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We know _why_ bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, but _how_ does this actually happen?

  • Written by Laura Christine McCaughey, Research Fellow in Microbiology, University of Technology Sydney
imageBacteria have been developing resistance to antibiotics for over a billion years.from shutterstock.com

Antibiotic resistance has the potential to affect everyone. Most people would have heard about antibiotic resistance and studies show many are aware the cause of the current crisis is due to their overuse. But few know how and where the resistance...

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The public should be concerned when academics must battle bureaucrats for academic freedom

  • Written by Gigi Foster, Associate Professor, School of Economics, UNSW Australia
imageA FairWork decision has found in favour of a researcher disciplined over controversial racism research. Flickr/palg1305

The three-year dispute between the University of Queensland and academic Paul Frijters has finally been resolved, with the Fair Work Commission finding in Frijters' favour.

But this is a case that should ring alarm bells not just...

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Removing social media hate speech within 24 hours sounds like a good idea, but...

  • Written by Fiona R Martin, Senior Lecturer in Convergent and Online Media, University of Sydney

In a bid to fight escalating anti-migrant propaganda, the European Commission this month released a blueprint for regulating online hate, which requires social media companies to take down racist material within 24 hours.

This joint code of conduct sounds like a positive political compromise. But it’s unclear how it will work in practice and...

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  1. Election FactCheck: is it true no solely managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing?
  2. Cathedrals of light, cathedrals of ice, cathedrals of glass, cathedrals of bones
  3. It takes a village: law reform can't be the only response to online child abuse material
  4. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Nick Xenophon Team
  5. City sparrows came to Australia via India
  6. Is small business really the engine room of Australia's economy?
  7. What are the implications of privatising land title offices?
  8. Speaking with: Deb Warr on poverty porn
  9. New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
  10. Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?
  11. Coal and industrial relations: how miners secured workers' rights
  12. How Australians Die: cause #5 – diabetes
  13. Why Australia won't recognise Indigenous customary law
  14. From little things: the role of the Aboriginal customary law report in Mabo
  15. Law reports push piecemeal changes to native title, but still fall short
  16. The ACTU is a key Labor supporter but how much power does it actually have?
  17. Why the voice of Big Business is facing its biggest test
  18. Vital Signs: central bankers longing for growth that may not come
  19. Friday essay: punk's legacy, 40 years on
  20. Driverless cars need to hit the road come rain, wind or shine
  21. Governments must stop negatively framing policies aimed at Indigenous Australians
  22. Confusion about Senate rules could produce winners with small votes: Australia Institute
  23. Labor to release savings package
  24. Election podcast: Nick Xenophon on his play for Senate power
  25. Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Nick Xenophon
  26. Vote 1 'Other': what's driving more voters to back a minor party this election
  27. The ghost of the 'greedy geezers' hovers over our super debate
  28. Seven's Olympic coverage could change the way we watch sport on our screens
  29. Can The Avalanches flourish in a pop music world remade in their own image?
  30. The Hobbit took our breath away: now it's the new normal
  31. Why we need to pay more attention to negative clinical trials
  32. Election FactCheck: has $100 billion been added to Australia's national debt under the current government?
  33. Naming the 'invisible perpetrator': a big step forward for media coverage of violence against women
  34. Flat-earth economists lead the hysteria over budget deficits
  35. Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
  36. Michelle Grattan in conversation: Australian voters disengaged and disillusioned
  37. Speed networking: how to win Euro 2016
  38. Corporate venture capital can pay, but only if you get the structure right
  39. Six reasons why food is a really big deal
  40. Lobbying 101: how interest groups influence politicians and the public to get what they want
  41. Patient advocate or doctors' union? How the AMA flexes its political muscle
  42. How Australians Die: cause #4 – chronic lower respiratory diseases
  43. 'Character' and 'behaviour' off the field should not be selection criteria for the Olympics
  44. Coal was king of the Industrial Revolution, but not always the path to a modern economy
  45. It's time we broke up the retail arms of Australia's Big Four banks
  46. Shedding the 'victim narrative' for tales of magic, myth and superhero pride
  47. A 700,000-year-old fossil find shows the Hobbits’ ancestors were even smaller
  48. How the Hobbits kept their tools as they shrank into island life
  49. Google's other bets' losing streak: Nest and Verily's problematic Silicon Valley CEOs
  50. China and the US: when worlds collide

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