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how Australia's wine industry can adapt to climate change

  • Written by Gabi Mocatta, Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
how Australia's wine industry can adapt to climate changeVictor Fraile/Reuters

Many Australians enjoy a glass of homegrown wine, and A$2.78 billion worth is exported each year. But hotter, drier conditions under climate change means there are big changes ahead for our wine producers.

As climate scientists and science communicators, we’ve been working closely with the wine industry to understand the...

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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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  1. 'Can do' Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating
  2. Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere
  3. Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires
  4. is time travel possible for humans?
  5. what is branch stacking, and why has neither major party been able to stamp it out?
  6. We don't know if breastfeeding is rising or falling in Australia. That's bad for everyone
  7. what we can learn from the successes of post-war reconstruction
  8. Getting vaccinated at the pharmacy? Make sure it's recorded properly
  9. international students make up more than 30% of population in some Australian suburbs
  10. We may live to regret open-slather construction stimulus
  11. Universities and government need to rethink their relationship with each other before it's too late
  12. Using cannabis during pregnancy could be bad news for your baby: new research
  13. experts react to plans to release 2 million fish into the Murray Darling
  14. Disadvantaged students may have lost 1 month of learning during COVID-19 shutdown. But the government can fix it
  15. The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready
  16. the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest
  17. what seniors want instead of retirement villages and how to achieve it
  18. Psycho turns 60 – Hitchcock's famous fright film broke all the rules
  19. Morrison commits another $1.5 billion for infrastructure
  20. 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest
  21. Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account
  22. The coastal banksia has its roots in ancient Gondwana
  23. Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour.
  24. Michelle Grattan on protests, social-distancing, and domestic borders
  25. Bob Santamaria, 'the most significant' figure in Australian politics never to have been in parliament
  26. Tear gas and pepper spray are chemical weapons. So, why can police use them?
  27. taking a wrecking ball to monuments – contemporary art can ask what really needs tearing down
  28. What makes pepper spray so intense? And is it a tear gas? A chemical engineer explains
  29. why 'the marketplace for ideas' can fail – from an economist's perspective
  30. New NSW building law could be a game changer for apartment safety
  31. Should I wear a mask on public transport?
  32. The state removal of Māori children from their families is a wound that won't heal – but there is a way forward
  33. 3 things international students want Australians to know
  34. 120 million years ago, giant crocodiles walked on two legs in what is now South Korea
  35. An El Niño hit this banana prawn fishery hard. Here’s what we can learn from their experience
  36. 4 ways a smart government can create jobs and cut emissions
  37. Protests add new element of uncertainty to COVID exit
  38. Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate
  39. employers requisitioned our homes and our time
  40. TV has changed, so must the way we support local content
  41. Ten Twitter accounts you should be following if you want to listen to Indigenous Australians and learn
  42. what the AFL and NRL need to turn sport into show business
  43. Australia needs to confront its history of white privilege to provide a level playing field for all
  44. could bacteria in a capsule protect us from coronavirus and other respiratory infections?
  45. My baby has 'tongue-tie'. Should I be worried?
  46. with 100 days to go, can Jacinda Ardern maintain her extraordinary popularity?
  47. How a stone wedged in a gum tree shows the resilience of Aboriginal culture in Australia
  48. University students aren't cogs in a market. They need more than a narrow focus on 'skills'
  49. At least 1,241 tonnes of microplastics are dumped into Aussie farmland every year from wastewater sludge
  50. how the government shaped a blokey lockdown followed by a blokey recovery
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