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  • Written by: Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
views from NSW and SAWe're all waiting to hear what shape Australia's Space Agency will take. from www.shutterstock.com

It’s been a long time coming, but Australia is finally going to have a Space Agency. This will enable Australian space industries to benefit from agency-to-agency agreements and collaborations, and facilitate our participation in the growing...

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Is Truvada (PrEP) the game-changer that will end new HIV transmissions in Australia?

  • Written by: Edwina Wright, Associate Professor, Monash University
Is Truvada (PrEP) the game-changer that will end new HIV transmissions in Australia?Australia is within reach of achieving its pledge to end new HIV transmissions by 2020.Shutterstok

On Sunday, April 1, Australia will join only a handful of other countries in the world whose governments have made HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) readily available to populations at risk of HIV infection.

This step forward takes Australia much...

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he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters

  • Written by: Robyn J. Whitaker, Bromby Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Trinity College, University of Divinity
he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that mattersHans Zatzka (Public Domain)/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this picture, Jesus looks kind and gentle, he gazes down at me lovingly. He is also light-haired,...

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Islamic State schooled children as soldiers – how can their 'education' be undone?

  • Written by: James S. Morris, PhD Student in International Security and Child Rights, The University of Queensland
Islamic State schooled children as soldiers – how can their 'education' be undone?There is a fundamental difference between Islamic State's use of child soldiers and the practice elsewhere.Al Arabiya/YouTube

Over the last few years, the Islamic State (IS) terror group has shocked the world with its gruesome public spectacles. Especially abhorrent to our moral sensibilities is its overt use of children as frontline fighters,...

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  1. Online conspiracy theorists are more diverse (and ordinary) than most assume
  2. The BOM outlook for the weather over the next three months is 'neutral' – here's what that really means
  3. Daylight saving can boost the economy but Australia needs to make it uniform
  4. With China's space station about to crash land, who's responsible if you get hit by space junk?
  5. save the world, one chocolate at a time
  6. How the internet is reshaping World Heritage and our experience of it
  7. land degradation is turning soils into deserts
  8. Senate newcomer Tim Storer plays hardball on company tax
  9. John Blaxland on Australia's expulsion of Russian spies
  10. Why family violence leave should be paid
  11. Queensland has saved a Hollywood blockbuster, but the local film industry is still missing out
  12. Victorian drug law reform recommendations are welcome – but must include prisoners
  13. How complementary medicine practitioners can help get kids vaccinated
  14. Not everyone can say #MeToo and we need to tackle the causes of sexual violence
  15. why does lemon juice lighten the colour of tea?
  16. Curious Kids: Why are we ticklish?
  17. the City of Sydney's efforts to increase the affordable housing supply
  18. Private health insurance premium increases explained in 14 charts
  19. Do you really need private health insurance? Here's what you need to know before deciding
  20. Why Europe shouldn't follow Australia's lead on asylum seekers
  21. China’s falling space station highlights the problem of space junk crashing to Earth
  22. What happens when companies remove expiry dates on gift cards?
  23. With affection and humour, Patricia Piccinini probes the boundaries of human and other
  24. Africa's great migrations are failing but there is a solution
  25. Government defers company tax cut vote for want of numbers
  26. Is counter-attack justified against a state-sponsored cyber attack? It's a legal grey area
  27. The West increases pressure with diplomatic expulsions, but Russia is unlikely to cave
  28. Why schools become battlegrounds during conflict
  29. Start resetting your kids' body clocks before daylight saving ends – here's how
  30. Australia would be better if we'd heeded Pauline Hanson's message more: Tony Abbott
  31. Rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment: what’s the difference?
  32. What governments can learn from Perth's property market
  33. Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own
  34. Australia expels two Russian spies as part of international push against Russia
  35. Climate policy is a fiendish problem for governments – time for an independent authority with real powers
  36. Why Australians need a national environment protection agency to safeguard their health
  37. Men and young people more likely to be ageist: study
  38. Kids with autism less likely to be fully vaccinated
  39. Darwin's paying the price after Cyclone Marcus
  40. when religious freedom and LGBTI rights intersect
  41. Lisa Reihana's Emissaries is a vital retelling of colonial history
  42. how elite schools are struggling with the pressure to excel
  43. Pensioners would retain cash refunds on franked dividends under Labor backdown
  44. Why China is a leader in intellectual property (and what the US has to do with it)
  45. We're still playing catch up with academia's longstanding #MeToo sexual harassment problem
  46. The day Australian cricket lost its integrity and a country reacted with shock and anger
  47. How birth interventions affect babies' health in the short and long term
  48. Future 'ocean cities' need green engineering above and below the waterline
  49. Full response from a spokesperson for Paul Fletcher for a FactCheck on electricity prices and renewable energy policy
  50. are South Australia's high electricity prices 'the consequence' of renewable energy policy?

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