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The future is fenced for Australian animals

  • Written by: Michael Bode, Associate Professor of Mathematics, The University of Queensland
The future is fenced for Australian animalsMala, also known as rufous hare-wallabies, will be protected behind an enormous cat-proof fence. Donald Hobern/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Many of Australia’s mammals spend their entire lives imprisoned, glimpsing the outside world through tall chain-link fences and high-voltage wires. There are dozens of these enclosures across Australia. Many are...

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We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the Gap

  • Written by: Kieran Wong, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
We need to stop innovating in Indigenous housing and get on with Closing the GapA house at Little Paradise on Groote Eylandt, East Arnhem Land.Kieran Wong, CC BY-SA

The tenth anniversary of the launch of the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) Closing the Gap agenda came and went, with the usual (often exasperated) commentators noting the lack of progress. The Australian Human Rights Commission was critical in its a...

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Labor to put test vote on phasing out live sheep trade

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

Labor on Thursday will move an amendment to phase out live sheep exports, mirroring the private member’s bill put up by Liberal MP Sussan Ley.

The amendment will be to the government’s legislation to tighten the regulations governing the trade.

The Labor move will be a token stand because the amendment has no hope being passed. The ALP...

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Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethics

  • Written by: Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne
Barnaby Joyce's decision to sell his story is a breach of professional ethicsBarnaby Joyce blames his latest troubles on the absence of a general right to sue for breach of privacy.AAP/Lukas Coch

Barnaby Joyce’s decision to accept money – reportedly $150,000 – from Channel Seven in return for giving an interview about his relationship with his former staffer Vikki Campion, calls into question his fitness...

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  1. Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case
  2. Commercial TV's rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air
  3. Michael McCormack on Barnaby's future, latte sippers and other matters
  4. Crowdfunded campaigns are conserving the Earth's environment
  5. getting caught in a romance scam could cost you your life
  6. Accountability is key to building trust in Australia's intelligence community
  7. Australia's fragile grasslands at the Venice Biennale
  8. Coke has promised 'less sugar', but less is still too much
  9. Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are
  10. The bugs we carry and how our immune system fights them
  11. Universities need to do more to support refugee students
  12. Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
  13. Superannuation is still mired in the same old issues, and no one is going to fix your nest egg but you
  14. It's less than 2cm long, but this 400 million year old fossil fish changes our view of vertebrate evolution
  15. Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
  16. Food sharing with a 21st-century twist – and Melbourne's a world leader
  17. Barnaby Joyce takes personal leave after horror day
  18. Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)
  19. The BS and the science of nanotechnology
  20. Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert
  21. Newspoll asks skewed company tax cut question as Labor gains
  22. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  23. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  24. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  25. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  26. is it a white thing?
  27. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  28. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  29. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  30. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  31. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  32. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  33. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  34. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy
  35. what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
  36. Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond
  37. Independent crossbencher Steve Martin joins Nationals, giving the party a Tasmanian presence
  38. The off-topic Conversation #161
  39. The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum
  40. how traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping
  41. why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
  42. Why CEOs need to embrace fear
  43. why infectious diseases are so much more harmful to isolated peoples
  44. why reducing the number of subjects isn't the answer
  45. The IOC thinks eSports are too violent for the Olympics, but traditional sports are violent too
  46. Summit on, then off, now on again? The seemingly endless game-playing of US-North Korea relations
  47. New Zealand's hoki fishery under scrutiny after claims of fish dumping, misreporting
  48. Airport-dwelling magpies get in less of a flap about planes, and that could be good or bad
  49. Demasi cleared, but images in science continue to attract intense scrutiny
  50. Michelle Grattan on Labor's byelection bother

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