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Eulogy for a seastar, Australia's first recorded marine extinction

  • Written by: Tim O'Hara, Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria
Eulogy for a seastar, Australia's first recorded marine extinctionThe Derwent River Sea Star was only documented for 25 years before its extinction.Blair Patulo, Museums Victoria, CC BY-NC

We see the surface of the sea: the rock pools, the waves, the horizon. But there is so much more going on underneath, hidden from view.

The sea’s surface conceals human impact as well. Today, I am writing a eulogy to the...

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Morrison's challenge with women goes beyond simple numbers

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

Mutual interest is a great bonding agent, so the bromance between 2GB shock jock Ray Hadley and Scott Morrison is on again.

Morrison will once more make regular appearances with Hadley, who dumped him unceremoniously last year, with a spurious excuse, because he considered him too boring.

As treasurer Morrison was “captive to cabinet...

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antipsychotic drugs are rarely effective in 'calming' dementia patients

  • Written by: Juanita Westbury, Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania
antipsychotic drugs are rarely effective in 'calming' dementia patientsPeople with dementia often experience a range of psychological symptoms and behaviour changes.from shutterstock.com

From time to time, we hear or read about medical procedures or treatments that can be ineffective and needlessly drive up the nation’s health-care costs. This occasional series explores such procedures individually and explains...

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How understanding animal behaviour can liberate us from gender inequality

  • Written by: Beatrice Alba, Research Fellow, La Trobe University
How understanding animal behaviour can liberate us from gender inequalityOn average, women tend to behave more submissively than men. Tam Wai/Unsplash, CC BY

Gender inequality is very real in 2018.

Australian parliament is a toxic place for women. Women in the media and science are targeted and harassed because of their gender. Male domination of women occurs at an interpersonal level, and in our everyday interactions.

Bu...

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  2. Why NZ's emissions trading scheme should have an auction reserve price
  3. World politics explainer: the Iranian Revolution
  4. Why it's time to end the culture of bullying on reality TV
  5. New research shows Australian teens have complex views on religion and spirituality
  6. There's a gap between what people expect when they report cybercrime, and what police can deliver
  7. Giving environmental water to drought-stricken farmers sounds straightforward, but it's a bad idea
  8. Rising cyclist death toll is mainly due to drivers, so change the road laws and culture
  9. which one is most to blame when it comes to weight gain?
  10. It's hard to make money in aged care, and that's part of the problem
  11. The Beehive, a documentary in 1,344 versions, explores the unsolved murder of Juanita Nielsen
  12. Australian tertiary education funding is not as low as it seems in OECD metrics
  13. Morrison tells Liberal organisation to act on bullying after second woman flags she'll quit
  14. Labor's lead shrinks in federal Ipsos, but grows in Victorian Galaxy; Trump's ratings slip
  15. university publishing houses and the national creative estate
  16. Twenty-five years after the Oslo Accords, the prospect of peace in the Middle East remains bleak
  17. Essential reading to get your head around Australia's aged care crisis
  18. How do you know that we aren't in virtual reality right now?
  19. After a long struggle, the Uniting Church becomes the first to offer same-sex marriage
  20. Young Australians' prospects still come down to where they grow up
  21. An artist's surreal view of Australia – created from satellite data captured 700km above Earth
  22. Daily low-dose aspirin doesn't reduce heart-attack risk in healthy people
  23. the rise and rise of an unlikely hero
  24. Why yet another visa for farm work makes no sense
  25. How better tests and legal deterrence could clean up the sticky mess left behind by fake honey row
  26. Morrison faces the challenge of community-based candidate in Wentworth
  27. Outrage over schoolgirl refusing to stand for anthem shows rise of aggressive nationalism
  28. It's hard to spread the idiot fruit
  29. Evictions versus holdouts. How to painlessly dissolve a strata title
  30. Michelle Grattan on the Liberal pick for Wentworth and Morrison's bad week
  31. New law won't safeguard medicine supply – it'll only ensure we know there's a shortage
  32. Vital for life, heat and power – what you never knew about salt water
  33. How Indigenous women have become targets in a domestic violence system intended to protect them
  34. Wentworth preselectors' rebuff to Morrison caps week of mayhem
  35. Once upon a time ... 'sleeping beauties' and the importance of storytelling in science
  36. who owns a family's story? Why it's time to lift the Berndt field notes embargo
  37. Vital signs. When cutting interest rates might not help
  38. Gender diversity is more accepted in society, but using the pronoun 'they' still divides
  39. We mapped cancer rates across Australia – search for your postcode here
  40. We need more flexible housing for 21st-century lives
  41. Year 11 and 12 students in NSW will no longer learn about women's contributions to physics
  42. How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle? Typically just 14 pieces
  43. Cathy McGowan and Rebekha Sharkie on the role of community candidates
  44. you're gonna need a bigger rope to tie down this alien hunter
  45. As Witness K trial opens, questions over how much of Timor-Leste spying case to keep secret from public
  46. knee arthroscopy is one of the most common but least effective surgeries
  47. Independent isn't necessarily better. Why appointing independent directors can achieve little
  48. Sharing your meter data might help cut your power bill, but it needs secure regulation
  49. the poetry of Rosemary Dobson
  50. World politics explainer: The Holocaust

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