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Explainer: what is the 100-year-old Sykes-Picot Agreement?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor
imageThe promise of recently explored oilfields dictated British interest in Mesopotamia (roughly, modern-day Iraq) during the Sykes-Picot Agreement negotiations.Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory article about the secret accord (below), an argument the...

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Grattan on Friday: Turnbull and Shorten play to voters who are yet to engage

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Resembling a rough game of ice hockey, the 2016 campaign already has seen slips, slides and own goals. Neither side has scored a big break through.

Bill Shorten – who must win the campaign itself for victory in the election – has been undermined by trouble with candidates' stands on asylum seekers. On another front, Chris Brown from the...

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Why the death of employment is a dead idea

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imageThe rise of subcontracting and franchises has allowed employers to enjoy the profits without the responsibility.shutterstock

The federal government has proposed that the “future of work” be the main industrial relations battleground in the election.

The current system, it says, is “stuck in the past” and has not kept up with...

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  1. South Australia is now coal-free, and batteries could fill the energy gap
  2. Why neither party should ignore gender in this election
  3. Science or Snake Oil: can a detox actually cleanse your liver?
  4. Friday essay: from Daenerys to Yara - the top ten women of Game of Thrones
  5. Lecturers: encourage your students to enrol and vote in the election
  6. Students are using 'smart' spy technology to cheat in exams
  7. Why the long face: just how risky is horse riding?
  8. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, April 2016
  9. How Scared or Hopeful Should We Be in a Warming World?
  10. Kepler finds more 'Earth-like planets', but are they really like Earth?
  11. Milk price cuts reflect the reality of sweeping changes in global dairy market
  12. The danger of overselling science
  13. From whales to insects, the Fraser Island dingo diet is a dog’s breakfast
  14. Unfair if rare: should the PBS change the way it lists cancer drugs?
  15. Uber’s quasi union could be a Faustian bargain for drivers
  16. Why you should never put a goldfish in a park pond ... or down the toilet
  17. Election 2016: the most exciting time to be multicultural in Australia?
  18. Why is it still possible to climb Ulu<u>r</u>u?
  19. Do the sums: bicycle-friendly changes are good business
  20. Fairfax-APN merger more bad news for media diversity
  21. Perth Green Growth Plan puts strategic environmental assessments to the city test
  22. Should older people and those with dementia have their licences revoked?
  23. New Zealand's indigenous reconciliation efforts show having a treaty isn't enough
  24. Election explainer: what are the opinion polls and how accurate are they?
  25. Location, location, location: why South Australia could take the world's nuclear waste
  26. 'Jobs and growth' and deja vu: reprising a failed American experiment
  27. Songwriting as solace: 'I live in the same body but it can't talk to me any more'
  28. Confusion over Google's paid services could land it in trouble, again
  29. Goodbye Northern lights, hello sunlight?
  30. ALP ousts Fremantle candidate
  31. The perils of Lindsay and the hovering Abbott shadow
  32. The world's oldest axe shows the cut and thrust of academia
  33. We're hiring: The Conversation's technical development team is growing
  34. UK elections: Labour wins London mayoralty, but otherwise mixed
  35. Ancient Australia: world's first nation of innovators
  36. Election FactCheck: is Labor planning to increase taxes by $100 billion over ten years?
  37. Explainer: why protecting the Red Cross emblem matters
  38. Why Shorten wants to kill off spectre of Labor-Greens deal in a hung parliament
  39. Hidden housemates: the mosquitoes that battle for our backyards
  40. Bowen's budget rebuttal scored points, but the key point will be trust
  41. Weekly dose: the hard facts on Viagra
  42. Do smart people tend to be more liberal? Yes, but it doesn't mean all conservatives are stupid
  43. What if young people designed their own learning?
  44. Indigenous reconciliation is hard, it re-opens wounds to heal them
  45. Experience and di Natale position the Greens as a formidable election force
  46. Antarctic ice shows Australia's drought and flood risk is worse than thought
  47. The herd driven housing bubble that could trigger an apartment bust
  48. Why we need environmental accounts alongside national accounts
  49. Is a story about heterosexual coupling the queerest film of the past year?
  50. Erectile dysfunction often has a psychological basis
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