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The timeless appeal of an ocean pool – turns out it's a good investment, too

  • Written by: James Carley, Principal Engineer, Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW
The timeless appeal of an ocean pool – turns out it's a good investment, tooThe ocean pool is a familiar sight in New South Wales – this one's at Tamarama in Sydney's eastern suburbs – but isn't nearly as common elsewhere.hopeless128/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Depending on definitions, the coast of New South Wales, Australia, has about 70 ocean pools, with most located between Newcastle and Wollongong. South Africa...

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Scott Morrison's Christmas letter to the colleagues

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Scott Morrison's Christmas letter to the colleaguesWes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Dear Michael, Josh, David, et al

Sorry to have left you all without my guiding hand this week. But Jen and I really needed the break. And the girls too - it’s hard when you’re the kids of the nation’s Daggy Dad.

We were all exhausted. And then came that smoke over Kirribilli – last straw....

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A new law in India could put Muslims at greater risk of persecution, like the Rohingya

  • Written by: Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland

Last week Aung San Suu Kyi took the stand at the International Court of Justice to defend Myanmar against charges of genocide.

A 2017 military campaign against the Muslim Rohingya expelled more than 700,000 from Rakhine State into Bangladesh. Survivors recounted numerous mass executions, rapes and other atrocities. The ferocity and scale of this...

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Donald Trump has become the third president in US history to be impeached. He's unlikely to be convicted

  • Written by: Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

The US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the third president in the history of the United States to be impeached.

Last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump.

The first stated that Trump committed an impeachable offence by withholding $391...

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  6. The Rise of Skywalker ends a third Star Wars trilogy. Here's why stories work so well in threes
  7. how toy makers are making a fortune with child gambling
  8. Why Australian road rules should be rewritten to put walking first
  9. When did 'Homo erectus' die out? A fresh look at the demise of an ancient human species over 100,000 years ago
  10. As drug deaths rise in rural Australia, we must do more to prevent overdoses
  11. Report on public service overhaul a good start, but parliamentary inquiry is needed
  12. Why a pardon for 20th-century Māori leader Rua Kēnana doesn't go far enough
  13. don't believe the cynics, your trust in us shows facts still matter
  14. Grattan and Martin on the year that was, in politics and economics
  15. Men craft too - but do they need support to raise their artistic profile?
  16. the GP's role in mental health care
  17. changes in climate since 2000 have cut Australian farm profits 22%
  18. That public playground is good for your kids and your wallet
  19. which countries are likely to meet their Paris Agreement targets
  20. the meme child making it a very Disney+ Christmas
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  23. AI may soon be able to analyse your tweets to match you to a job
  24. Blue carbon is not the silver bullet the Coalition wants it to be
  25. don't be fooled by Australia's latest report on the Great Barrier Reef
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  27. when the government fails to act, the public wearily steps up
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  30. Climate conferences are male, pale and stale – it's time to bring in women
  31. Poorer NSW students study subjects less likely to get them into uni
  32. For a greener future, we must accept there's nothing inherently sustainable about going digital
  33. Mathias Cormann and Jim Chalmers on the mid-year budget update
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