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Victoria's sperm donor laws yield some surprises, but mostly happy ones

  • Written by: Karin Hammarberg, Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Victoria's sperm donor laws yield some surprises, but mostly happy onesAt least half of the donors who had donated anonymously were in favour of their offspring being able to know their identity.Shutterstock

Many Victorians are now discovering for the first time that they have offspring from sperm donations made in Victorian clinics in the 1970s and 1980s.

These findings were revealed in a new report released earlier...

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In Open Cut exhibition, protest art challenges visitors to take action

  • Written by: Kirrily Jordan, Research Fellow, Australian National University
In Open Cut exhibition, protest art challenges visitors to take action

Jacky Green, Yee-haw, Money trucks, 2017, 87 x 100cm, acrylic on canvas. “We hurt when we see those trucks driving through our country.”Jacky Green

Can art translate to political action? An exhibition dealing with “development” in the Northern Territory, Open Cut, suggests there is power in storytelling through the visual...

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can two chickens hatch out of a double-yolk egg?

  • Written by: Maggie J. Watson, Lecturer in Ornithology, Ecology, Conservation and Parasitology, Charles Sturt University
can two chickens hatch out of a double-yolk egg?Like two peas in a pod, if the pod was an egg and the peas were chickens.Gina Pina/Flickr.com, CC BY

This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au.

Can two chicks be born from a double-yolk egg? - Megan,...

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Breaking the shackles of the national mindset in a polarised world

  • Written by: Sabine Selchow, Research Fellow, ARC Laureate Program in International History, University of Sydney

This article is part of the Revolutions and Counter Revolutions series, curated by Democracy Futures as a joint global initiative between the Sydney Democracy Network and The Conversation. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century.

Politics today is characterised by polarisation....

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  20. Senate newcomer Tim Storer plays hardball on company tax
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