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The excitement over the announcement of a space agency for Australia has now quietened. So it’s time to work out what we want, and how to get there.
Neither the spurious ‘facts’ about killings of police nor the supposedly ‘colour-blind’ logic of the backlash against Black Lives Matter hold up under scrutiny. Instead, they confirm its point.
A new study has found bodyweight exercises you can do at home are just as good as a gym workout.
The short answer is no. But worms can use different parts of their body to do some of the jobs that our tongues do - like tasting and crushing food.
Laws passed by MPs while under a citizenship cloud are unlikely to be contested; decisions made by ministers after doubts about their dual citizenship was announced are more complicated matters.
Business Briefing: the business of prisons
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Prisons are big business in Australia. Companies not only run entire prisons but provide many of the services. But what does the research say about the impact?
After much lobbying, the TGA has announced it will crack down on dodgy stem cell clinics.
China’s newly elected leadership team promises to bring continuity in the country’s gradual domestic reform and a stronger focus on internationalism.
Climate change may be a business opportunity, but research shows that market forces serve to systematically undermine climate change programs.
Compared with their counterparts in other democratic countries, South Korea’s national public broadcasters are politically vulnerable.
Stillbirth deeply and profoundly affects parents and families. Here are five actions in response to this hidden tragedy.
There are telltale signs when regard for the facts of the matter is sacrificed to ‘truthiness’ to win a political debate.
The NBN has to be equitable to be a truly nation-building platform. As long as it is failing some, it is failing us all in Australia.
Framing freedom of speech and cultural sensitivity as competing goals makes us miss opportunities to develop cross-cultural competency.
Some parents think their four-year-old boy’s emotional outbursts and aggressive behaviour can be blamed on their hormones. Here’s why that’s a myth.
High grades might be awarded to papers that show the structural features of highly persuasive writing – papers that follow the “persuasion script”, so to speak.
The drug we know induces the best death for suffering patients is still illegal in Australia.
There are good reasons to be concerned about the procedures used for voter registration in many countries, including many long-established democracies.
Children can have heart disease too, and many are born with it.
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Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor in History, University of Sydney
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ARC DECRA Fellow in Hydrology, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in European Studies, University of Sydney
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Lecturer of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Officer Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Ethnobiology, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Research Assistant, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Design and Computation, University of Sydney
