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Blocking Huawei from Australia means slower and delayed 5G – and for what?

  • Written by: Stanley Shanapinda, Research Fellow, La Trobe University

The United States and Australia are deliberately restricting the place of Chinese telco Huawei in their telecommunications landscapes.

We’re told these changes will be worth it from a security point of view.


Read more: What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down


But Huawei infrastructure is already ubiquitous in...

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Newspoll probably wrong since Morrison became PM; polling has been less accurate at recent elections

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Newspoll probably wrong since Morrison became PM; polling has been less accurate at recent electionsThe polls have likely been off for some time- one reason the result on election day was widely unexpected.AAP/Glenn Hunt

Since Scott Morrison became PM in August 2018, Newspoll has usually been the best pollster for Labor. This was particularly so in late 2018, but these strong polls for Labor should now be questioned. In November 2018, Labor had...

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how was the Earth made?

  • Written by: Niraj Lal, Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, Australian National University
how was the Earth made?Earth is really ancient, and humans have only been around for a tiny part of that time. NASA, CC BY-SA

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...

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Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison's politics

  • Written by: Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison's politicsPrime Minister Scott Morrison sings during a service at the Horizon Church in Sydney in April.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Prime Minister Scott Morrison began his victory speech on Saturday with the words, “I have always believed in miracles”. This was no mere hyperbole. Morrison appeared to be declaring his belief that God had actively intervened...

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  1. How we solved the mystery of Libyan desert glass
  2. Where to now for unions and 'change the rules'?
  3. Eastern China pinpointed as source of rogue ozone-depleting emissions
  4. Why the 2019 election was more like 2004 than 1993 – and Labor has some reason to hope
  5. Rethinking tourism so the locals actually benefit from hosting visitors
  6. Aboriginal Australians want care after brain injury. But it must consider their cultural needs
  7. Wind in Albanese's sails as Chalmers weighs options
  8. With the LNP returned to power, is there anything left in Adani's way?
  9. New data shows sex offenders in Victoria are going to prison for longer
  10. don't judge, try to understand us
  11. In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard
  12. Sex trafficking's tragic paradox: when victims become perpetrators
  13. Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it's important
  14. Cutting interest rates is just the start. It's about to become much, much easier to borrow
  15. 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation
  16. Aboriginal mothers are incarcerated at alarming rates – and their mental and physical health suffers
  17. From sharks in seagrass to manatees in mangroves, we've found large marine species in some surprising places
  18. some Western Australian reefs have the lowest coral cover on record
  19. 3 lessons from behavioural economics Bill Shorten's Labor Party forgot about
  20. The 'pulse' of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption
  21. Ennigaldi-Nanna, curator of the world's first museum
  22. How close is Sydney to the vision of creating three 30-minute cities?
  23. Queensland paper backtracks after using violent imagery to depict Annastacia Palaszczuk
  24. Bowen carries baggage into Labor leadership contest
  25. US-China relations are certainly at a low point, but this is not the next Cold War
  26. Here's how to make opinion polls more representative and honest
  27. After Clive Palmer's $60 million campaign, limits on political advertising are more important than ever
  28. Teenagers need our support, not criticism, as they navigate life online
  29. Rockabul, a tale of a metal band in Kabul, reinvigorates the radical spirit of rock 'n' roll
  30. why do we lose our baby teeth?
  31. Curious Kids: why do we sigh?
  32. After 8 years of memes, videos and role playing, what now for Game of Thrones' multimedia fans?
  33. Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change
  34. Going up. Monday showed what the market thinks of Morrison
  35. Queensland and Tasmania win it for the Coalition
  36. 'Do no harm' isn't enough. Why the banking royal commission will ultimately achieve little
  37. Some of our foods have nano particles in them – should we be worried?
  38. First-year uni can add 4kg to your weight. Here's how universities can scale that back
  39. Migration is a growing issue, but it remains a challenge to define who actually is a migrant
  40. how India's ruling party is erasing the Muslim heritage of the nation's cities
  41. For an unlucky 10% of people with concussion, the symptoms may be long-lasting
  42. Jim Chalmers considers tilt at leadership
  43. We made a moving tectonic map of the Game of Thrones landscape
  44. Trouble in the Gulf as US-Iran dispute threatens to escalate into serious conflict
  45. are you up to date with your vaccinations?
  46. Labor's election loss was not a surprise if you take historical trends into account
  47. the evolution of dog breeding
  48. why do we not use the magnetic energy the Earth provides to create electricity?
  49. Their biggest challenge? Avoiding a recession
  50. Rapid growth is widening Melbourne's social and economic divide

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