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Barnaby Joyce takes personal leave after horror day

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

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has abruptly gone on personal leave until the end of June, after a horror day in which he shifted the onus to partner Vikki Campion for the widely-criticised sale of their TV interview.

Facing a mounting public backlash from colleagues, Joyce blamed media intrusion and said Campion had felt “screwed...

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Queensland's new land-clearing laws are all stick and no carrot (but it's time to do better)

  • Written by: Philippa England, Senior Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University

The Queensland government passed legislation last month to prevent the clearing of high-value regrowth vegetation on freehold and Indigenous land. The move has been deeply unpopular with many landholders. They have argued that they are footing the bill for the commmunity’s environmental aspirations – without compensation.

The...

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The BS and the science of nanotechnology

  • Written by: Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
The BS and the science of nanotechnologyCarbon nanotubes are one of the products created from engineering at the nanoscale. from www.shutterstock.com

In case you missed it, Elon Musk called BS on the field of nanotechnology last week. The ensuing Twitter spat was admittedly rather small on the grand scale of things.

But it did throw up an important question: just what is nanotech, and...

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Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desert

  • Written by: Maggie Ivanova, Lecturer and Director of Studies, Drama, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University
Terrestrial, a tale of friendship, loneliness and aliens in the Australian desertAnnabel Matheson as Liddy in Terrestrial. Kate Pardey.

Theatre review: Terrestrial, Adelaide Festival Centre


Fleur Kilpatrick’s Terrestrial, directed by Nescha Jelk for the State Theatre Company of South Australia, is a story about memory, friendship and aliens set in an Australian desert mining town.

Through a narrative frame structured like...

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  2. New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good
  3. Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
  4. University funding debates should be broadened to reflect their democratic purpose
  5. Young people, not employers, should choose super fund: Productivity Commission
  6. is it a white thing?
  7. will the universe expand forever, or contract in a big crunch?
  8. how globalisation spreads infectious diseases
  9. The public barbie, an Aussie icon frozen in time
  10. Megaphone diplomacy is good for selling papers, but harmful for Australia-China relations
  11. Research shows networking is painful, but it can be a lot better
  12. How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
  13. Government 'dares' the Senate on its corporate and income tax packages
  14. Hold your horses – brumby fertility control isn't that easy
  15. what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
  16. Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond
  17. Independent crossbencher Steve Martin joins Nationals, giving the party a Tasmanian presence
  18. The off-topic Conversation #161
  19. The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum
  20. how traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping
  21. why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
  22. Why CEOs need to embrace fear
  23. why infectious diseases are so much more harmful to isolated peoples
  24. why reducing the number of subjects isn't the answer
  25. The IOC thinks eSports are too violent for the Olympics, but traditional sports are violent too
  26. Summit on, then off, now on again? The seemingly endless game-playing of US-North Korea relations
  27. New Zealand's hoki fishery under scrutiny after claims of fish dumping, misreporting
  28. Airport-dwelling magpies get in less of a flap about planes, and that could be good or bad
  29. Demasi cleared, but images in science continue to attract intense scrutiny
  30. Michelle Grattan on Labor's byelection bother
  31. Why some migrants in abusive relationships don't receive help, and are deported
  32. why, and what can we do about it?
  33. Australia's deal with Timor-Leste in peril again over oil and gas
  34. Dugong and sea turtle poo sheds new light on the Great Barrier Reef's seagrass meadows
  35. William Ricketts Sanctuary is a racist anachronism but can it foster empathy?
  36. Six things Labor’s review of tertiary education should consider
  37. Plain, Greek, low-fat? How to choose a healthy yoghurt
  38. should the government intervene to fix low wages?
  39. When neighbourhoods become dangerous, look to local strengths for a lifeline
  40. but what's going on beneath Hawai'i's volcano?
  41. 'Super Saturday' is not so super in Labor's eyes
  42. Labor outraged as July 28 Super Saturday overlaps ALP conference
  43. Expenses authority can't tell Joyce when his travel expenses inquiry will end
  44. A new levy on digital giants like Google, Facebook and eBay is a step towards a fairer way of taxing
  45. What causes chronic fatigue? What we know, don’t know and suspect
  46. Meghan Markle and why being 'mixed race' matters in Australia
  47. Tough new EU privacy regulations could lead to better protections in Australia
  48. the Horne family study gets a second life
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