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History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren't

  • Written by: Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren'tWhen considering harm to the user and to wider society, alcohol is much more of a problem than MDMA. Krists Luhaers

Drug-related offences take up a lot of the resources within Australia’s criminal justice system. In 2016–17 law enforcement made 113,533 illicit drug seizures and 154,650 drug-related arrests.

Harm-reduction advocates are...

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Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen

  • Written by: Susan Davis, Deputy Dean Research, Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia
Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-PetersenKathleen McArthur (left) and Judith Wright (right) wildflowering at Currimundi in 1961.Photo by Alex Jelinek. Courtesy Alexandra Moreno

In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages.

This year marks 50 years since the launch of one of Australia’s first major conservation battles, waged against Queensland’s...

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a partial defence of the hipster

  • Written by: Peter Walters, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Queensland
a partial defence of the hipsterThe independent owner-operated businesses that bring life to run-down neighbourhoods often have a hipster ethos.Peter Walters, Author provided

One of the stark differences between neighbourhoods in the inner city and outer suburbs in Australia is the quality and type of retail offerings. Gentrifying inner-city suburbs – places like West End...

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What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes

  • Written by: Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophesThe Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010 killed 11 workers and caused the greatest environmental disaster in US history. Banking regulators can learn from the penalities introduced to motivate executive interest in putting safety first. EPA/US Coast Guard/Handout , CC BY-NC-SA

In its interim report published four months ago, the Banking Royal...

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  1. Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans
  2. Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school
  3. Why slow TV deserves our (divided) attention
  4. A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions
  5. Coalition gains in first Newspoll of 2019, but big swings to Labor in Victorian seats; NSW is tied
  6. Agriculture Department refuses release of live sheep video as FOI shows heat stress suffering
  7. what is an Interpol red notice and how does it work?
  8. how to make our homes comfortable without cranking up the aircon
  9. Not another online petition! But here's why you should think before deleting it
  10. Sperm donation is testing what it means to be a legal parent, all the way to the High Court
  11. Here's what happens to our plastic recycling when it goes offshore
  12. how conservation law is failing the black-throated finch
  13. How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination
  14. how groups and individuals spread racist hate online
  15. Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon
  16. what causes bloating and gassiness?
  17. Why Trump's wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy
  18. Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer's heatwave in NZ
  19. The off-topic Conversation #174
  20. how did spoken language start?
  21. No surplus, no share market growth, no lift in wage growth. Economic survey points to bleaker times post-election
  22. Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will
  23. Flying taxis within five years? Not likely
  24. Australian school stories on screen
  25. Back at school? Here's how to keep kids free of head lice
  26. To predict droughts, don't look at the skies. Look in the soil... from space
  27. Morrison commits to 1.25 million new jobs over five years
  28. View from The Hill: Independent push against Frydenberg
  29. Too big to fail. The risks to Australian taxpayers from New Zealand banks
  30. The 'sharing economy' simply dresses up our consumerist tendencies in a more palatable ideology
  31. is it safe to run while pregnant?
  32. what's it like and how can it be made better?
  33. María, a slave in Manila who resisted sexual exploitation
  34. Lift teacher status to improve student performance
  35. Two more Morrison ministers head for the door
  36. Cave rescue heroes share Australian of the Year
  37. Australian-Chinese author's detention raises important questions about China's motivations
  38. Geosiris is an early contender for Sexiest Plant of 2019
  39. Beware of Pity is beautiful to watch, but clashes with modern sensibilities
  40. Michelle Grattan on Morrison's first political plays of 2019
  41. Drinking water study raises health concerns for New Zealanders
  42. Higher English entry standards for international students won't necessarily translate to success
  43. We're awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people
  44. New research reveals our complex attitudes to Australia Day
  45. Why people born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of measles – and what to do about it
  46. Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builder
  47. The stubborn high-pressure system behind Australia's record heatwaves
  48. To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now
  49. Australia's trade history really is something to celebrate
  50. Liberals stir the culture war pot but who's listening?

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