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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?
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  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?
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  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
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  31. The real leadership challenge: only six Liberals are suitable to be PM
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  34. The right prescription: pharmacy sector in dire need of reform
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  36. The Flanagan effect: Tasmanian literature in the limelight
  37. The Road to Paris: three myths about international climate talks
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  40. Can the states help the nation's critical research infrastructure?
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  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
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