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With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?

  • Written by: Greg Raymond, Research fellow, Australian National University
With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?China's rising influence in the region has alarmed many defence experts. But the question remains: would Australia ever need to fight China on its own?Joel Carrett/AAP

There is no evidence that China has ever contemplated using its nuclear weapons to coerce another state. Instead, China has maintained a “no first use policy” on nuclear...

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It's hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too

  • Written by: Joseph Ibrahim, Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University
It's hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused tooEliminating sexual abuse in nursing homes is a major challenge.from shutterstock.com

We don’t often think of older women being victims of sexual assault, but such assaults occur in many settings and circumstances, including in nursing homes. Our research, published this week in the journal Legal Medicine, analysed 28 forensic medical...

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It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works

  • Written by: Ozren Bogdanovic, Lab Head-Developmental Epigenomics and Senior Research Fellow, Garvan Institute
It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works'Amphy' has features of both simple and more complex forms of life – and so can help us understand important steps in evolution. from www.shutterstock.com

Today a large international consortium of researchers published a complex but important study looking at how DNA works in animals. The research focused on a marine organism, a creature...

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Households to get $2000 subsidy for batteries under Shorten energy policy

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

A Labor government would subsidise households to install batteries as part of the ALP’s energy policy to be unveiled by Bill Shorten on Thursday.

If Labor wins next year’s election, it would provide from 2020 a A$2000 rebate for 100,000 households, with annual incomes of less than $180,000, to buy and install battery systems. It would...

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  4. Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research
  5. An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger
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