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Probably not, but that might be for the best if it encourages countries to be more ambitious in their commitments, rather than playing it safe to avoid falling foul of legal obligations.
Almost all of the decision-makers in horse racing are male, and they almost invariably favour their own sex.
2014 saw heatwaves of all kinds and other wild weather. Research can now explain that climate change made these events much more likely.
The tax mix switch logic the government seems to be pursuing is unlikely to have the desired effect.
A large number of children with malaria in the Asia-Pacific have relapses of the disease, not new infections. Malaria-programs must target these latent infections to completely eliminate the disease.
Australia was once a world leader in organ donations, but today it lags much of the developed world. William Isdale speaks with Aric Bendorf about how to improve Australia's organ donation rates.
Automated vehicles are set to shake up the business model of the automotive industry, resulting in less people owning cars and many more sharing instead.
What is creativity? Tomes as thick as car tyres have been written addressing this question. The recently-released Global Creativity Index offers some answers but that doesn’t mean they’re the right ones.
In comments reported in a new book to mark the 40th anniversary of the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott offer sharply differing views.
The predictable path into prison for Aboriginal people with disabilities is preventable. Here are some solutions.
Current incentives used to recruit more teachers to work in rural and regional schools aren’t working. But could the health sector offer up some possible solutions?
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug with more than 181 million consumers worldwide, three quarters of whom are men. Why do men and women use cannabis?
Some Australian birds are pushing out other species, and even damaging trees. The good news is we can help stop the spread of these birds, by putting native plants in our gardens.
Myanmar is holding elections, but like the many other authoritarian regimes that do so, it isn’t for democratic reasons and regime change remains highly unlikely.
Trials of autonomous vehicles are set to kick off in Australia this year. So how far down the road to driverless cars are we today?
The new Australian film Tanna, which won two awards at Venice Film Festival, is as much a tale about romance as it is globalisation.
Japan has followed Britain in privatising its postal service. Australia should be next.
Mainstream Australia isn’t allowed to define multicultural priorities, as the policy has no legislative legitimacy.
The current GST debate slides over the issue of compensation - proposals so far are poorly defined and run into cost and fairness problems.
Let’s look at whether the arguments against cow’s milk stack up.
A fall in vital trace elements in our oceans could be one of the driving forces behind a number of mass extinction events during Earth’s history.
Much has been written about vocal fry in recent years, with the focus on what it is, where it comes from and what it means … at least when it comes to females who fry. What’s really going on here?
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
Aboriginal people with mental and cognitive disability are managed mostly by police, courts, prison and hospitals. It’s costing us millions, when kinder and cheaper alternatives exist.