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Karm Gilespie's case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations

  • Written by Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Karm Gilespie's case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relationsShutterstock

The case of Australian Karm Gilespie, who has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court on drugs charges pending an appeal, cannot be separated from a recent souring in Sino-Australian relations.

Gilespie was reportedly arrested with 7.5 kilograms of ice in his luggage in 2013, while attempting to leave China.

His arrest clearly...

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Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female

  • Written by Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University
Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be femaleItalian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station.NASA

Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women.

NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the Moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 years of human spaceflight, women are still in the...

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Australia's decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit

  • Written by Becky Freeman, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney

The decision, handed down on June 9 by the World Trade Organisation’s appeals body, that Australia’s plain packaging tobacco control policy doesn’t flout WTO laws marks the end of almost a decade of legal wrangling over this landmark public health policy. And more importantly, it paves the way for other nations around the world...

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'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating

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

Scott Morrison is casting himself as the “can-do” prime minister, and what’s notable is how he is forging institutions around his style.

The national cabinet was born of the COVID crisis, but has been made permanent with a broader purpose; Morrison is determined it will have less bureaucracy than surrounded the former Council of...

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