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The silencing of the seas: how our oceans are going quiet

  • Written by: Ivan Nagelkerken, Associate Professor, Marine Biology, University of Adelaide
imageThe second-noisiest animal in the ocean, the snapping shrimp. Dr Tullio Rossi, CC BY-SA

Despite appearances, the oceans are far from silent places. If you dunk your head underwater you’ll hear a cacophony of sounds from wildlife great and small, crashing waves, and even rain. And it’s louder still for creatures attuned to these sounds.

Ho...

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Australia's educational policies both embody and entrench low expectations of students

  • Written by: Misty Adoniou, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
imageNewly arrived English language learners are often not taught by qualified specialist teachers.Paul Miller/AAP

It was George W Bush who first described low educational expectations as a form of “soft” bigotry. But it is a mantra that has held a lot of appeal for Australian politicians and educational bureaucrats.

Sometimes the finger is...

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Full response from a spokesperson for Doug Cameron

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Editor, The Conversation

When asked for sources in relation to this FactCheck on political donations, a spokesperson for Doug Cameron said:

Senator Cameron was speaking about proposals to ban all donations not made by persons on the electoral roll. The case he referred to was Unions NSW and Others v State of New South Wales(2013) 252 CLR 530; [2013] HCA 58 (‘Unions...

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Private resettlement models offer a way for Australia to lift its refugee intake

  • Written by: Susan Kneebone, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
imageCan and should Australia be doing more to resettle refugees?AAP/Orhan Tsolak

No-one disputes the urgent need for co-operative solutions to the global crisis of displaced people, estimated at 65 million people. But the chances of co-operation in the resettlement of recognised refugees seem slim.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has...

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  3. Today's leaders could learn from Menzies, who built modern Australia without acting in haste
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  5. Gaps in education data: there are many questions for which we don't have accurate answers
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  7. Disruption over Macquarie Island calls for some clever Antarctic thinking
  8. 'Grotesque spectacle'? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible
  9. Hard to see compromise on same-sex marriage plebiscite
  10. Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?
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  12. WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position
  13. Community wellbeing best measured from the ground up: a Yawuru example
  14. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  15. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  16. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
  17. Why we run Author Q As
  18. Paralympian role models: media hype, political rhetoric or the real deal?
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  20. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
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  22. Callinan review largely backs Sydney lockout laws, but alcohol's role in family violence is a blind spot
  23. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's week of success
  24. Technology matters in the Paralympics, but the athlete matters more
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  26. Why are there so many species of bugs, but so few species of human?
  27. Rules of the Game: a disparate mix of ping-pong balls, paper and Pharrell Williams
  28. How Airbnb is reshaping our cities
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  30. Crossroads program: should we teach children that gender identity is fluid? Here's what the research says
  31. Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story
  32. Insults, offence and words that wound: why language needs to be handled with care
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  35. Friday essay: science fiction's women problem
  36. Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia's misguided war on bikies
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  39. Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?
  40. Kangaroo Island's choice: a new cable to the mainland, or renewable power
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  42. What comes after the Paralympics? How sport and study can enhance each other
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