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Why rural Australia is facing a volunteer crisis

  • Written by: Amanda Davies, Associate professor, Curtin University
Why rural Australia is facing a volunteer crisisIn some rural Australian towns, there's nobody left to help the elderly or coach cricket teams.From Shutterstock

The small town of Coorow is located in the wheat-belt region of Western Australia, about a three hours drive north of Perth. With a population of 400 people, the town funds many of its essential services and community facilities with...

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A history of the marsupial lion

  • Written by: Pete Minard, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Inland, La Trobe University., La Trobe University
A history of the marsupial lionThe spectacular Wellington Caves are a tourist attraction - and a fossil site. winam/flickr , CC BY-NC-ND

“Marsupial lions” lived on the Australian continent from about 24 million years ago up until the end of the Pleistocene era, about 30,000 years ago.

Of course they weren’t really lions, but an extinct species of marsupial with...

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Small sats are vital to Australia's space industry – and they won't be space junk

  • Written by: Michael Smart, Professor of Hypersonic Aerodynamics, The University of Queensland
Small sats are vital to Australia's space industry – and they won't be space junkSmall satellites are launched to Low Earth Orbit - and then eventually burn up. from www.shutterstock.com

Today the federal government released its response to the review of Australia’s Space Capability.

Among the details regarding the establishment of Australia’s first space agency, and a national space industry strategy, it is clear...

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If we can't recycle it, why not turn our waste plastic into fuel?

  • Written by: Muxina Konarova, Advanced Queensland Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
If we can't recycle it, why not turn our waste plastic into fuel?Could this be turned into fuel, instead of just more plastic?Shutterstock.com

Australia’s recycling crisis needs us to look into waste management options beyond just recycling and landfilling. Some of our waste, like paper or organic matter, can be composted. Some, like glass, metal and rigid plastics, can be recycled. But we have no...

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  1. Going Down finds hilarious satire in migrant identity
  2. How information warfare in cyberspace threatens our freedom
  3. 94% of Australians do not read all privacy policies that apply to them – and that’s rational behaviour
  4. what should I eat to improve my skin?
  5. Competing foreign interests trump Syrian aspirations for political change
  6. could constitutional monarchies be important aids to democracy?
  7. will the banking royal commission push down property prices?
  8. a short history of the contraceptive pill
  9. No, women don't need to 'take a break' from the pill every couple of years
  10. Can anyone learn to sing? For most of us, the answer is yes
  11. Is that selfie really worth it? Why face time with wild animals is a bad idea
  12. Mixed messages in post-budget Newspoll and Fairfax-Ipsos
  13. Let's get moving with the affordable medium-speed alternatives to the old dream of high-speed rail
  14. We asked people if they would trust driverless cars
  15. use technology to make the tests more authentic and relevant
  16. Changes to superannuation insurance won't jack up rates – but if anything they don't go far enough
  17. The secret agents protecting our crops and gardens
  18. Archibald winner Yvette Coppersmith channels her inner Jacinda Ardern in an intelligent, classical work
  19. A giant 'singing' cloud in space will help us to understand how star systems form
  20. Why the internet alone can't be blamed for radicalisation
  21. Criminals can't easily edit their DNA out of forensic databases
  22. what is burnout and what can we do about it?
  23. Michelle Grattan on the 2018 budget, tax cuts and the citizenship crisis
  24. Malaysians celebrate the return of Mahathir and hope for a brighter future
  25. For Timor-Leste, another election and hopes for an end to crippling deadlock
  26. Shorten gives Turnbull a character-forming task on tax
  27. how inflation in China and the US could affect Australia
  28. Who are the wealthy retirees targeted in Labor's plans?
  29. Here's why flu vaccinations should be mandatory for Aussie health workers in high-risk areas
  30. Here's how a complex low-pressure system sent temperatures plummeting
  31. the complex, contradictory pleasures of pulp fiction
  32. How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
  33. Ancient ancestors of modern baleen whales were toothy not-so-gentle giants
  34. Sydney's Chinatown is much more of a modern bridge to Asia than a historic enclave
  35. what Australian schools can do to promote acceptance of gender diversity
  36. Bill Shorten outbids Turnbull's tax cut for lower and middle income earners
  37. we still don't have proof that cutting company taxes will boost jobs and wages
  38. Australia's property boom and bust cycle stretches back to colonial days
  39. Centre Alliance's Rebekha Sharkie most vulnerable at byelections forced by dual citizenship saga
  40. Does it pay to graduate from an ‘elite’ university? Not as much as you'd think
  41. Religious backlash loosens clerics' grip on legacy of 1979 Iranian Revolution
  42. the case of 'Universal Medicine'
  43. Good signage in national parks can save lives. Here's how to do it right
  44. How silent signals from your phone could be recording and tracking you
  45. your guide to the musical styles of Eurovision
  46. how the Australian intelligence community works
  47. Trust is the second casualty in the war on terror
  48. How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health
  49. Most of the benefits from the budget tax cuts will help the rich get richer
  50. Deal on Murray Darling Basin Plan could make history for Indigenous water rights

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