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FactCheck Year in Review: sorting fact from fiction in 2015

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageBroadcaster Alan Jones was a good sport and readily acknowledged his error on the cost of wind power, giving The Conversation its best-read FactCheck of 2015.AAP Image/Lukas Coch

In 2015 we heard plenty of assertions that sounded a lot like facts – even when they really weren’t.

FactCheck continued its unique model of double checking...

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10 great books that all children should read

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imageIt's time to pick up that favourite book and get reading. from shutterstock.com

The books we remember strongly as adults are often the ones we read as children. Not only do we remember particular books, but the emotions we experienced.

Children’s books are reread and remembered over a lifetime, and many authors believe their best writing is...

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In their own words: letters from ANZACs during the Gallipoli evacuation

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It’s 100 years since the successful evacuation from Gallipoli of Allied troops. Just five days before Christmas, in the early hours of Monday December 20, 1915, the last Anzac troops left Gallipoli in what Australian historian Joan Beaumont called an “elaborate game of deception”.

Self-firing guns were rigged to...

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  14. New mothers making time for themselves reduces chance of postnatal depression
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  18. Turning up the heat: how the diplomatic push for 1.5℃ unfolded in Paris
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  20. Thanks to Paris, we have a foundation for meaningful climate progress
  21. Bitcoin might not change the world, but the blockchain that makes it work, might
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  23. Let's allow parallel book imports, and subsidise Australian publishing
  24. Door of Syrian peace talks still closed to Australia
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  26. Has this been a good year for international relations?
  27. Google trumps Apple for Australian mobile payments, but for how long?
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  29. Book review: Keating, by Kerry O'Brien
  30. If you want to crack down on tax avoidance, go after the banks
  31. Court dismisses the Dallas Buyers Club latest copyright claim as 'not Ben-Hur'
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  34. We need to ditch the pink ball in day-night test cricket
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  36. Releasing government's advice would help parliament better scrutinise laws
  37. Why labour is such a pain – and how to reduce it
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