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Australia to embrace the new era of gravitational wave astronomy

  • Written by: Matthew Bailes, ARC Laureate Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology., Swinburne University of Technology
imageGravitational waves are produced by some of the most extreme events in the universe.NASA/SXS Lensing

Four hundred years ago Galileo pointed a telescope at Jupiter and saw electromagnetic waves (light) being reflected off its moons.

This profound observation displaced Earth from its position at the centre of the universe to just one planet among...

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Climate action is the key to Australia achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

  • Written by: Nina Lansbury Hall, Sustainable Water Program Manager, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
imageClimate action by Australia affects all of Sustainable Development Goals, including those on water.Pushpendra Maheshwari

Australia will join the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York this week. Some of the discussion will focus on progressing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as agreed at the UN last year.

Australia is a...

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Plebiscite trouble wherever Malcolm Turnbull looks

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

In the beginning Malcolm Turnbull didn’t want a plebiscite on same-sex marriage. In the end he seems unlikely to be able to hold the one he promised. In between, the issue is causing him a lot of grief.

As is well known, Turnbull signed up to Tony Abbott’s plebiscite for simple advantage – to clinch some votes for the leadership,...

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Netflix likely to ignore 50% of customers willing to pay a premium for US content

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageUS NetflixExpressVPN

A survey released this week by OnePoll commissioned by comparison site Comparitech has found that half (48%) of the non-US respondents who used Netflix would pay a premium to get US restricted content. 43% of respondents also felt it was wrong of Netflix to try and ban VPNs customers were using to get around geo-blocking...

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  1. Senate to inquire into Nauru and Manus Island
  2. On the life of an adjective
  3. Fifteen years on from 9/11, we calculated the true cost to business
  4. When political self-interest decides donations rules, what chance reform in the public interest?
  5. Health Check: can vitamins supplement a poor diet?
  6. The off-topic Conversation #107
  7. Blame game as government forced to filibuster to fill Senate work gap
  8. Why moving out public housing tenants is a tragedy for Millers Point and for Sydney
  9. Retraction: why we removed an article about Chinese donations
  10. Phew! New Urban Agenda clears last hurdle before Habitat III
  11. Are refugee and migrant diasporas the missing piece of the development puzzle?
  12. Soft power and the institutionalisation of influence
  13. Road user charging belongs on the political agenda as the best answer for congestion management
  14. Free speech and the media are too often in a marriage of convenience
  15. Explainer: what is free speech?
  16. A history of failed reform: why Australia needs a banking royal commission
  17. To really tackle corporate tax evasion we need a public register
  18. Here’s looking at: Mike Parr’s Jackson Pollock the Female
  19. How does ice use affect families and what can they do?
  20. Ancient life in Greenland and the search for life on Mars
  21. Do arts teachers have to be artists?
  22. The fossil fuel divestment game is getting bigger, thanks to the smaller players
  23. What we have in common with corals and their unexplored microbial world
  24. Boyer Lectures: Episode 2 – Give every child the best start
  25. Why Australia needs a Chief Artist
  26. The tragedy of Eaten Fish, the award-winning cartoonist on Manus Island
  27. It's not easy keeping the Paralympics a level playing field, but the current system is the best there is
  28. One in five tattoo inks in Australia contain carcinogenic chemicals
  29. What are the attributes needed to be a successful sporting leader?
  30. Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
  31. Company results wrap: weighing up the risks behind the profits of Australia's big four banks
  32. Dastyari dilemma – the attraction of strangers bearing gifts
  33. A US$24b summit about a staircase: lessons for Germany and the 2017 G20 leaders
  34. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Malcolm Turnbull's first year in office
  35. He may have insulted Obama, but Duterte held up a long-hidden looking glass to the US
  36. Could Islamic State's new threats against Australia show its bark is now worse than its bite?
  37. Viewpoints: do foreigners have more freedom to invest in Australia than in almost any other country?
  38. Vital Signs: scrape below the surface and the economy doesn't look so good
  39. Friday essay: Svetlana Alexeviech didn't make it to the Royal Commission
  40. Ex-ice users lecturing school kids isn't the answer to preventing drug use
  41. Let's measure the value of Australia's medal success. No, not at the Olympics
  42. Teaching maths – what does the evidence say actually works?
  43. EcoCheck: the Grampians are struggling with drought and deluge
  44. Grattan on Friday: A year in, we don't yet know what Turnbull wants to do with the job
  45. The limit of labels: ethical food is more than consumer choice
  46. The US has banned antibacterial handwashes – here's why Australia should too
  47. Apple is losing the innovation game, it can't trap users anymore
  48. Renewables are getting cheaper all the time – here's why
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