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The early solar system was a busy place with plenty of meteorite impacts on the new planets and moons. But finding evidence of such impacts on Earth can be tricky.
Convenience stores could be the next big focus for Australia’s grocery retailing giants.
Turnbull’s 21st century vision for government provides an opportunity to fundamentally rethink arts and cultural policy from the ground up and move beyond its 20th century legacy.
Elections Singapore-style are so heavily stacked in favour of the PAP, which has ruled for 56 years, that the country’s newly re-elected government is more authoritarian than democratic.
The most unequal state in Australia is NSW, while the least unequal state is Tasmania, according to new analysis.
The role of grandparents as the biggest providers of childcare is a huge blind spot in policy-making for workforce participation, childcare, early childhood education and retirement.
Labor has released a higher education policy intended to restart a discussion stalled by the failure of the Coalition’s deregulation package to pass the Senate. What is the point of the promised funding guarantee?
What if Malcolm Turbull’s conception of “21st-century government” imagines a healthy civil society and a responsive economy that values debate, imagination, difference and surprise - all provided by the arts.
The challenge for a 21st century Australian government is to capitalise on research and create new jobs, industries and opportunities for the coming century.
Few Australian women use long-acting reversible contraception, despite its advantages over other methods. These contraceptives offer women long-term, cost-effective, “fit-and-forget” contraception.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten told Q&A viewers that Australia is the most unequal it has been in 75 years. Is that statement supported by the research?
China, the world’s biggest greenhouse emitter, will set up a national emissions trading scheme beginning in 2017. Our experts react to the announcement, made during President Xi Jinping’s US state visit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made a landmark commitment on climate change, pledging to launch what will become the world’s largest and most important emissions trading scheme when it begins in 2017.
Our bodies have a complex system to control food intake, driven by hormones. Hormone levels also change when we gain and lose weight.
Sex is part of young people’s lives. So how do we teach young authors to navigate tricky narrative waters when they write about it?
Australia needs to treat and respond to domestic violence as a serious crime threat with risk mitigation and crime management strategies.
A rare super blood moon visible from parts of the Earth this month will delight those people lucky enough to see it. But why has this marvel of the solar system got some people so worried?
The key drivers for energy in the 21st century are managing climate change, shifting community concerns, and radical technology change.
Bill Shorten has said he wants to reduce the number of uni students dropping out. Here’s one way to do it.
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Reform to how Australia’s Senate is elected should happen – but only if it genuinely strengthens voters’ rights.
When Malcolm Turnbull boarded a Melbourne tram on Thursday for a newspaper photograph, a cheer went up from passengers.
We don’t know what will come out of the Senate inquiry into the ‘nanny state’, but we do have some idea about what Australia would look like based on libertarian principles.
With the gender pay gap refusing to go away, it’s time more people were encouraged to discuss their salary openly.