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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Labor's shadow cabinet

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Geoff Crisp speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss Labor’s shadow cabinet, including Shorten’s new role in the area of the NDIS where he will be going up against Stewart Robert. They also talk about the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut interest rates to...

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NZ has dethroned GDP as a measure of success, but will Ardern's government be transformational?

  • Written by: David Hall, Senior Researcher in Politics, Auckland University of Technology
NZ has dethroned GDP as a measure of success, but will Ardern's government be transformational?Jacinda Ardern has spoken about just transitions that implement change but minimise disruption.AAP/ Felipe Trueba, CC BY-ND

When you’re in politics, words are a high-stakes game. Voters and journalists hold you to them and there is a risk in using words that are hard to live up to. This is particularly true for politicians whose reputation is...

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why don't ladybirds have tails?

  • Written by: Heshani Edirisinghe, PhD student, Massey University
why don't ladybirds have tails?Ladybirds are insects with a hard outer shell, just like beetlesShutterstock

Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious...

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A disc of dust and gas found around a newborn planet could be the birthplace of moons

  • Written by: Valentin Christiaens, Research Fellow in Astrophysics, Monash University
A disc of dust and gas found around a newborn planet could be the birthplace of moonsThe bright spot in the centre of the image is a new planet forming. Valentin Christiaens et al./ ESO, Author provided

When Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei first spotted four moons of Jupiter through a telescope, he realised that not everything goes around the Earth, as was the prevailing theory in 1610.

The presumed origin of the Galilean moons...

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