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'Epic Duck Challenge' shows drones can outdo people at surveying wildlife

  • Written by: Jarrod Hodgson, PhD Candidate, University of Adelaide
'Epic Duck Challenge' shows drones can outdo people at surveying wildlifeA drone image of a breeding colony of Greater Crested Terns. Researchers used plastic bird decoys to replicate this species in an experiment that compared different ways of counting wildlife.Jarrod Hodgson, CC BY-ND

Ecologists are increasingly using drones to gather data. Scientists have used remotely piloted aircraft to estimate the health of fragi...

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Nationals president urges party: Don't act hastily on Barnaby

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Nationals’ federal president, Larry Anthony, has appealed to the party to give Barnaby Joyce “time”, as the Deputy Prime Minister’s future sits on a knife edge.

Anthony, who flew to Canberra for talks on the crisis late Tuesday, said afterwards: “It’s been an extraordinarily difficult time for the National...

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The Barnaby Joyce affair highlights Australia's weak regulation of ministerial staffers

  • Written by: Yee-Fui Ng, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
The Barnaby Joyce affair highlights Australia's weak regulation of ministerial staffersBarnaby Joyce has denied he breached ministerial standards with the employment of his partner, Vikki Campion.AAP/Mick Tsikas

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce continues to face questions about the employment of his former media adviser – now current partner – Vicki Campion. Campion left Joyce’s office last year to take another...

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As the world looks to put cities on a sustainable path, the Australian government goes missing

  • Written by: Barbara Norman, Chair of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of Canberra Urban & Regional Futures, University of Canberra, Honorary Professor, University of Warwick

No water for Cape Town, no transport for communities on the urban edge, red alert days for urban pollution, extreme events with climate change, and the loss of open space and biodiversity as cities spread: these are all clear signals that we are living beyond our means. Global leaders can now physically see the risks facing our communities and the...

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  1. The New Payments Platform may mean faster transactions, but it won't be safer
  2. Why the not-for-profit cultural sector needs tailor-made copyright safe harbours
  3. What is your real 'biological age', and what does this mean for your health?
  4. The shocking facts revealed: how sharks and other animals evolved electroreception to find their prey
  5. What makes a winning mogul skier like Matt Graham?
  6. Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?
  7. Why the Jacquie Lambie Network's Tasmanian health plan doesn't add up
  8. How snow-deprived Aussies can win in snowboard cross and ski-cross in Pyeongchang
  9. Guide to the classics: Sappho, a poet in fragments
  10. Key workers like nurses and teachers are being squeezed out of Sydney. This is what we can do about it
  11. Same-sex marriage is legal, so why have churches been so slow to embrace it?
  12. Politics podcast: Brian Howe on revisiting Henderson, poverty and basic income
  13. Queensland Nationals Barry O'Sullivan's advice on the Joyce affair: 'don't shoot your best horse'
  14. Australia is missing the Closing the Gap employment target by decades
  15. I'm not overweight, so why do I need to eat healthy foods?
  16. Bad politics shouldn't sink good ideas for public interest journalism
  17. Predictive algorithms are no better at telling the future than a crystal ball
  18. Three reasons why the gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians aren't closing
  19. Fixing cities' water crises could send our climate targets down the gurgler
  20. Live from Pyeongchang: how an Olympic broadcast works
  21. Closing the gap on Indigenous education must start with commitment and respect
  22. To close the health gap, we need programs that work. Here are three of them
  23. Why the Commonwealth should resist meddling in schools
  24. Science Meets Parliament doesn't let the rest of us off the hook
  25. Curious Kids: why doesn't lava melt the side of the volcano?
  26. Banks and financial providers one step ahead of consumers who struggle with personal bias
  27. Governments can't be trusted to deliver welfare standards for chickens
  28. The rise and fall of Ben Ean Moselle and what it says about Australian society
  29. King tides and rising seas are predictable, and we're not doing enough about it
  30. US approach to security is deeply troubling – and it's not just about Trump
  31. Closing the Gap results still lag, as Shorten pledges compensation fund for Stolen Generations
  32. Labor moves in on the Barnaby Joyce affair
  33. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the private lives of our politicians
  34. Health Check: how can extreme heat lead to death?
  35. Two Koreas working together on Winter Olympics is a small but important step toward peace
  36. Hidden depths: why groundwater is our most important water source
  37. Five active volcanoes on my Asia Pacific 'Ring of Fire' watch-list right now
  38. Kokoda Track blockade alludes to deeper development issues in Papua New Guinea
  39. How copyright law is holding back Australian creators
  40. Sustainable shopping: your guilt-free guide to flowers this Valentine's Day
  41. Public hospital blame game – here's how we got into this funding mess
  42. Essays On Air: Why grown-ups still need fairy tales
  43. Vital Signs: future expectations causing sharemarket gyrations and interest rate doubts
  44. Proposed new regulations for 3D printed medical devices must go further
  45. The larrikin as leader: how Bob Hawke came to be one of the best (and luckiest) prime ministers
  46. This is how WestConnex can deliver Sydney a better city centre
  47. Friday essay: ‘It’s not over in the homes’ – impotence, domestic violence and former POWs
  48. Grattan on Friday: Is Barnaby's baby a matter of public interest or just of interest to the public?
  49. World-first genetic analysis reveals Aussie white shark numbers
  50. Does a sugar tax cause alcohol sales to spike? The research doesn't give a decisive answer

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