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Turnbull looks like a sprinter but is in a marathon

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

When the politicians arrived in Canberra for their special parliamentary session, it was obvious everyone wanted to do what was necessary for a July 2 election, and do it quickly.

Instead of taking weeks to consider the industrial legislation, the Senate by dinner time Monday had given the government its second double dissolution trigger, by...

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A precarious geological bargain

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

The landscapes of the Xinjiang province of western China are very special.

It is here the ancient trade routes of the Silk Roads skirt the great mountains and deserts of central Asia, weaving a magic thread through a region that has played a special role in history.

Xinjiang is the home to the Uyghur, a place where the cycles of life and geology...

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It's certain – Australians off to the polls on July 2 for double dissolution

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

Australians will go to a double-dissolution election on July 2 after the Senate voted 36-34 on Monday night to defeat the government’s legislation to resurrect the so-called cop-on-the-beat Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).

The government needed six of the eight non-Green crossbenchers but independents Jacqui Lambie,...

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  3. Australia's carbon emissions and electricity demand are growing: here's why
  4. Australia still hasn't had the debate on why we even need new submarines
  5. Health Check: can people actually multitask?
  6. Boaty McBoatface poll shows how not to do community consultation
  7. Special purpose liquidator for Queensland Nickel will turn up the heat on Clive Palmer
  8. Labor moves into dead heat with Coalition
  9. Data access inquiry casts the net far too wide
  10. World split on how to regulate 'killer robots'
  11. The off-topic Conversation #89
  12. CommInsure proves the need for a banking royal commission
  13. Mind the gap in local and international aid workers' salaries
  14. FactCheck: does ASIC already have the powers of a royal commission and more?
  15. FactCheck Q A: does Australia have some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome in the world?
  16. Ideas for Australia: Improving democracy for workers is not easy but it must be done
  17. Ideas for Australia: Voters have a good choice of politicians, but need to overcome their mistrust of them
  18. US firms knew about global warming in 1968 – what about Australia?
  19. Reducing stress at work is a walk in the park
  20. Should women athletes earn the same as men? The science says they work as hard
  21. Vaccination objection rates aren't skyrocketing
  22. Too strong to deliver? Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership dilemma
  23. Does more money for schools improve educational outcomes?
  24. All of humanity should share in the space mining boom
  25. Ipsos poll: Turnbull takes hit, Coalition-Labor 50-50
  26. Australia's housing finance in seven charts
  27. Explainer: what are the ABCC and Registered Organisations bills?
  28. Consensus confirmed: over 90% of climate scientists believe we're causing global warming
  29. Controversial history of Road Safety Tribunal shows minimum pay was doomed from the start
  30. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Clive Palmer
  31. Travelling with Timor Leste
  32. How can Indonesia free the mentally ill from shackles once and for all?
  33. Comments fail on indigenous deaths in custody
  34. Australia's waterbirds are disappearing – but nuclear physics can help save them
  35. Crossing the river by feeling the stones: democracy's advance in China
  36. Mutant malaria parasites resistant to antimalarial Atovaquone cannot spread: new research
  37. Grattan on Friday: Turnbull sees even a difficult new Senate as an opportunity for a fresh start
  38. Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custody
  39. Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custody
  40. Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance
  41. Ideas for Australia: A six-point plan for getting climate policy back on track
  42. Ideas for Australia: Let's retire the idea that Australia 'depends' on digging up coal and other resources
  43. Friday essay: Dogs in Space, 30 years on – a once maligned film comes of age
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  45. Vital Signs: spending away Australia's Triple A?
  46. The world at your feet: how to build a career in foreign relations
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