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Debunking three common myths about divorce and abuse in Muslim communities

  • Written by: Sandra Elhelw Wright, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
Debunking three common myths about divorce and abuse in Muslim communitiesMany Muslim women in Australia struggle to secure a religious divorce to escape abusive relationships.

A recent ABC News investigation highlighted the difficulties some Muslim women in Australia have experienced in trying to obtain a religious divorce from imams. This in turn can many times trap Muslim women in abusive relationships for years.

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Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 years

  • Written by: Mandy Freund, PhD student, University of Melbourne
Recent Australian droughts may be the worst in 800 yearsPlaces such as Berri were affected by Millennium Drought, caused by low cool-season rain. New materials and techniques are now being used to observe drought causes and water patterns in Australia's history to help the future.Gary Sauer-Thompson/flickr, CC BY-NC

Australia is a continent defined by extremes, and recent decades have seen some...

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Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA

  • Written by: Nathan Scudder, PhD Researcher, University of Canberra
Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNAFemales who remain unidentified at the time of burial are named 'Jane Doe'. Findagrave

Technologies for amplifying, sequencing and matching DNA have created new opportunities in genomic science. In this series When DNA Talks we look at the ethical and social implications.

When Joseph DeAngelo was arrested in the United States last month over a...

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The government could be boosting the budget bottom line with a change to how it taxes gas

  • Written by: Diane Kraal, Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University

Resources usually give the budget a healthy boost in economic boom times but the government could be reaping more revenue if it changed the way it taxes gas projects, my new modelling shows.

A small change in the method for valuing gas would increase revenue from the petroleum resource rent tax by US$15.5 billion to 2030, compared to the current...

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  5. Want to eat better? You might be able to train yourself to change your tastes
  6. Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chain
  7. Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data
  8. eSports are shifting the focus of Australia's sporting passion
  9. Planet Earth II Live unites art and science in a celebration of nature
  10. APRA and ASIC have the legal power to sack bank heads, but they need willpower
  11. It will take decades, but the Murray Darling Basin Plan is delivering environmental improvements
  12. Trust Me, I'm An Expert: 'Dancing out of depression'
  13. To create safer cities for everyone, we need to avoid security that threatens
  14. The big four accounting firms struggle to shake their sexist pasts
  15. As Emmanuel Macron heads to Australia, the relationship is more important than ever
  16. Counting the costs of illness and injury on Australian workers
  17. With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
  18. Signals from a spectacular neutron star merger that made gravitational waves are slowly fading away
  19. but do we really need it?
  20. bandicoots live among us in Melbourne
  21. five articles to get you informed on sugar and Big Sugar's role in food policy
  22. There is still no US Ambassador to Australia, but it is neither an insult nor a concern
  23. Launching in May, the InSight mission will measure marsquakes to explore the interior of Mars
  24. the World Expo reshaped Brisbane because no one wanted the party to end
  25. Pushing casual sport to the margins threatens cities' social cohesion
  26. In the debate about Australian content on TV, we need to look further than the ABC
  27. Why does ice make a cracking sound when water is poured on it?
  28. why is it increasing and who benefits?
  29. Why kickstarting small business exports could boost stagnant wages
  30. how Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
  31. how to deal with aggression, tantrums and defiance
  32. Gonski review attacks Australian schooling quality and urges individualised teaching approach
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  36. Michelle Grattan on the government abandoning the Medicare levy
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  39. Why Democrats have filed a lawsuit against Russia – and what Australian politicians should learn from it
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  45. Friday essay: recovering a narrative of place
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