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Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdue

  • Written by: Anthony Uhlmann, Director, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Gerald Murnane's Prime Minister's Literary award is long overdueGerald Murnane has long been recognised as one of Australia’s finest writers. Ben Denham

I first came to Border Districts through a brief description of it given to me by Gerald Murnane when I first met him three years ago. I thought he had told me that he did not think it was as complex as another work he wrote around the same time, A...

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Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSW

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Historical fall of Liberal seats in Victoria; micros likely to win ten seats in upper house; Labor leads in NSWVictorian Liberal leadership hopeful John Pesutto has lost his blue-ribbon seat of Hawthorn. AAP/David Crosling

While it is possible that two seats could change, Labor appears to have won 56 of the 88 seats in the Victorian lower house, up nine seats since the 2014 election, the Coalition won 26 seats (down 12), the Greens three seats (up one) and...

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In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soil

  • Written by: Alex McBratney, Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science; Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney
In 100 years' time, maybe our food won't be grown in soilSoil is a non-renewable part of the environment. Can it sustain food production for our growing population?www.shutterstock.com, CC BY

It takes a lot to make a room of soil scientists gasp.

Last month, I presented at the National Soils Conference in Canberra, and asked 400 colleagues a simple question: do you think soil will play as significant a...

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How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to play

  • Written by: Keith Rathbone, Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
How a race scare left South Sudanese star basketballers with nowhere to playPlayers from all over the world, including Australia's star forward Thon Maker - originally from South Sudan - play in the National Basketball Association in the United States.Tannen Maury/EPA

One of Australia’s most successful youth basketball organisations, the South Sudanese Australian Basketball Association, was forced to cancel their...

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  1. the evolution of the Australian wine label
  2. Who made Australia's first ever bank deposit? Here's our unsettling discovery
  3. Australians' trust in politicians and democracy hits an all-time low: new research
  4. What younger people can learn from older people about using technology
  5. Making Australia a renewable energy exporting superpower
  6. researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature
  7. Meet the remote Indigenous community where a few thousand people use 15 different languages
  8. how cities can make room for water
  9. How parents and teachers can identify and help young people self-medicating trauma with drugs and alcohol
  10. How Twitter got blindsided by India’s still-toxic caste system
  11. New research reveals how Australian journalists are faring four years after redundancy
  12. Malcolm Turnbull and his NEG continue to haunt the government
  13. Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here's why
  14. free speech and Australian universities
  15. Here's the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)
  16. Operatic goddess Vivica Genaux reigns supreme in a lyrical study of conflicting desires
  17. Getting to the heart of coal seam gas protests – it's not just the technical risks
  18. NZ is home to species found nowhere else but biodiversity losses match global crisis
  19. Why autonomous vehicles won't reduce our dependence on cars in cities
  20. what it is and why it needs updating
  21. Australians think immigration should be cut? Well, it depends on how you ask
  22. here's how we avoid feeling guilty
  23. I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
  24. Fracking policies are wildly inconsistent across Australia, from gung-ho development to total bans
  25. Escher x nendo will surprise, delight and challenge
  26. Health impacts and murky decision-making feed public distrust of projects like WestConnex
  27. New detections of gravitational waves brings the number to 11 – so far
  28. Liberals adopt new rule to stop the revolving prime ministership
  29. Craig Kelly triumphs in the 'outwit, outplay, outlast' game of Survivor
  30. Adani's new mini version of its mega mine still faces some big hurdles
  31. what is nitrous oxide (or nangs) and how dangerous is it?
  32. G20 summit bring a truce in US-China trade relations – but it's likely to be temporary
  33. What existed before the Big Bang? Did something have to be there to go boom?
  34. Turnbull versus Morrison in Liberal crisis over Craig Kelly
  35. why more older Australians are living in share houses
  36. Yes, you can adopt a pet as a Christmas gift – so long as you do it correctly
  37. It's not just Newstart. Single parents are $271 per fortnight worse off. Labor needs an overarching welfare review
  38. How a candidate's looks may be swinging your vote (without you even realising it)
  39. why you might get the runs before a first date
  40. the origins of Rocky Horror's Frank-N-furter
  41. At last, Australia has a Modern Slavery Act. Here's what you'll need to know
  42. As they meet in Poland for the next steps, nations are struggling to agree on how the ambitions of the Paris Agreement can be realised
  43. Why battery-powered vehicles stack up better than hydrogen
  44. Yes, Knickers the steer is really, really big. But he's far short of true genetic freak status
  45. Why Tony Abbott's appointment as Indigenous envoy was a diplomatic blunder and policy failure
  46. Warty hammer orchids are sexual deceivers
  47. the science of sleep and the economics of sleeplessness
  48. Michelle Grattan on the government's week from hell
  49. Why Australia's anti-vilification laws matter
  50. Stone tools date early humans in North Africa to 2.4 million years ago

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