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Whale of a problem: why do humpback whales protect other species from attack?

  • Written by: Tracey Rogers, Associate Professor Evolution & Ecology, UNSW Australia
imageHumpbacks can use their fins as weapons against killer whales.Michael Dawes/Flickr, CC BY-NC

A group of killer whales are on the hunt. They work together to submerge and drown a whale calf. But then more whales appear.

The newly arrived humpbacks bellow a trumpet-like call, and wield their five-metre-long pectoral flippers like swords against the...

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Politics podcast: Linda Burney on the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imagePat Hutchens/TC

Next week, Australians will look back at one the most significant moments in the struggle for Indigenous rights. August 23 marks the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off when Vincent Lingiari led a group of 200 Aboriginal workers and their families off a Northern Territory pastoral station in protest against their exploitative...

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As census failure blame points at IBM, why we shouldn't be surprised by its failings

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageIBM Smarter PlanetPhilipe Intralige

The Australian online census, which failed so spectacularly last week has still not succeeded in having enough people complete the process for it to be rescued from irrelevance. Fewer than half of Australia’s households have so far completed the survey.

As previously reported, IBM is being held responsible in...

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Turnbull to Labor: pass our $6 billion savings bill

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

The government will test Labor’s bona fides early in the new Parliament with an “omnibus bill” containing more than $6 billion in savings that it says the ALP flagged at the election it would support.

In his first major economic address since the July 2 poll, Turnbull on Wednesday will say the budget bottom line Labor outlined in...

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  7. Our planet is heating - the empirical evidence
  8. Cast adrift: Australia risks its international standing over asylum-seeker policies
  9. Violence is normal is Brazil, as visitors to Rio 2016 are finding out
  10. Do film adaptations boost Australian movies at the box office?
  11. Rethinking how we represent transgender children in the media
  12. Could Section 18C protect 'angry white males' like David Leyonhjelm?
  13. As pet owners suffer rental insecurity, perhaps landlords should think again
  14. Fishing, not oil, is at the heart of the South China Sea dispute
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  16. Ideas from abroad: reforming the Australian university admissions system
  17. In the mind of an elite athlete: what do sportspeople think when they excel?
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  22. What makes a winning sprinter?
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  24. My Scientology Movie: a perceptive mix of psychological drama and reality TV
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  26. Australia's delay in achieving marriage equality is coming at a real cost for our region
  27. How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature
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  36. NSW Liberals' factional battles stand in way of reform, but changes in participation demand it
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  39. If Abbott hadn't been hyper-partisan on Malaysia people swap, Turnbull mightn't have a Nauru problem
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