no grounds for optimism
  10. Turnbull government secures ABCC – but suffers sudden defeat on backpacker tax
  11. Full response from a spokesperson for Barnaby Joyce
  12. FactCheck: would backpackers be better off working in Australia than NZ, England or Canada?
  13. We should all beware a resurgent financial sector
  14. Latest Murray-Darling squabble sheds light on the plan's flaws
  15. Which sports are best for health and long life?
  16. Neither the ABC nor SBS have anything to fear from community forums
  17. What are the great Australian plays? Refining our theatre canon
  18. How 'Alfred' the whale lost its teeth to become a giant filter feeder
  19. Medicare logo case shows the urgent need to update Australia's IP laws
  20. Will the latest electricity review bring climate and energy policy together at last?
  21. As Australian shipping grows, how can we avoid collisions with marine animals?
  22. Women don't always get what they want from labiaplasty
  23. In a win for consumers, ACCC rules against the banks' actions against Apple Pay
  24. Turnbull's water gesture satisfies Xenophon
  25. ACCC rejects the banks colluding to bargain on Apple Pay
  26. Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science
  27. New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis
  28. Paleopups and paleopussies: is a paleodiet for your pet a step too far?
  29. Ipsos: are the Greens really at 16%?
  30. From the Gold Coast to Geelong: how cities are shaping visions of their futures
  31. How tribal thinking has left us in a post-truth world
  32. What the government can learn from the backpacker tax debacle
  33. A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court
  34. It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'
  35. Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?
  36. Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights
  37. Changes for off-the-plan foreign buyers rely on a broken supply argument
  38. Scorsese's Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
  39. Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it
  40. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
  41. 'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone
  42. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  43. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  44. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
  45. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  46. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  47. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  48. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
  49. Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study
  50. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump

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