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Threat to the ABC is not sale but more bullying

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

A re-elected Turnbull government wouldn’t sell the ABC, whatever scare Bill Shorten might be raising. But you’d have to be an optimist to think that if it wins, it won’t intensify its bullying and denigration of the public broadcaster.

There is more than a little irony in the Liberal federal council on Saturday delivering Labor a...

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Wollemi pines are dinosaur trees

  • Written by: Cris Brack, Assoc Professor Forest measurement & management, Australian National University
Wollemi pines are dinosaur treesWollemi pines once covered prehistoric Australia.The Conversation/Wikipedia

Welcome to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants. Read more about the series here or get in touch to pitch a plant at batb@theconversation.edu.au.


There’s a tree that once covered the whole of Australia, then dwindled to a dozen examples, and is...

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Protecting Google from defamation is worth seriously considering

  • Written by: Michael Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia

It has been a huge week for defamation law.

Last Thursday, the NSW Government announced a push to reform Australia’s uniform defamation laws. It is calling for a “cyber-age reboot”. That proposal was backed by a “statutory review” of the NSW Defamation Act. At a meeting of the Council of Attorneys-General, the states...

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Fallen Kingdom where new dinosaurs emerge but who are the real monsters?

  • Written by: John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
Fallen Kingdom where new dinosaurs emerge but who are the real monsters?There's a new kid in town inJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures Productions, LLC.

In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom the lines between human and monster are not clear-cut. Much of the film, the fifth instalment of the Universal franchise, is driven by both human and dinosaur capacity...

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  13. Could Australia win, really? The science of predicting the World Cup champion
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  15. School vision and mission statements should not be dismissed as empty words
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