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Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy

  • Written by Ismatu Ropi, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research, Centre for the Study of Islam and Society, Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Indonesian police are investigating Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaya Purnama, also known as Ahok, for blasphemy. They named him a suspect after hundreds of thousands of people rallied against the Chinese-Indonesian and Christian governor earlier this month.

Behind the enormous protest was a complex web of religious and political interests. But some...

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Comments on mobile

  • Written by Cory Zanoni, Community Manager, The Conversation

The ability to read and make comments on mobile has been one of the most oft-requested features on our site. We’re happy to say that you can now do just that.

A long time coming

When I say comments on mobile was often requested, I wasn’t joking: many readers have asked us when they’d be able to read comments on their phones over...

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A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?

  • Written by Thomas Birtchnell, Senior lecturer, University of Wollongong

3D printed guns are back in the news after Queensland Police reported last week that they had discovered a 3D printer in a raid on what appeared to be a “large-scale” weapons production facility as a part of Operation Oscar Quantum.

According to police, the raid uncovered homemade weapons and ammunition in a workshop manufacturing...

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Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The government has made another retreat on its backpacker tax, dropping its proposed rate from 19% to 15% in a deal that will get through the Senate crossbench.

The backdown comes a day after Finance Minister Mathias Cormann ruled out any further revision, saying the government had compromised enough and the budget could not afford more.

The...

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  1. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  2. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  3. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  4. Why music is not lost
  5. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  6. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  7. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  8. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  9. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  10. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  11. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  12. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  13. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  14. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now
  15. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  16. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  17. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  18. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  19. Why we require real names
  20. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  21. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
  22. We could've seen thunderstorm asthma coming and there are ways to prepare
  23. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
  24. A new phonics test is pointless – we shouldn't waste precious money buying it from England
  25. Reinventing density: bridging the live-work divide
  26. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
  27. Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend?
  28. Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study
  29. Zika 'health emergency' status removed but it's sad news for reproductive health
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on One Nation's troubles
  31. The rise and rise of the omniscient ‘I’
  32. Why we need to educate journalists about Aboriginal women's experience of family violence
  33. Changes to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of data and innovation
  34. Reinventing density: bending the rules can help stop urban sprawl
  35. Friday essay: the loss of music
  36. Vital Signs: construction slump points to cooling economy
  37. Can the way we move after injury lead to chronic pain?
  38. 2050 climate targets: nations are playing the long game in fighting global warming
  39. Pink balls in day-night cricket could challenge players at sunset
  40. Grattan on Friday: The government is compromising Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to inclusion
  41. Politics podcast: Jenny Macklin on Labor's approach to welfare
  42. The limits of Silicon Valley: how Indonesia’s GoJek is beating Uber
  43. Bright city lights are keeping ocean predators awake and hungry
  44. Why the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report is still largely a story of failure
  45. Explainer: what is exposure therapy and how can it treat social anxiety?
  46. Early childhood educators rely on families to prop up low income, research finds
  47. Race to the bottom on company tax cuts won't stop tax avoidance
  48. ARIA there yet? Causes galore and some poop talk at the music industry awards
  49. Now we can edit life itself, we need to ask how we should use such technology
  50. Arrests and uncertainty overseas show why Australia must legalise compensated surrogacy
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