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Election explainer: what are the opinion polls and how accurate are they?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageAustralia’s system of compulsory voting makes the pollsters’ job much easier than under voluntary voting.AAP/Dan Peled

Many opinion polls will be published during the election campaign. Most use either live phone polling (calls made by a human), robopolling (computer calls) or an online panel (poll sample selected from a large database...

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Location, location, location: why South Australia could take the world's nuclear waste

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageAustralia could take spent fuel from nuclear power stations overseas. This one is in South Korea. IAEA Imagebank/Flickr, CC BY-SA

South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended the state investigate an international storage site for intermediate and high-level (spent fuel) nuclear waste.

This coincides with the shortlisti...

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