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Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right

  • Written by: James Hereward, Research fellow, The University of Queensland
Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation rightThe tomatoes we eat have been carefully bred over generations, but now we can tap into wild varieties.Pixabay/go_see, CC BY

The crops we rely on today have been bred over thousands of years to enhance certain characteristics. For example, sweetcorn started life as a wild grass called teosinte.

But every time we select for a trait through breeding...

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The fair go is a fading dream, but don't write it off

  • Written by: Garry Barrett, Professor and Head of School, School of Economics, University of Sydney

This article is the first in the Reclaiming the Fair Go series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and the Sydney Peace Foundation to mark the awarding of the 2018 Sydney Peace Prize to Nobel laureate and economics professor Joseph Stiglitz. These articles reflect on the crisis caused by economic inequality and...

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foreign donations and political influence

  • Written by: Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
foreign donations and political influenceNew Zealand opposition and National Party leader Simon Bridges speaking to reporters, following allegations about his handling of a political donations by former senior whip Jami-Lee Ross. AAP/Boris Jancic, CC BY-ND

New Zealand’s opposition National Party is embroiled in a rolling controversy that erupted last week when former National MP...

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Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conversion

  • Written by: Stuart Richards, Researcher and Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
Boy Erased is a safe and predictable take on the horrors of gay conversionLucas Hedges and Théodore Pellerin in Boy Erased. The film shows a boy who enters gay conversion therapy in the US. IMDB

I always try my hardest to go into every film with an open mind and not write off anything before I see it. This was particularly hard to do with Joel Edgerton’s Boy Erased. I was trepidatious about going to see the...

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  1. Why is a magpie's poo black and white?
  2. The internet has done a lot, but so far little for economic growth
  3. the myth that obscures the real problem
  4. New research shines light on sexual violence at Australian music festivals
  5. What is 'quality' in aged care? Here's what studies (and our readers) say
  6. Do chatbots have a role to play in suicide prevention?
  7. Working out what makes a good community where young children can thrive
  8. We must look past short-term drought solutions and improve the land itself
  9. Scott Morrison eases refugee policy while talking tough
  10. Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women
  11. As children are airlifted from Nauru, a cruel and inhumane policy may finally be ending
  12. 'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downside
  13. The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
  14. A priest says sceptics should stop demanding proof of climate change, as that's not how science works
  15. Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool
  16. Helping farmers in distress doesn't help them be the best: the drought relief dilemma
  17. How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illness
  18. Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?
  19. Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation
  20. Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by Coalition
  21. Chocolate Labradors die earlier than yellow or black, and have more disease
  22. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini's opera, Otello
  23. Why children in institutional care may be worse off now than they were in the 19th century
  24. how much physical activity is enough in older age?
  25. Why do flies vomit on their food?
  26. The five stages of grief don't come in fixed steps – everyone feels differently
  27. The national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse matters. Here's why
  28. is the Coalition spending '$1 billion extra, every year' on aged care?
  29. David Goldblatt's kind, calm photographs of South Africa exist in a morality minefield
  30. Nauru's life on the frontlines
  31. Some cybersecurity apps could be worse for privacy than nothing at all
  32. Turning 'big brother' surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless
  33. Wentworth mightn't be typical but it's the shrill canary in the mine
  34. Phelps consolidates her lead in Wentworth after nail biting day
  35. what is a hung parliament and how would it affect the passage of legislation?
  36. Wentworth byelection called too early for Phelps as Liberals recover in late counting
  37. Australia's native rhododendrons hide in the high mountain forests
  38. Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth swing, bringing a hung parliament
  39. William Forsythe's A Quiet Evening of Dance is surprising, amusing, but precise
  40. what's on the menu for Australia's top predator?
  41. With a billion reasons not to trust super trustees, we need regulators to act in the public interest
  42. One year on for Ardern's coalition government in New Zealand
  43. When Thailand and Australia were closer neighbours, tectonically speaking
  44. climate snake oil or the 1.5-degree panacea?
  45. Michelle Grattan on Morrison's pitch for the Jewish vote in Wentworth
  46. Pacific nations aren't cash-hungry, minister, they just want action on climate change
  47. the bacteria that live in and on us
  48. With the right help, bears can recover from the torture of bile farming
  49. family as 'brand' – the rise of the digital mumpreneur
  50. The Morrison government's biggest economic problem? Climate change denial

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