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what is a lawyer's duty to their client and are there exceptions?

  • Written by: Elyse Methven, Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
what is a lawyer's duty to their client and are there exceptions?Police informers are critical to the gathering of criminal intelligence.from shutterstock.com

The police-informer relationship has come under scrutiny in the case of Lawyer X – a barrister who acted as counsel for a number of prominent criminal defendants. Victoria police initially reported Lawyer X had been registered as an informant between...

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Michelle Grattan on the backlash to the banking report and the medical transfer bill

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

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss the political implications of the royal commission report into banking, and the suspense as parliament returns around the refugee medical transfer legislation.

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Michelle Grattan owns shares in banks and other financial institutions...

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Don't overlook residents' role in apartment building safety

  • Written by: Matthew Bell, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, University of Melbourne

For many of us, the reality of Australian homes now sits many storeys up in the sky. High-rise apartment buildings have sprouted across the nation’s cities. In recent weeks – on Christmas Eve at the Opal Tower building in Sydney and on February 4 at the Neo200 Building in Melbourne – that reality has turned into the nightmare for...

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New Caledonian crows smart enough to plan three steps ahead to solve tricky problem

  • Written by: Alex Taylor, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
New Caledonian crows smart enough to plan three steps ahead to solve tricky problemMore than 620 million years of evolution separate crows from humans, but the birds show that they can plan three steps ahead.Romana Gruber, CC BY-ND

My ideas about animal behaviour were turned upside down in 2002 when I watched Betty, a New Caledonian crow, fashion a hook from a piece of wire and use it to pull a small container with meat from a...

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  1. A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk
  2. Why do parents kill their children? The facts about filicide in Australia
  3. In debates about drug use, fun is important
  4. lost and found in the Tasmanian bush
  5. Vital Signs. If needed, this man can and will cut rates during the election campaign
  6. Defence mechanisms. Why NAB chairman Ken Henry lost his job
  7. Suspense over medical transfers bill goes down to the wire
  8. NAB's Andrew Thorburn and Ken Henry quit after royal commission lashing
  9. After the floods come the mosquitoes – but the disease risk is more difficult to predict
  10. The Lawyer X scandal is a massive blow to the criminal justice system: here's why
  11. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, prodigiously talented painter
  12. Why are Australians still using Facebook?
  13. The collapse of the US-Russia INF Treaty makes arms control a global priority
  14. What has Australia learned from Black Saturday?
  15. Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come
  16. Ten years ago, climate adaptation research was gaining steam. Today, it's gutted
  17. How a bushfire can destroy a home
  18. 70 years before Black Saturday, the birth of the Victorian CFA was a sad tale of politics as usual
  19. Dry lightning has set Tasmania ablaze, and climate change makes it more likely to happen again
  20. Ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica predicted to bring more frequent extreme weather
  21. Does microdosing improve your mood and performance? Here's what the research says
  22. One in six Australian women in their 30s have had an abortion – and we're starting to understand why
  23. Can bees do maths? Yes – new research shows they can add and subtract
  24. What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations do bad things
  25. Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started
  26. Where are the in-depth documentaries calling to account the institutions that are failing us?
  27. What is Islamic dispute resolution and why is it controversial in Australia?
  28. Morrison plays scare card on medical transfer bill
  29. One Infinity explores tension and connection between China and the West
  30. why are burps so loud?
  31. do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?
  32. Old bones reveal new evidence about the role of islands in penguin evolution
  33. The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand
  34. What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?
  35. Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research
  36. Considering using IVF to have a baby? Here's what you need to know
  37. How Hayne failed remote Australia
  38. How public ineptitude and private enterprise combined to give Venezuela hyperinflation
  39. Feminist hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been stifled by a new patriarchal construct: the cinema
  40. why the physical environment is important too
  41. Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter
  42. the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi
  43. Why bank shares are climbing despite the royal commission
  44. we should legislate on Hayne recommendations before election
  45. Michael McCormack on banks and the bush, and the election battle
  46. The shocking use of 'jiggers' in horse racing
  47. Just So You Know...The Conversation launches a Q&A service for teens
  48. Queensland's floods are so huge the only way to track them is from space
  49. Cladding fires expose gaps in building material safety checks. Here's a solution
  50. Our 'bee-eye camera' helps us support bees, grow food and protect the environment

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