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Scott Morrison eases refugee policy while talking tough

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

There is an interesting and notable point of detail about the “lifetime ban” legislation that remains a sticking point in the argument between the government and Labor over the resettling of offshore refugees in New Zealand.

The ban would not apply to the refugee children. The bill – which has so far failed the hurdle of the...

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Barnaby Joyce on facing the drought and rural women

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

Some in the Nationals would like Barnaby Joyce back in the leadership before the election. Joyce speaking to The Conversation repeats that if the leadership were offered, he would be up for it - though he insists he is not canvassing.

But his critics think he would have a “woman problem” - and Joyce acknowledges that to win support back...

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As children are airlifted from Nauru, a cruel and inhumane policy may finally be ending

  • Written by: Alex Reilly, Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide
As children are airlifted from Nauru, a cruel and inhumane policy may finally be endingIf refugee and asylum seekers are not resettled in Australia, the humanitarian crisis will only worsen.AAP/Jeremy Ng

Australia’s off-shore detention policy is unravelling. Predictably, after five years of detention, the mental health of adults and children who have been left in indefinite detention on Nauru is collapsing. On Monday, 11...

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'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downside

  • Written by: Adam Frew, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Charles Sturt University
'Soil probiotics' promise bigger, healthier crops, but there's a downsideCrops, soils and fungus are a tricky mix.Jan Kroon, CC BY

More than half the world’s plant-derived energy intake comes from just three crops: rice, wheat and maize. These crops, like most land plants, live in an evolutionarily ancient partnership with a certain type of fungus, called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

These fungi penetrate...

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  1. The English-only NT parliament is undermining healthy democracy by excluding Aboriginal languages
  2. A priest says sceptics should stop demanding proof of climate change, as that's not how science works
  3. Requiem or renewal? This is how a tropical city like Darwin can regain its cool
  4. Helping farmers in distress doesn't help them be the best: the drought relief dilemma
  5. How your smartphone or wearable device could forecast illness
  6. Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?
  7. Australian literature’s legacies of cultural appropriation
  8. Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by Coalition
  9. Chocolate Labradors die earlier than yellow or black, and have more disease
  10. Decoding the music masterpieces: Rossini's opera, Otello
  11. Why children in institutional care may be worse off now than they were in the 19th century
  12. how much physical activity is enough in older age?
  13. Why do flies vomit on their food?
  14. The five stages of grief don't come in fixed steps – everyone feels differently
  15. The national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse matters. Here's why
  16. is the Coalition spending '$1 billion extra, every year' on aged care?
  17. David Goldblatt's kind, calm photographs of South Africa exist in a morality minefield
  18. Nauru's life on the frontlines
  19. Some cybersecurity apps could be worse for privacy than nothing at all
  20. Turning 'big brother' surveillance into a helping hand to the homeless
  21. Wentworth mightn't be typical but it's the shrill canary in the mine
  22. Phelps consolidates her lead in Wentworth after nail biting day
  23. what is a hung parliament and how would it affect the passage of legislation?
  24. Wentworth byelection called too early for Phelps as Liberals recover in late counting
  25. Australia's native rhododendrons hide in the high mountain forests
  26. Liberals trounced in huge Wentworth swing, bringing a hung parliament
  27. William Forsythe's A Quiet Evening of Dance is surprising, amusing, but precise
  28. what's on the menu for Australia's top predator?
  29. With a billion reasons not to trust super trustees, we need regulators to act in the public interest
  30. One year on for Ardern's coalition government in New Zealand
  31. When Thailand and Australia were closer neighbours, tectonically speaking
  32. climate snake oil or the 1.5-degree panacea?
  33. Michelle Grattan on Morrison's pitch for the Jewish vote in Wentworth
  34. Pacific nations aren't cash-hungry, minister, they just want action on climate change
  35. the bacteria that live in and on us
  36. With the right help, bears can recover from the torture of bile farming
  37. family as 'brand' – the rise of the digital mumpreneur
  38. The Morrison government's biggest economic problem? Climate change denial
  39. Please don't dismiss the PC inquiry into mental health as 'just another inquiry'
  40. A Goblin could guide us to a mystery planet thought to exist in the Solar system
  41. this is what needs to be done to make a Central City CBD work
  42. the housing market might deflate, but it might pop. Here's how
  43. Scott Morrison braces for judgement by Malcolm Turnbull's old voters
  44. How rare minerals form when meteorites slam into Earth
  45. 15% of students admit to buying essays. What can universities do about it?
  46. Criticism of Western Civilisation isn't new, it was part of the Enlightenment
  47. don't bet the house on it
  48. More than a habit? When to worry about nail biting, skin picking and other body-focused repetitive behaviours
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  50. The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes

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