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Why do people get cancer?

  • Written by: Darren Saunders, Associate professor, UNSW
Why do people get cancer?A lot of people have spent a very long time wondering what causes cancer -- and scientists still can't say for certain why an individual person might have it.Marina del Castell/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All...

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The foreign donations bill will soon be law

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
The foreign donations bill will soon be lawThe former Labor senator Sam Dastyari whose links to China set off the firestorm over foreign donations that led to the bill before parliament.Joel Carrett/AAP

After months of protracted negotiations between the political parties, the foreign donations bill has passed both houses of parliament and is set to be signed into law by the...

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André Rieu gives his audience exactly what they want: entertainment

  • Written by: David Larkin, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney
André Rieu gives his audience exactly what they want: entertainmentAndré Rieu performs in his Sydney Town Hall performance. André Rieu Productions

Review: André Rieu, Sydney


The phenomenon that is André Rieu was in Sydney last week, an event which gave rise to strong feelings pro and contra. Among musicians, his slick entertainments are at best grudgingly recognised as savvy...

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Tassie devils' decline has left a feast of carrion for feral cats

  • Written by: Calum Cunningham, PhD candidate, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania
Tassie devils' decline has left a feast of carrion for feral catsHealthy Tasmanian devil populations have cornered the market on carrion.Menna Elizabeth Jones, Author provided

The decline of Tasmanian devils is having an unusual knock-on effect: animal carcasses would once have been gobbled up in short order by devils are now taking many days longer to disappear.

We made the discovery, published today in the...

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  12. In crime reporting, we should ask better questions about the relevance of religion and ethnicity
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