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The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiIt's been more than 70 years since an atomic weapon was used in warfare, but the global nuclear weapons stockpile still stands at more than 14,000 warheads.U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

This is the second in a series of explainers on key moments in the past 100 years of world political history. In it, our authors examine how and...

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Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?

  • Written by: Charlotte-Rose Millar, UQ Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?A medieval engraving of the persecution of witches: historians are increasingly demonstrating that belief in witchcraft survived in Western Europe well into the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries. Wikimedia Commons

Between 1450 and 1750, some 45,000 men, women and children were executed in Western Europe as accused witches. Today, emerging new...

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Introducing land rent, the ACT's excellent idea for making houses cheaper

  • Written by: Cameron Murray, Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
Introducing land rent, the ACT's excellent idea for making houses cheaperIn Canberra you can build on land you don't own.Shutterstock

Australian home prices have risen 60% in the past five years. That’s great news for the seven million households who own one.

But at the same time three million Australian households pay a total of $50 billion per year in rent. The more prices rise, the further away their dreams of...

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Facebook's new video 'Watch' option enters an already crowded market

  • Written by: Marc C-Scott, Lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
Facebook's new video 'Watch' option enters an already crowded marketThe Facebook Watch logo now appears on mobile apps.The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Facebook’s global launch of its Watch video service fragments an already crowded market of video-on-demand available in Australia.

The service was first launched in the US 12 months ago. At last week’s global launch, Facebook’s head of video, Fidji Simo,...

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  1. Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer says Liberals were "subject to threats" in leadership battle
  2. To whack the CFMMEU, Morrison needs first to get the right stick
  3. What is fake honey and why didn’t the official tests pick it up?
  4. When I met James Mirrlees, perhaps the word's greatest tax theorist
  5. Should writers only write what they know? What I learned from my research
  6. how has it come to this in Western democracies?
  7. Political leadership cannot be disentangled from collective psychology
  8. law professor Cass Sunstein, on why behavioural science is always nudging us
  9. what are nightshade vegetables and are they bad for you?
  10. Labor to propose new measures to put downward pressure on gas prices
  11. Dismissed under Mussolini, later Nobel prize winner – the importance of scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini
  12. Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense
  13. Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
  14. A new project shows combining childcare and aged care has social and economic benefits
  15. The great movie scenes: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  16. World politics explainer: The Great War (WWI)
  17. Full response from Mathias Cormann for a FactCheck on corporate tax cuts and the US economy
  18. have the Trump tax cuts led to lower unemployment and higher wages?
  19. Look up Australia, cable cars could ease our traffic woes
  20. Party leaders need to address federal parliament's intolerable workplace culture: Phelps
  21. How Australia can fix the market for plasma and save millions
  22. Australian universities to benefit in Australia-Indonesia free trade deal
  23. Don't believe what they say about inequality. Some of us are worse off
  24. Why the WA government is wrong to play identity politics with dingoes
  25. What does the Nine Fairfax merger mean for diversity and quality journalism?
  26. Peter Dutton's decisions on the au pairs are legal
  27. Michelle Grattan on the Liberals' leadership spill and the controversy around au pair visas
  28. whose name on the laws of physics for an expanding universe?
  29. Revised DrinkWise posters use clumsy language to dampen alcohol warnings
  30. What is a mobile network, anyway? This is 5G, boiled down
  31. Australian politics and the psychology of revenge
  32. Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy was a genuine Australian international crime fiction hero
  33. what role does ministerial discretion play in the Chelsea Manning visa case?
  34. For Pacific Island nations, rising sea levels are a bigger security concern than rising Chinese influence
  35. Children’s well-being goes hand in hand with their dads’ mental health
  36. why the UN has found Myanmar’s military committed genocide against the Rohingya
  37. Female corporate leaders make firms less likely to fall foul of environmental laws
  38. done right, awareness-raising days can pack a punch
  39. the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt
  40. why do our muscles stiffen as we age?
  41. how to provide suitable and affordable housing for ageing people
  42. When AI meets your shopping experience it knows what you buy – and what you ought to buy
  43. online retailing is changing our lives, whether we use it or not
  44. Leaks target Peter Dutton over decisions on au pairs
  45. The high costs of our destructive coup culture
  46. Sarah Kane's controversial 1990s play Blasted feels prescient in the #MeToo era
  47. How augmented reality may one day make music a visual, interactive experience
  48. Court opens door to domestic violence victim to sue police for negligence
  49. Belly fat is the most dangerous, but losing it from anywhere helps
  50. Training won't end discrimination, we have to hold people responsible

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