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As the details emerge on Australia's new space agency, we (might) finally have lift-off

  • Written by: Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
As the details emerge on Australia's new space agency, we (might) finally have lift-offA promise of new jobs from Australia's new space agency.Shutterstock/Harvepino

Details of Australia’s new space agency were released on Monday with the federal government’s response to the Report on the Review of Australia’s Space Industry Capability.

The Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Michaelia Cash, also announced the...

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Labor has equal best Newspoll budget result, gains in Ipsos, but trails in Longman

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Labor has equal best Newspoll budget result, gains in Ipsos, but trails in LongmanWhile this is Malcolm Turnbull's 32nd consecutive Newspoll loss as PM, the past two have been narrow losses. AAP/Ellen Smith

This week’s Newspoll, conducted May 10-13 from a sample of 1,730, gave Labor a 51-49 lead, unchanged from three weeks ago. Primary votes were 39% Coalition (up one), 38% Labor (up one), 9% Greens (steady) and 6% One...

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To get conservative climate contrarians to really listen, try speaking their language

  • Written by: Jamie Freestone, PhD student in literature, The University of Queensland
To get conservative climate contrarians to really listen, try speaking their languagePeople will listen more when they like what they're hearing.Shutterstock.com

It’s a well-studied fact that facts don’t speak for themselves. This is especially apparent with climate change. Some brilliant studies in the past ten years have shown that people respond to narratives about climate change, not raw facts.

We also know that...

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women need to know about the link between the pill and depression

  • Written by: Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
women need to know about the link between the pill and depressionSome women are very sensitive to small shifts in oestrogen and progesterone; others aren't.from shutterstock.com

ON THE PILL: In this seven-part series we explore the history, myths, side-effects and alternatives of the pill, and why it’s the most popular form of contraception in Australia.


The introduction of the contraceptive pill in the...

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  1. The ethics of 'securitising' Australian cyberspace
  2. How the Bible helped shape Australian culture
  3. Australia's shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
  4. Five things we wouldn't know without NAPLAN
  5. What it's like to be a 'black economy' worker
  6. There is extra funding for aged care in the budget, but not enough to meet demand
  7. Polish Resistance fighter, 'Slavic space age' modernist, legendary Australian artist
  8. Why Iceland is set to resume whaling despite international opposition
  9. Why rural Australia is facing a volunteer crisis
  10. A history of the marsupial lion
  11. Small sats are vital to Australia's space industry – and they won't be space junk
  12. If we can't recycle it, why not turn our waste plastic into fuel?
  13. Going Down finds hilarious satire in migrant identity
  14. How information warfare in cyberspace threatens our freedom
  15. 94% of Australians do not read all privacy policies that apply to them – and that’s rational behaviour
  16. what should I eat to improve my skin?
  17. Competing foreign interests trump Syrian aspirations for political change
  18. could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?
  19. will the banking royal commission push down property prices?
  20. a short history of the contraceptive pill
  21. No, women don't need to 'take a break' from the pill every couple of years
  22. Can anyone learn to sing? For most of us, the answer is yes
  23. Is that selfie really worth it? Why face time with wild animals is a bad idea
  24. Mixed messages in post-budget Newspoll and Fairfax-Ipsos
  25. Let's get moving with the affordable medium-speed alternatives to the old dream of high-speed rail
  26. We asked people if they would trust driverless cars
  27. use technology to make the tests more authentic and relevant
  28. Changes to superannuation insurance won't jack up rates – but if anything they don't go far enough
  29. The secret agents protecting our crops and gardens
  30. Archibald winner Yvette Coppersmith channels her inner Jacinda Ardern in an intelligent, classical work
  31. A giant 'singing' cloud in space will help us to understand how star systems form
  32. Why the internet alone can't be blamed for radicalisation
  33. Criminals can't easily edit their DNA out of forensic databases
  34. what is burnout and what can we do about it?
  35. Michelle Grattan on the 2018 budget, tax cuts and the citizenship crisis
  36. Malaysians celebrate the return of Mahathir and hope for a brighter future
  37. For Timor-Leste, another election and hopes for an end to crippling deadlock
  38. Shorten gives Turnbull a character-forming task on tax
  39. how inflation in China and the US could affect Australia
  40. Who are the wealthy retirees targeted in Labor's plans?
  41. Here's why flu vaccinations should be mandatory for Aussie health workers in high-risk areas
  42. Here's how a complex low-pressure system sent temperatures plummeting
  43. the complex, contradictory pleasures of pulp fiction
  44. How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
  45. Ancient ancestors of modern baleen whales were toothy not-so-gentle giants
  46. Sydney's Chinatown is much more of a modern bridge to Asia than a historic enclave
  47. what Australian schools can do to promote acceptance of gender diversity
  48. Bill Shorten outbids Turnbull's tax cut for lower and middle income earners
  49. we still don't have proof that cutting company taxes will boost jobs and wages
  50. Australia's property boom and bust cycle stretches back to colonial days

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