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Australia withdraws its Indonesian ambassador in execution response

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imagePrime Minister Tony Abbott has described the killings as "cruel and unnecessary".AAP/Lukas Coch

Australia’s government has taken the unprecedented step of withdrawing its ambassador, Paul Grigson, from Jakarta to register a strong protest at the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

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Baltimore riots: The fire this time and the fire last time and the time between

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imageDemonstrators attempt to keep protests calm during Baltimore demonstrations. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

Editor’s note: Protests erupted Monday into violence in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddie Gray, a black man who died after being taken into police custody. We asked scholars to comment on the implications of the riots, which occurred 47...

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What tourists need to know about earthquakes and other geohazards

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imageRuined temples in Kathmandu.Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Saturday just before noon, tourists posted photos of Nepal’s World Heritage sites, walking side by side with Nepalese residents of Kathmandu. Moments later, they fell to the ground as intense ground shaking announced the rupture of a roughly 170 kilometer-long (about 100 miles) swath of a deadly...

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Use super contributions to repay student loans

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imageOne piggy bank for student loans and one for retirement.from www.shutterstock.com.au

The Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) is a balancing act. On one hand, a student loan has to be repaid only if and when it is deemed “affordable” for the graduate to do so. On the other, the cost of zero real interest, delayed repayments, or no...

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  2. Less is the new more: choosing medical tests and treatments wisely
  3. You may be travelling less -- and that's a good thing
  4. Why the Federal Budget is a textbook policy dilemma
  5. Australia's 'five pillar economy': education
  6. Chan and Sukumaran are victims of the futile war on drugs
  7. Bali Nine duo executed: the view from Indonesia
  8. What led to the Baltimore riots?
  9. Forget the James Webb, a future high-definition telescope could probe life on exoplanets
  10. The Conservative Party's economic record just went from bad to worse
  11. Baltimore burning: death of African American in police custody lit old tinderbox
  12. The key role of NGOs in bringing disaster relief in Nepal
  13. Is Brexit a good idea? Lessons from Norway on the advantages of EU membership
  14. Celebrity twat or man of the people? Russell Brand is both in The Emperor's New Clothes
  15. Labour ahead in ground war — just don't mention Scotland
  16. When society isn't judging, women's sex drive rivals men's
  17. Fact Check: are disadvantaged young people 12 times less likely to go to university?
  18. Whoever governs, Britain's Africa policy is tied to the UN and the EU
  19. Computers are knocking on the door of the company boardroom
  20. Rather than divest, advocate for carbon balancing
  21. The crisis revealed by the killing of Walter Scott: how we're failing vulnerable fathers
  22. Europe needs another Marshall Plan to save crisis-ravaged euro
  23. Even setting evolution aside, basic geology disproves creationism
  24. Explainer: how recovery high schools help kids with addiction
  25. Syringe exchange in southern Indiana to respond to an increase in HIV cases: better late than never?
  26. Nanny program is first instalment in Morrison's child care revamp
  27. Why it is so hard to predict where and when earthquakes will strike
  28. Why a Labour deal might be a better bet for the DUP after the election
  29. US Supreme Court takes up gay marriage case – but whose common sense will prevail?
  30. Ignoring disabled people and carers could cost parties thousands of votes
  31. Forgotten resistance: the Italian freedom fighters dropped from our history books
  32. In praise of skaters – elves saving cities' forlorn and forgotten corners
  33. Real or fantasy, football is now consumed by numbers
  34. UK election spells the end for the biggest ‘law’ in political science
  35. Dying for work: the changing face of work-related injuries
  36. Confusopoly: Why companies are motivated to deliberately confuse
  37. Sydney storm: are extreme rains and flash floods increasing?
  38. Belle Gibson shows that most of us care about right and wrong
  39. Why Read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America?
  40. The future of food: growing more with the same land
  41. Islamic State theoreticians have honed plans for battle and a state
  42. The electoral arithmetic keeping Britain's political strategists awake at night
  43. Closing 'communities' undermines the humanity of Aboriginal lives
  44. Explainer: was the Sydney storm 'once-in-a-century'?
  45. A field guide to the 2015 Federal Budget
  46. Something vital is missing from EU's 10-point plan to stop deaths at sea
  47. Obesity wars revisited: is it the meat or the motion?
  48. P-TECHs a positive move for those who don't want to go to university
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