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The devil is in the detail of government bill to enable access to communications data

  • Written by: Monique Mann, Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Regulation of Technology, Queensland University of Technology

The Australian government has released a draft of its long awaited bill to provide law enforcement and security agencies with new powers to respond to the challenges posed by encryption.

According to the Department of Home Affairs, encryption already impacts 90% of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) priority cases, and 90%...

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Why we're watching the giant Australian cuttlefish

  • Written by: Bronwyn GIllanders, Professor , University of Adelaide
Why we're watching the giant Australian cuttlefishHello little ones! Juvenile giant Australian cuttlefish developing under rocks in the waters of South Australia. Fred Bavendam, Author provided

Australia is home to the world’s only known site where cuttlefish gather to mate en masse.

From May to August, if you head into the water around Point Lowly, South Australia, it will be a chilly...

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Melbourne and Adelaide have been Australia's most vulnerable major cities to killer heatwaves

  • Written by: Thomas Longden, Senior Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney

Melbourne and Adelaide have been most prone to deadly heatwave conditions among Australia’s five largest cities, according to my new research published in Climatic Change.

My study shows that between 2001 and 2015, Melbourne and Adelaide suffered the most exposure to temperatures beyond a crucial threshold of 7.26℃ above the average....

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The renewable energy train is unstoppable. The NEG needs to get on board

  • Written by: Ken Baldwin, Director, Energy Change Institute, Australian National University

On the face of it, the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), adopted as Coalition policy at a party room meeting yesterday, appears to promise the certainty that industry, consumers and experts have desperately sought for the past decade. But beware: there is a renewable energy train coming down the track that is unstoppable.

The NEG cannot stop the...

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  2. Fractured Liberals need a new brand – 'broad church' is no longer working
  3. 'You don't belong to my country either.' How two Noongar boys spoke up, a world away from home
  4. French classes in Australia need to acknowledge our Pacific neighbours too
  5. Why Australian prisoners are smoking nicotine-infused tea leaves
  6. Turnbull beats Abbott over NEG, now Frydenberg has to win Victoria
  7. Substance abuse treatment relies on good brain function, which many users don't have
  8. Matteo Garrone's Dogman needs more dogs
  9. Who writes science and technology stories? More men than women
  10. Ian Jacobs on universities, Australia's 'hidden' asset
  11. New data access bill shows we need to get serious about privacy with independent oversight of the law
  12. The Meg! When the (giant prehistoric) shark bites, the science bites back
  13. the worrying body-image pressures in the AFL
  14. Finance drives everything — including your insecurity at work
  15. Your colleagues are not dinosaurs – it's workplace routines that make innovation difficult
  16. Turnbull pushes the 'reset' button with China, but will it be enough?
  17. Time for the federal government to catch up on political donations reform
  18. Ten reasons teachers can struggle to use technology in the classroom
  19. Too many Australians have to choose between heating or eating this winter
  20. How far have we come since the ’80s vision of the 'non-sexist city'?
  21. Digital homework tools should be more than just the textbook as an app
  22. 'Natural disasters' and people on the margins – the hidden story
  23. Steve Hart dressed as a girl, 1947 by Sidney Nolan
  24. Abbott and Turnbull shape up for another round of an old battle
  25. Why the NAPLAN results delay is a storm in a teacup
  26. Facebook is all for community, but what kind of community is it building?
  27. Belarus Free Theatre's Generation Jeans resonates
  28. Turnbull’s Newspoll ratings slump; Labor leads in Victoria; Longman preferences helped LNP
  29. Why shield laws can be ineffective in protecting journalists' sources
  30. why do we get nose bleeds?
  31. Refugees are integrating just fine in regional Australia
  32. how homeless women have little choice but to use sex for survival
  33. Five easy ways to boost children's spatial skills
  34. Is it time to remove the cancer label from low-risk conditions?
  35. Obesity is a market failure and personal responsibility will not solve it alone
  36. Obesity is a market failure and innovation, not sin taxes, may be the solution
  37. Are they watching you? The tiny brains of bees and wasps can recognise faces
  38. Why we need some perspective on landscape photography in the Instagram age
  39. Embattled VC winner asks Attorney-General to refer Fairfax Media to police
  40. Labor states keep the National Energy Guarantee in play but withhold agreement
  41. The mysterious Pilostyles is a plant within a plant
  42. The US plan for a Space Force risks escalating a 'space arms race'
  43. Jupiter's magnetic fields may stop its wind bands from going deep into the gas giant
  44. Inquiry finds Husar behaved badly to staff but dismisses allegations of lewd conduct
  45. learn all about Australia's native trees and plants
  46. The Gay Games are still relevant. Here's why
  47. Hackers cause most data breaches, but accidents by normal people aren't far behind
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