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Here's why well-intentioned vegan protesters are getting it wrong

  • Written by: Tani Khara, PhD student in Sustainability, University of Technology Sydney

Protests from animal-rights activists around the country have drawn a swift national backlash. The Prime Minister has condemned the animal-rights protesters as “shameful”, “un-Australian” and, memorably, “green-collar criminals”.

It’s clear the protesters have touched a nerve, attracting derisive comments...

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a lurch between aggression and apathy

  • Written by: Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University

This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election.


What happens when an opposition party wins power? In theory, it adopts a more statesmanlike demeanour. If it doesn’t, it stays perennially narky, unwilling to...

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'My girlfriend is intimidated by the idea of having sex. What should I do?'

  • Written by: David Rhodes, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
'My girlfriend is intimidated by the idea of having sex. What should I do?'Mutual respect and communication are key to successful relationships, regardless of the gender of the partners.Nina Maile Gordon/The Conversation, CC BY-NC-ND

This article is part of I Need To Know, a Q&A service for teenagers by The Conversation. Find out how to submit your questions at the end of this article.


My girlfriend was brought up in a...

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big on promises, short on follow-through

  • Written by: Anja Hilkemeijer, Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania

This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election.


Religious freedom

Anja Hilkemeijer, Law Lecturer, University of Tasmania; and Amy Maguire, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle Law School

In December 2017, joyous...

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  1. Labor will prioritise an NBN 'digital inclusion drive' – here's what it should focus on
  2. Bowen says Labor would have lower tax take than under Howard years
  3. intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war
  4. Government advertising may be legal, but it's corrupting our electoral process
  5. Housing with no serious faults and buyer protection – is that too much to ask of builders and regulators?
  6. We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here's why it could happen again
  7. We've found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers
  8. Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal
  9. Vicki Laveau-Harvie's remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize
  10. Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie
  11. The Coalition's report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails
  12. More hospitals will not cure Australia's ailing health-care system. There's a more efficient way
  13. From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth's great animal migrations
  14. Coalition gets a bounce in Newspoll, but not in Ipsos or Essential
  15. The ABC didn't receive a reprieve in the budget. It's still facing staggering cuts
  16. Squid team finds high species diversity off Kermadec Islands, part of stalled marine reserve proposal
  17. green-collar criminals or civil 'disobedients'?
  18. Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine
  19. the curious case of shy lizards and deadly cane toads
  20. Business-as-usual record on transport leaves next government plenty of room to improve
  21. NZ journalists arrested in Fiji have been released but a new era of press freedom is yet to arrive
  22. A detailed eucalypt family tree helps us see how they came to dominate Australia
  23. The 14 Indigenous words for money on the new 50 cent coin
  24. What will the Coalition be remembered for on tax? Tinkering, blunders and lost opportunities
  25. Politicians need to listen up before they speak up – and listen in the right places
  26. Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
  27. Which families delay sending their child to school, and why? We crunched the numbers
  28. We need new rules for defining who is sick. Step 1: remove vested interests
  29. In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated
  30. Australia has a new National Construction Code, but it's still not good enough
  31. Control, cost and convenience determine how Australians use the technology in their homes
  32. It's the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani
  33. All female mammals have a clitoris – we're starting to work out what that means for their sex lives
  34. Labor's cancer package would cut the cost of care, but beware of unintended side effects
  35. How has education policy changed under the Coalition government?
  36. Tourists behaving badly are a threat to global tourism, and the industry is partly to blame
  37. how did the months get their names?
  38. The swamp foxtail's origin is hidden in its DNA
  39. Casual academics aren't going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn't affected?
  40. your guide to the 2019 Stella Prize shortlist
  41. Mercury pollution from decades past may have been re-released by Tasmania's bushfires
  42. should we nap during the day?
  43. $500m for station car parks? Other transport solutions could do much more for the money
  44. What the data say about discrimination and tolerance in New Zealand
  45. Chinese investment in Australia is down 36%. It's time for a more balanced debate about the national interest
  46. Edible seaweed can be used to grow blood vessels in the body
  47. What will the Turnbull-Morrison government be remembered for?
  48. Coalition narrows gap to trail 48-52% in post-budget Newspoll
  49. Cutting cancer costs is a worthy policy, but we need to try to prevent it too
  50. Those future tax cut promises... they're nowhere near as big as you'd think

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