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forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)

  • Written by: Madeleine De Gabriele, Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment
forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Giant eucalypts play an irreplaceable part in many of Australia’s ecosystems. These towering elders develop hollows, which make them nature’s high-rises, housing everything from endangered squirrel-gliders to lace monitors. Over 300 species of vertebrates in Australia depend on hollows in large...

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The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security

  • Written by: Robert Merkel, Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
The government's encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over securityLaw enforcement agencies can force access to your encrypted systems.Flickr/Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY

After being caught up in the broader drama of the last day of Parliament for 2018, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 passed both houses on Thursday, with the support of the Coalition and...

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Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Michelle Grattan on a chaotic final week of parliament for 2018The final day of parliament was just like the other sitting days of 2018: chaotic.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Michelle Grattan talks with University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Deep Saini about the week in politics, including the government’s threat that misbehaving energy companies will be broken up, Malcolm Turnbull spruiking...

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The problems with small satellites – and what Australia's Space Agency can do to help

  • Written by: Duncan Blake, PhD candidate, law and military uses of outer space, University of Adelaide

Australia is part of the global explosion in space industries – including the design and engineering of satellites smaller than a loaf of bread.

But we’re at a point now where we need to take the next step.

The growing number of small satellites orbiting Earth presents some unique challenges, such as interference with communication...

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  1. Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth
  2. The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster
  3. how working parents manage school holidays and their jobs
  4. Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content
  5. Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter
  6. love hurts – on a life of sports fandom
  7. Men get postnatal depression too, and as the mother's main support, they need help
  8. Darwin port's sale is a blueprint for China's future economic expansion
  9. 35 extraordinary years. What the float of Australian dollar bought us
  10. Are the tech giants taking over as your city leaders?
  11. Remembering Pearl Harbor and America's entry into the theatre of war
  12. Perth's brief abalone season is a time of delicacies and danger
  13. Hokey-pokey politics as the government is shaken all about
  14. Infant formula companies are behind the guidelines on milk allergy, and their sales are soaring
  15. George Bush Sr could have got in on the ground floor of climate action – history would have thanked him
  16. Covering Trump, funding news and the rise of impunity. The Guardian's Kath Viner on the big media stories of 2018
  17. Voters are crying out for better government but have mixed views on how to achieve it
  18. Thanks for the $2 billion for small-business expansion; now all we need are plans to expand
  19. Student protests show Australian education does get some things right
  20. Mythmaking, social media and the truth about Leonard Cohen's last letter to Marianne Ihlen
  21. Will Hayne blink? The problems with banks demand tough measures that neither they nor their regulators want
  22. Protecting our digital heritage in the age of cyber threats
  23. renewables reduce energy prices (yes, even in South Australia)
  24. Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
  25. How sport can tackle violence against women and girls
  26. Explainer: what does 'gaslighting' mean?
  27. I'm having surgery in a public hospital. Will a junior doctor operate on me?
  28. Don’t be too quick to dismiss ‘dying trades’, those skills are still in demand
  29. Looking past the hype about 'trackless trams'
  30. Political impasse stops protection for LGBT students passing this year
  31. what happens when marketing communications don't match corporate practice
  32. Australian women in STEM look to 2019
  33. Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue
  34. Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW
  35. In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil
  36. How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play
  37. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  38. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  39. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  40. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  41. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  42. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  43. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  44. how cities can make room for water
  45. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  46. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  47. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  48. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  49. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  50. free speech and Australian universities

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