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Turnbull government shrinks Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme register

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

Attorney-General Christian Porter has put forward compromise amendments to the government’s proposed register of foreign agents that will limit its reach.

The changes are designed to meet criticisms from charities, universities and others, and to get a quick agreement with Labor on the legislation.

The bill for the register is still being...

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Traffic is complex, but modelling using deceptively simple rules can help unravel what's going on

  • Written by: Yohan Kim, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

This is the fourth article in our series, Moving the Masses, about managing the flow of crowds of individuals, be they drivers or pedestrians, shoppers or commuters, birds or ants.


Scientists, engineers and economists have used equations to solve real-world problems since the invention of basic addition and subtraction. Not sure how to price your...

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Male dolphins use their individual 'names' to build a complex social network

  • Written by: Stephanie King, Branco Weiss Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
Male dolphins use their individual 'names' to build a complex social networkThree allied male dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia.Simon J Allen, Author provided

In life it often pays to keep a close eye on competitors and rivals. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals, tells how US president Abraham Lincoln persuaded each of his political rivals to join his cabinet, thereby turning them into his...

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what might heaven be like?

  • Written by: Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
what might heaven be like?Surrounded by Angels, by Carl Schweninger der Jungere, 1912Wikimedia Commons

What will Heaven be like? Perhaps not surprisingly, competing images abound. Until around the end of the 17th century, Heaven was primarily about the Beatific Vision. The perfect happiness of eternity in Heaven consisted in the worship, praise and adoration of God along...

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  2. what's the difference between formative and summative assessment in schools?
  3. Why breakups are so hard and how to cope with them
  4. Twenty years on, One Nation is still chaotic, controversial and influential
  5. Criminal charges against banking 'cartels' show Australia is getting tough on competition law
  6. Liberals' Georgina Downer trailing in early Mayo poll
  7. Government and Labor unite to erect the barriers against foreign interference
  8. Passing the brumby bill is a backward step for environmental protection in Australia
  9. Here's what a privacy policy that's easy to understand could look like
  10. Fewer men who have sex with men are using condoms when taking PrEP, and that's OK
  11. Tony Albert’s politically charged kitsch collection confronts our racist past
  12. Australian fished populations drop by a third over ten years, study finds
  13. Manifeste pour les entreprenants… Par-delà les premiers de cordée
  14. Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls
  15. Nature's traffic engineers have come up with many simple but effective solutions
  16. Religious freedoms should include spiritual beliefs too
  17. Haitch or aitch? How a humble letter was held hostage by historical haughtiness
  18. Five things parents can do to improve their children's eating patterns
  19. Many Australian school students feel they 'don't belong' in school: new research
  20. Live sheep exporters get longer 'grace' period for sub-standard ships
  21. 'Western civilisation'? History teaching has moved on, and so should those who champion it
  22. What's driving the sky-high child marriage rates in South Sudan
  23. Kate Spade, the archetypal New Yorker, sold whimsical, affordable luxury to women
  24. Paramedics need more support to deal with daily trauma
  25. three things you should know about volcano risk
  26. the quiet rise of gender-neutral toys
  27. Despite strong words, the US has few options left to reverse China's gains in the South China Sea
  28. Making a global agenda work locally for healthy, sustainable living in tropical Australia
  29. ANU's new entrance criteria won't do much to improve equity
  30. Why do our ears pop?
  31. Deterring cyber attacks: old problems, new solutions
  32. The world’s economic crisis-fighting mechanisms are dangerously inadequate
  33. Greens release annual figures for income tax package
  34. Turnbull wants Joyce to have continuing 'prominent role' in public life
  35. The flu vaccine is being oversold – it's not that effective
  36. why Chinese telecoms participating in Australia's 5G network could be a problem
  37. Labor trailing in Longman and Braddon, and how Senate changes helped the Coalition
  38. No evidence that sexbots reduce harms to women and children
  39. Airbnb regulation needs to distinguish between sharing and plain old commercial letting
  40. The House of Bernada Alba is an extraordinary portrait of imposed silence and female misogyny
  41. Why industrial manslaughter laws are unlikely to save lives in the workplace
  42. five medicinal plants used by Aboriginal Australians
  43. Australian drama in the 1970s
  44. Traditional Aboriginal healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
  45. Combining the facial recognition decisions of humans and computers can prevent costly mistakes
  46. Fed up with always being in the slow queue? That's why queues are being 'designed out'
  47. How changes to UK law may provide more dual citizenship drama
  48. To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their design
  49. Many women with breast cancer may not need chemo, but beware misleading headlines
  50. Public Service Commissioner targeted over IPA links resigns

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