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India revokes Kashmir’s autonomy, risking yet another war with Pakistan

  • Written by: Kamran Khalid, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney

Tensions are on the rise in Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian state situated mostly in the Himalayas. For decades, it has had constitutional autonomy from India.

The region is an area of major territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Parts of the Kashmir valley have been under Pakistan’s control since the 1948 Indo-Pakistani war and both...

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How good was John Clarke? Some reflections on his poetics of tinkering

  • Written by: Robert Phiddian, Professor of English, Flinders University
How good was John Clarke? Some reflections on his poetics of tinkeringJohn Clarke: his tinkering involved prolonged fiddling with words to get tone, rhythm and meaning exactly right.ABC/AAP

In April this year, the Ukraine elected comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as its president, and the ABC reported on a sudden upsurge in Australian interest in something similar here. Many names came forward, but the only actually dead...

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Curious Kids: why is urine yellow?

  • Written by: Jaquelyne Hughes, Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
Curious Kids: why is urine yellow?If you have been drinking more water than your body needs, the body tells the kidney filters to get rid of the spare water. That's when your urine will look paler.ShutterstockCurious Kids: why is urine yellow?

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au.


Why is urine yellow? – Ronan, aged 9, Greenslopes, Brisbane.


Th...

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Gas prices are set to stay high. The government's moves, while welcome, won't achieve much

  • Written by: Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
Gas prices are set to stay high. The government's moves, while welcome, won't achieve muchOnly more gas and less demand will shift gas prices. There's only so much the government can do.Shutterstock

“The Liberal-National government will help secure gas supplies, put downward pressure on prices and encourage new investment in gas supplies,” Tuesday’s announcement says.

Only a supreme optimist would expect it to do all...

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