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Michelle Grattan on the changes to foreign interference laws

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

Michelle Grattan speaks with Canberra University’s Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the government’s concessions on the foreign interference laws, the fallout from Barnaby Joyce’s paid TV interview and an early poll for the Mayo byelection favouring incumbent Rebekha Sharkie over...

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from the meaning of time to the marvels of fungi

  • Written by: Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking, Curriculum Director–UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
from the meaning of time to the marvels of fungiA scene from the short film KCLOC.Screenshot/Vimeo

One of the wonderful things about science is that it makes us think about what we value, or what is meaningful to us. It’s not just an objective, dispassionate inquiry into the material world, it’s also a large part of the story about what it means to be human.

That dimension is often...

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Commonwealth Bank's $700 million fine will end up punishing its customers

  • Written by: Sandeep Gopalan, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Innovation) & Professor of Law, Deakin University

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) this week agreed to pay a record penalty to settle its violations of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws. The A$700 million fine plus legal costs will become final upon the approval of the Federal Court.

The deal was met with market approval, and has allowed regulators to claim victory....

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Revisiting metadata retention in light of the government’s push for new powers

  • Written by: Rick Sarre, Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
Revisiting metadata retention in light of the government’s push for new powersDespite its enormous cost, the metadata retention scheme wasn’t future-proof. Shutterstock

The Minister for Law Enforcement and Cybersecurity, Angus Taylor, foreshadowed this week that the Turnbull government will continue to pursue new law-enforcement powers that would allow authorities access to encrypted digital data in the fight against...

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  1. Most people don't benefit from vaccination, but we still need it to prevent infections
  2. Is Australia's current drought caused by climate change? It's complicated
  3. Government needs to slow down on changes to spying and foreign interference laws
  4. A bird’s eye view of New Zealand's changing glaciers
  5. Turnbull government shrinks Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme register
  6. Traffic is complex, but modelling using deceptively simple rules can help unravel what's going on
  7. Male dolphins use their individual 'names' to build a complex social network
  8. what might heaven be like?
  9. Bees join an elite group of species that understands the concept of zero as a number
  10. what's the difference between formative and summative assessment in schools?
  11. Why breakups are so hard and how to cope with them
  12. Twenty years on, One Nation is still chaotic, controversial and influential
  13. Criminal charges against banking 'cartels' show Australia is getting tough on competition law
  14. Liberals' Georgina Downer trailing in early Mayo poll
  15. Government and Labor unite to erect the barriers against foreign interference
  16. Passing the brumby bill is a backward step for environmental protection in Australia
  17. Here's what a privacy policy that's easy to understand could look like
  18. Fewer men who have sex with men are using condoms when taking PrEP, and that's OK
  19. Tony Albert’s politically charged kitsch collection confronts our racist past
  20. Australian fished populations drop by a third over ten years, study finds
  21. Manifeste pour les entreprenants… Par-delà les premiers de cordée
  22. Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls
  23. Nature's traffic engineers have come up with many simple but effective solutions
  24. Religious freedoms should include spiritual beliefs too
  25. Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness
  26. Five things parents can do to improve their children's eating patterns
  27. Many Australian school students feel they 'don't belong' in school: new research
  28. Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard ships
  29. 'Western civilisation'? History teaching has moved on, and so should those who champion it
  30. What's driving the sky-high child marriage rates in South Sudan
  31. Kate Spade, the archetypal New Yorker, sold whimsical, affordable luxury to women
  32. Paramedics need more support to deal with daily trauma
  33. three things you should know about volcano risk
  34. the quiet rise of gender-neutral toys
  35. Despite strong words, the US has few options left to reverse China's gains in the South China Sea
  36. Making a global agenda work locally for healthy, sustainable living in tropical Australia
  37. ANU's new entrance criteria won't do much to improve equity
  38. Why do our ears pop?
  39. Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions
  40. The world’s economic crisis-fighting mechanisms are dangerously inadequate
  41. Greens release annual figures for income tax package
  42. Turnbull wants Joyce to have continuing 'prominent role' in public life
  43. The flu vaccine is being oversold – it's not that effective
  44. why Chinese telecoms participating in Australia's 5G network could be a problem
  45. Labor trailing in Longman and Braddon, and how Senate changes helped the Coalition
  46. No evidence that sexbots reduce harms to women and children
  47. Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old commercial letting
  48. The House of Bernada Alba is an extraordinary portrait of imposed silence and female misogyny
  49. Why industrial manslaughter laws are unlikely to save lives in the workplace
  50. five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal Australians

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