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Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?

  • Written by: Jane Tiller, Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser - Public Health Genomics, Monash University
Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?Genetic information is relevant not only for an individual, but also their blood relatives, because it's often hereditary.Joshua Reddekopp/Unsplash

A woman recently sued a London hospital for doctors not disclosing that her father had the genetic mutation that causes Huntington disease – a neurodegenerative disorder. The woman was pregnant at...

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How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship

  • Written by: Rayner Thwaites, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenshipThe proposed amendments also remove protections against rendering a person stateless.Shutterstock

Last month, the federal government introduced a bill into parliament that, if passed, will make it easier to strip an Australian of citizenship by:

  • making lesser offences a trigger for deprivation
  • dropping the requirement that, to trigger deprivation, a...

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We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it instead

  • Written by: Jack Pezzey, Senior Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
We can't know the future cost of climate change. Let's focus on the cost of avoiding it insteadEconomists have searched for the mythical balance between the cost of climate action, and the future cost of doing nothing.Joop Hoek/Shutterstock.com

As delegates at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, discuss the possibility of restraining global warming to 1.5℃, it might sound like a reasonable question to ask how much money it will...

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The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival

  • Written by: Brendan Wintle, Professor Conservation Ecology, University of Melbourne
The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survivalA kangaroo finds refuge in a small patch of vegetation surrounded by a new housing estate.Georgia Garrard, Author provided

It may not look like a pristine expanse of Amazon rainforest or an African savannah, but the patch of bush at the end of the street could be one of the only places on the planet that harbour a particular species of endangered...

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