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No simple solution when families meet the law

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imageFamilies going through breakdown need understanding, but so do lawmakers trying to find fair outcomes from complex laws.Shutterstock

CHANGING FAMILIES: In this ten-part series, we examine some major changes in family and relationships, and how that might in turn reshape law, policy and our idea of ourselves.


It has often been said that when...

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Computing can help save the koala by predicting where they can survive

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imageThe fate of this koala could depend on some clever computer modelling.Shutterstock/Dudarev Mikhail

The latest in our Computing turns 60 series, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first computer in an Australian university, looks at how modelling can help the survival of our native species, including the koala.


Life is found almost everywhere on...

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Speaking with: 'Poll Bludger' William Bowe on the election races to watch

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imageAAP/Tracey Nearmy

In this podcast, University of Western Australia political analyst Natalie Mast speaks with “Poll Bludger” William Bowe about the election campaign so far. The conversation focuses on the latest polling and whether there is evidence of a nationwide swing large enough to unseat the Coalition government.

They touch on the...

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