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Mirabella scores spectacular own goal as she attempts Indi comeback

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Former Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella has delivered an early blow to her campaign to regain Indi with an unsubstantiated claim that the seat missed out on A$10 million in hospital money because it elected independent Cathy McGowan.

Mirabella, who lost the seat in 2013, made the assertion in a Sky TV forum on Thursday night.

She told a...

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What the universe's most elusive particles can tell us about the universe's most energetic objects

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageA burst of ghostly neutrinos may have been generated by a quasar like this.ESO/M. Kornmesser

In 2012, a tiny flash of light was detected deep beneath the Antarctic ice. A burst of neutrinos was responsible, and the flash of light was their calling card.

It might not sound momentous, but the flash could give us tantalising insights into one of the...

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Separating fact from fiction about euthanasia in Belgium

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imageAccess to euthanasia in Belgium has been “expanding” but it's not out of control. Xesai/Shutterstock

As a Belgian social scientist working on the topic of end-of-life care and decision making for the last ten years, a lot of my research has concerned the practice of euthanasia, which my country legalised in 2002 for incurable patients...

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An elusive virtuoso who embraced ambiguity and female desire

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Sacred. Profane. Lover. Slave. Coy. Explicit. Intimate. Epic. Human. Messiah. Prince was a study in oppositions, ambiguity, and resistance.

He refused to be pinned down on his racial identity, telling interviewers that he was mixed, quarter black and/or half Italian (in fact both his parents were African American), and he played with a racially...

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  2. The battle for audiences as free-TV viewing continues its decline
  3. Three years on from Rana Plaza disaster and little improvement in transparency or worker conditions
  4. Prince’s passing bookends another chapter in the history of music
  5. Drought forecasting isn't just about water – to get smart we need health and financial data too
  6. Queensland Labor and LNP's 'appalling hypocrisy': experts' warnings over shock electoral changes
  7. Betrayal and guilt: past and future collide in Easter Rising commemorations
  8. Full response from Jane Caro
  9. FactCheck Q A: does Australia have one of the most unequal education systems in the OECD?
  10. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the unofficial election campaign
  11. Is online therapy as good as talking face-to-face with a clinician?
  12. Affordable, sustainable, high quality urban housing? It's not an impossible dream
  13. They're the voice: how workers can be heard when unions are on the wane
  14. Vital Signs: Governor Glenn Stevens drops the ball
  15. The Paris Agreement signing ceremony at a glance
  16. Indigenous innovation could save a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases
  17. Ideas for Australia: Australia boosts defences, but must pick its fights carefully in a time of tensions and uncertainties
  18. Ideas for Australia: Sold short – Australia's aid cuts have foreign policy consequences
  19. Grattan on Friday: Who wins the biffo over the banks is politically important because this issue bites
  20. Friday essay: on telling the stories of characters with Down syndrome
  21. How half our brain keeps watch when we sleep in unfamiliar places
  22. Budget explainer: the structural deficit and what it means
  23. Kitchen Science: bacteria and fungi are your foody friends
  24. Aboriginal – Māori: how Indigenous health suffers on both sides of the ditch
  25. Explainer: what is Lyme disease and does it exist in Australia?
  26. Individuals not the priority in the Cyber Security Strategy
  27. Climate justice and its role in the Paris Agreement
  28. Bread like chaff and putrid rations: how WW1 troops obsessed over food
  29. The Cyber Security Strategy is only a small step in the right direction
  30. Where do record rental prices leave low-income earners?
  31. Stronger role for ombudsman is the key to protecting bank customers
  32. How should Indonesia resolve atrocities of the 1965-66 anti-communist purge?
  33. It is a great deal easier to eviscerate an arts sector than it is to build one up
  34. Building cool cities for a hot future
  35. How to pick Australia's health and medical research priorities
  36. Government backflip on ASIC could be too little too late
  37. Proposed crime prevention orders in NSW go a step too far in restricting offenders
  38. Trump, Clinton have emphatic wins in New York
  39. The real cost of Telstra's backflip on marriage equality
  40. Real journalists report the news – they don’t make it
  41. The state of the union(s): how a perfect storm weakened the workers' voices
  42. Ideas for Australia: Welfare reform needs to be about improving well-being, not punishing the poor
  43. Ideas for Australia: Closing the gap is proving hard, but we can do better by working developmentally
  44. Signing the Paris Climate Agreement is easy – what comes next for Australia will be hard
  45. Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster
  46. 'Supp'd full with horrors': 400 years of Shakespearean supernaturalism
  47. Black lung's back? How we became complacent with coal miners' pneumoconiosis
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