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FactCheck: how are the 12,000 extra refugees coming to Australia chosen?

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageLiberal Senator Cory Bernardi has flagged concerns about how the extra 12,000 refugees chosen for resettlement in Australia will be picked. AAP Image/Paul Miller

What we’ve effectively been told is that the UNHCR, a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, are going to make the determination about who is going to be sent to Australia or not. And a lot...

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Australia's leader sets his sights low in opening conference gambit

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imageMalcolm Turnbull addresses the opening of the Paris climate summit.EPA/Christophe Petit Tesson

When newly minted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd rose to speak at COP13 in Bali in 2007 and announced that Australia would ratify the Kyoto Protocol, he received a standing ovation from the world community. After years of pariah status under John...

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Take no prisoners: the Paris climate talks need to move beyond 'fairness'

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imageWorld leaders gathering at COP21 should ditch old ideas about 'climate equity'.Reuters/Jacky Naegelen

For years now the climate talks have revolved around discussions who should bear the burden of cutting emissions, particularly between developed and developing nations. Much of Paris climate summit will be focused on this notion of equity and how...

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  1. Terrorism debate can't be stifled, must be managed.
  2. What to expect at the Paris climate talks: a mixed bag
  3. Australia needs a fresh start on climate policy: authority
  4. Health Check: the low-down on trans fats
  5. Nobel Laureate Douglass North's work leaves a strong legacy for economics
  6. What dictates how much pain you feel after injury?
  7. From India, with love: cultural appropriation and 50 years of Light on Yoga
  8. Domestic violence and Facebook: harassment takes new forms in the social media age
  9. Marketing the climate summit by 'greening' the Eiffel Tower
  10. Einstein's folly: how the search for a unified theory stumped him to his dying day
  11. State by state, 'safe access zones' around clinics are shielding women from abortion protesters
  12. The off-topic Conversation #71
  13. Paris has already given us a modest climate deal – now to ramp it up
  14. Gambling on pokies is like tobacco – no amount of it is safe
  15. Here's another reason kids don't belong in detention: trauma changes growing brains
  16. Who are you? Junior novel George wants to help kids understand gender identity
  17. Be sure to read the fine print in Turnbull's mid-year economic update
  18. We can achieve sustainability -- but not without limiting growth
  19. The 'lucky country' needs to be re-invented
  20. Should parents expose children to news on terrorism?
  21. FactCheck Q A: have any refugees who came to Australia gone on to be terrorists?
  22. Apple Pay in Australia. Customers lose out and all parties share the blame
  23. Security climate mutes environmental activists' voice in Paris
  24. It's not just national governments who are pledging climate action
  25. Farewell Bruce Billson your passion for small business will be sorely missed
  26. Frydenberg accuses Grand Mufti of an attempted 'cover up' and failure of leadership
  27. Is this the moment that climate politics and public opinion finally match up?
  28. Woolies – not Masters of Risk
  29. Policymakers should use caution when drawing lessons from OECD’s education report
  30. It's time to fix the power dynamics that allowed the abuse of people with disability
  31. Labor pledges 45% emissions cuts by 2030, but the science says more is needed
  32. Here's how to get more women promoted to top jobs in universities
  33. A Paris summit for climate and peace?
  34. The limits of multilateralism
  35. We count what matters, and violence against people with disability matters
  36. Cut down on salt, drink less and move more: Australia's blueprint to control chronic disease
  37. Out of step: marching for climate justice versus taking action
  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Mal Brough
  39. Cents and sensibility: why it's unwise to put dollar figures on nature
  40. Why single women are more likely to retire poor
  41. Your Questions Answered on advance care directives
  42. Lebanese-style power-sharing isn't the solution to the Syrian impasse
  43. Five reasons to keep boots off the ground in the fight against Islamic State – for now
  44. Grattan on Friday: Brough's baggage creates mess for Malcolm
  45. Here's what you need to know about menopausal hormone therapy and cancer risk
  46. Friday essay: the art market is failing Australian artists
  47. Five tricks retailers will use to make you shop this Christmas
  48. More men die in bushfires: how gender affects how we plan and respond
  49. Don't stop me now! Superluminal travel in Einstein's universe
  50. A five-point scorecard that predicts success at the Paris climate talks

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