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Why the Paris climate talks won’t be another Copenhagen

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageUN lead climate negotiator Christiana Figueres (second from left) has been hailed as having the dynamism needed to drive the Paris talks.EPA/AAP

This is part 2 of a three-part essay on the prospects for a global climate deal at the Paris 2015 talks. You can read part 1 here.

For three years leading up to the last significant United Nations climate...

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Australians should learn from Canadians' big census mistake

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageCensus collectors go door to door in Sydney in 2011, the 100th year of census taking in Australia. Now the next census, due in 2016, is in doubt.AAP/Dean Lewins

Canadians and Australians have a lot in common. We share a language, a rich history and presence of Aboriginal peoples, multicultural populations and increasingly ambiguous ties to our...

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Corporate tax cuts help big business and small firms pay the price

  • Written by: The Conversation

In the fight to get business backing, taxation has become the latest battleground in the UK general election. The Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government claims to be more business friendly and the Labour Party claims that small businesses have been harshly dealt with. Neither, however, have put forward a coherent set of policies to...

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Russell Crowe's Water Diviner tries to question history, but misses the mark

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imageStar, director, hero.Entertainment One

April 2015 marks the centenary of the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign, the failed invasion of modern-day Turkey by British and French imperial forces. Remembered in Britain mainly for the failings of Winston Churchill, Gallipoli has enormous significance in Australian national culture. The death at...

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  2. Explainer: how do minority governments survive?
  3. It is not clear who won in the Dallas Buyers Club LLC court case and was it moot?
  4. Government hid knowledge of Nauru assaults, open letter alleges
  5. How do we solve science's 'credibility problem'?
  6. From beer as preventative to modern-day bacteria, food safety is still on the agenda
  7. Government and business are their own worst enemies in the pursuit of reform
  8. Manifesto Check: Plaid Cymru's tax policies won't tackle Wales' productivity problem
  9. Despite progress on Iran, we still live in a dangerous nuclear world
  10. Wall Street has finally begun to downsize, but how did we ever let it get so big in the first place?
  11. Rwanda: how to deal with a million genocide suspects
  12. Don't think you have enough self-control? Try believing that you do
  13. Crisis in American education as teacher morale hits an all-time low
  14. An economy focused solely on growth is environmentally and socially unsustainable
  15. From the Great Plains, Native American masterpieces emerged
  16. Fluorescent proteins light up science by making the invisible visible
  17. When in Moscow: how to do business in Putin’s Russia
  18. Explainer: how much state funding do universities get?
  19. Why Brontosaurus is no longer a dirty word for dinosaur hunters
  20. Nigeria: economic priorities are clear – here is what Buhari needs to do
  21. Could Nick Clegg really lose his seat in the general election?
  22. Deception Island – the Antarctic volcano that just doesn't make any sense
  23. Why we must discuss sex, rape and porn in the classroom
  24. Ocean 'dead zones' are spreading – and that spells disaster for fish
  25. The return of the hand car wash and the UK's productivity puzzle
  26. What hope for a Conservative minority government? Ask me again tomorrow
  27. Explainer: what is the Community Pharmacy Agreement?
  28. Friendship in war was not just confined to bonds between men
  29. Got chronic pain? Just un-learn to live with it...
  30. Financial markets expect a cut, but RBA Shadow Board says hold
  31. The real leadership challenge: only six Liberals are suitable to be PM
  32. Why Twiggy Forrest should have got behind a super profits tax
  33. World's largest asteroid impact site could be right here in Australia
  34. The right prescription: pharmacy sector in dire need of reform
  35. Low interest rates set to stay, so what's the best investment course for retirees?
  36. The Flanagan effect: Tasmanian literature in the limelight
  37. The Road to Paris: three myths about international climate talks
  38. The Gallaghers, the Stefanovics and the Rineharts: what's behind sibling rivalries?
  39. Are mixed-grade classes any better or worse for learning?
  40. Can the states help the nation's critical research infrastructure?
  41. Un-doing awareness: Do smart watches make dumb humans?
  42. Amazon's dashing vision of the future of shopping: Think fast, Think less, Buy more
  43. Industrial corn farming is ruining our health and polluting our watersheds
  44. US should stop blocking China's AIIB and join allies in new club
  45. A dark night is good for your health
  46. Emoticons and symbols aren't ruining language – they're revolutionizing it
  47. Skunk cabbage blooms are a stinky herald of spring
  48. The end of college? Or a new beginning?
  49. Gallipoli's rich history of conflict started well before 1915
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