Immigration Minister Peter Dutton will have the sole power to strip dual nationals of their Australia citizenship if they are believed to be involved in terrorist activities.
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Simply having judicial review for the contentious power to strip citizenship from dual nationals suspected of involvement with terrorism – without independent merits review – is far from reasonable.
Forms of methamphetamines that can be smoked or injected have greater risks.
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Much media attention is being given to the rising toll of methamphetamine-related harm in Australia, fuelled by the increased availability and use of high purity crystalline meth.
Different questions for low and high achievers is actually beneficial for judging how students at each end of the spectrum are going.
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Tailored testing where the test gets easier or harder depending on how the student is faring actually gives us a better idea of how students are going.
Fury Road revisits the originality of Australian New Wave film-making by representing absurd, new and null cultural signs.
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Mad Max: Fury Road has generated heated coverage since its release last month. But focussing on the film’s terse script may be missing the point: it should be read as a poem, and a provocative one at that.
There are fewer than 50 Orange-bellied Parrots left in the wild.
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After falling victim to disease, there seems to be little hope left for Australia’s most endangered parrot.
The sharing economy is moving rapidly but we haven’t yet figured out how it will impact traditional workplace norms.
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With the momentum of the sharing economy growing, we’re only just starting to come to grips with what it means for the future of work.
Health professionals may be sentenced to two years in jail for the unauthorised disclosure of information about conditions in detention centres.
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Can history and fiction really be kept separate? A special edition of journal TEXT examines historical fictions and fictional histories. Here, the editors map out the contested territory.
Policymakers and the outcomes they produce can play a powerful role in shaping public opinion on questions of same-sex rights.
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Could developed countries’ ageing populations help clean up the climate? New research suggests that a 1% increase in the proportion of over-65s delivers a 1.5% cut in carbon dioxide emissions.
Most of us are familiar with the National Lampoon films of the 70s and 80s. But this documentary offers insight into the magazine of the same name and the questionable dynamics of modern satire.
Prior to world war one, many more soldiers died of infection rather than combat.
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Rupert Brooke was commissioned in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as a Sub-Lieutenant. Without seeing combat, he died aboard a French hospital ship, from a mosquito bite that turned septic.
Australians would be left with more to retire on if inefficiencies in the super sector were reduced.
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The superannuation sector argues it is competitive, but that doesn’t mean it’s efficient.
Discussing the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship is pointless without more information on the nature and justification of what is proposed.
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Most of the government’s discussion paper is devoted to framing citizenship in a way that is conducive to its proposal to strip dual nationals involved in terrorist activities of their citizenship.
You don’t share your phone with strangers Mum, so I’m not sharing my doll with her.
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Should we teach our kids to share their things considering adults don’t share their possessions? Shouldn’t kids be taught not to use things that aren’t theirs? Maybe we should just let them figure things out for themselves.
SBS Radio – now 40 years old – should draw on deep connections to its disparate language communities in Australia.
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Its increasingly corporate model aligns with mainstream media organisations, but SBS Radio needs to retain its community advocacy role – in the current climate more than ever.
Climate warming is predicted to intensify rainfall patterns. But new research suggests this could even happen within individual storms, as warmer weather makes them more likely to contain short intense bursts.
Hold on: before we bring dinosaurs back to life as in Jurassic World, we need to look at other extinct critters first.
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Jurassic World is opening in cinemas this Thursday and again raises the idea of resurrecting extinct creatures. But there’s plenty of other contenders before we even think of recreating dinosaurs.
School bullying takes its toll later in life too.
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Children who were bullied had more than a two-fold increase in odds of depression later in life compared with children not victimised by their peers.
If the proposals are agreed, they could delay the market entry of generic medicines in the region – and the impact will be felt around the world.
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Seven rounds of negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership have already taken place with virtually no public debate. The next round of negotiations begins today in Kyoto, Japan.
Generic medicines may have a different colour, shape, size and taste than the original brand.
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The intensity and the consistent presence of sonic textures such as machine noise, distorted high-frequency sounds, midrange drones, sub-sonic hums and the like have significantly shaped the contexts of our hearing.
A century after governments wished to erase the convict past, their place in Australian history was being celebrated in programs such as The Colony on SBS.
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Today, a convict ancestor is a matter of pride. But for past generations, including some convicts themselves, it was a shame that had to be hidden at all costs.
European New Zealanders have embraced and preserved the Māori culture and language far better than European Australians.
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