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Joyce admits he knew as soon as Campion was pregnant that he'd lose his job

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

Barnaby Joyce has said he knew as soon as Vikki Campion found she was pregnant that he would lose his job as deputy prime minister, in a tell-all interview sure to further infuriate colleagues already angry at the damage he has caused the government.

In the couple’s much-anticipated appearance on the Seven Network Joyce, asked his reaction...

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the tallest flowering plant in the world

  • Written by: Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne
the tallest flowering plant in the worldCSIRO via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Welcome to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian. Read more about the series here or get in touch to pitch a plant at batb@theconversation.edu.au.


The Indigenous people of Victoria and Tasmania have long known of the giant...

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The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you age

  • Written by: Emmanuel Stamatakis, Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
The faster you walk, the better for long term health – especially as you ageOK, you don't need the poles. But you should pick up the pace. from www.shutterstock.com

Some of us like to stroll along and smell the roses, while others march to their destination as quickly as their feet will carry them. A new study out today has found those who report faster walking have lower risk of premature death.

We studied just over 50,000...

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The Coalition's income tax cuts will help the rich more, but in a decade everyone pays more anyway

  • Written by: Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University

Does the Coalition’s tax plan favour high earners over those with lower incomes?

Depending whom you listen to, the tax cuts, unveiled in last month’s federal budget, lead to either a flatter, more regressive tax system under which low-income earners will be even worse off relative to high earners, or the opposite, with a progressive...

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  7. Is your dog happy? Ten common misconceptions about dog behaviour
  8. why real change requires a major cultural shift
  9. What we know about why Chinese students come to Australia to study
  10. Why nanotechnology is more than just a buzzword
  11. How we're using Darwin's theory of evolution to build robots that can adapt and learn on their own
  12. Italy is broke, and the markets have lost all faith in its elected politicians
  13. how do you measure remorse?
  14. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: The explainer episode
  15. Pauline unplugged lets rip against Senate colleague
  16. Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character
  17. Brotherhood of St Laurence's Conny Lenneberg on Newstart, poverty and inequality
  18. A new family 'super court' may not save time or result in better judgments
  19. Australia's major dance companies need to step up on gender equality
  20. Like sightseeing in Paris – a new model for brain communication
  21. Winter is coming, and it's looking mighty mild
  22. 13 Reasons Why season 2 could still be problematic, but content warnings might help
  23. Ancient fossil fills a 75 million-year gap and rewrites lizard and snake history
  24. How children's picturebooks can disrupt existing language hierarchies
  25. Australia's foreign real estate investment boom looks to be over. Here are five things we learned
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  27. Darwin's On the Origin of Species
  28. Specialists are free to set their fees, but there are ways to ensure patients don't get ripped off
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  30. We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap
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  33. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  34. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air
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  41. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
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  43. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
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