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Exploring Australia's 'other reefs' south of Tasmania

  • Written by: Nic Bax, Director, NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub, CSIRO
Exploring Australia's 'other reefs' south of TasmaniaSolenosmilia coral reef with unidentified solitary yellow corals.CSIRO

Off southern Tasmania, at depths between 700 and 1,500 metres, more than 100 undersea mountains provide rocky pedestals for deep-sea coral reefs.

Unlike shallow tropical corals, deep-sea corals live in a cold environment without sunlight or symbiotic algae. They feed on tiny...

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Theatre is Lying is a welcome response to fake news and alternative facts

  • Written by: Julie Shiels, Lecturer - School of Art, RMIT University
Theatre is Lying is a welcome response to fake news and alternative factsAnna Breckon and Nat Randall, Rear view 2018 (still), high definition digital video, multi-channel sound, 85:11 mins Courtesy of the artists Photo: Andrew Curtis

Review: Theatre is Lying, ACCA, Melbourne.


In an era where local and international politics risks being less believable than a long-form TV series like House of Cards, it is apposite that...

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how to deal with dying during the holidays

  • Written by: Karen Anderson, Practitioner Scholar, Edith Cowan University
how to deal with dying during the holidaysKnowing death is coming but not knowing when is particularly unsettling.Osman Rana/Unsplash

Dying doesn’t disappear at Christmas. For those who know death will come soon but don’t know exactly when, the festive season, when the air is thick with “joy”, can be particularly unsettling.

As a psychotherapist working in...

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Michael McCormack fails leadership test in handling of Broad scandal

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

It took disgraced Nationals MP Andrew Broad 24 hours after the “sugar baby” story broke to announce the inevitable - that he won’t recontest his Victorian seat of Mallee. They do things slowly in the Nationals.

In Michael McCormack’s case, at glacial pace. The Nationals leader’s handling of the Broad scandal has been...

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  1. Tanya Plibersek on a united Labor
  2. Labor widens lead in Ipsos; US Democrats gained 40 House seats at midterms
  3. Labor's housing pledge is welcome, but direct investment in social housing would improve it
  4. Tidelands struggles to stay afloat in its first series
  5. Rudd says Murdoch media is a "political party"
  6. We finally have the rulebook for the Paris Agreement, but global climate action is still inadequate
  7. New guidelines for responding to cyber attacks don't go far enough
  8. MYEFO rips A$130 million per year from research funding despite budget surplus
  9. What's your beef? How 'carbon labels' can steer us towards environmentally friendly food choices
  10. Why naming all our mozzies is important for fighting disease
  11. how gift-giving is inspired by beliefs-based altruism
  12. why people follow what other people do
  13. a history of St Nicholas, Santa and his helpers
  14. We need to talk about the actual threats to academic freedom on Australian campuses
  15. National Andrew Broad forced to quit frontbench amid 'sugar baby' allegation
  16. More mirage than good management, MYEFO fails to hit its own targets
  17. Shorten pledges $500 million for UNHCR in border protection policy
  18. how do people know what the weather will be?
  19. Morrison's decision to recognise West Jerusalem the latest bad move in a mess of his own making
  20. MYEFO reveals billions more in revenue, $9 billion in fresh election tax cuts
  21. Having a second child worsens parents' mental health: new research
  22. Children's health hit for six as industry fails to regulate alcohol ads
  23. How to have yourself a plastic-free Christmas
  24. how to keep your kids safe (and out of trouble) when you’re at work these holidays
  25. The great movie scenes: Back to the Future
  26. lessons in how towns remake challenging sites
  27. 2018 was a huge year in gaming
  28. Morrison goes a bridge too far to outsmart Shorten
  29. Labor promises a comprehensive overhaul of federal environmental framework
  30. NSW Governor David Hurley will be Australia's new Governor-General
  31. Shorten's subsidy plan to boost affordable housing
  32. Government hopes Jerusalem compromise will smooth Indonesian trade deal
  33. It's despair, not depression, that's responsible for Indigenous suicide
  34. Can the Big Bash League's backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?
  35. Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out
  36. Women don't speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do
  37. Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland's coast
  38. How to narrow the gap between Ardern's foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate
  39. It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
  40. How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face
  41. Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)
  42. back to Moore River and finding family
  43. Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions
  44. No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia's 'asset recycling' misdirection
  45. Monday's MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track
  46. Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats
  47. one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health
  48. Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to 'eat, drink and be merry' this Christmas
  49. The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC
  50. In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom

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