Australians will be asked to complete a voluntary, non-binding postal vote on marriage reform. Wouldn't it be easier - and cheaper - to do a sample survey instead?
Spain plays a relatively inconsequential role in the fight against Islamic State.
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The Voyager space probes sent back some amazing images of the planets in the outer Solar System, and they're still talking to Earth every day via Australia's tracking station.
When the H3N2 strain dominates, we see bigger flu seasons and cases affecting the elderly more than the young.
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By mid-August, the 2017 year had recorded more flu notifications across Australia than the previous five years. So why is the flu season so bad this time around?
Unless we design research programs to look at why people would rather stay on country than receive effective health treatments, Aboriginal health may not improve.
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Like all good health care, improving health in remote settings requires an evidence base. But forcing all research questions into the randomised controlled trial model is not the answer.
Dogs can reliably sniff out human blood, even after two years of environmental degradation.
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LaTara Rust, University of Technology Sydney and Shari Forbes, University of Technology Sydney
Blood-detection dogs work paw in hand with scientists and Australia's police to solve crimes and missing persons cases.
Cory Bernardi’s views on same-sex marriage may be crude and ignorant, but the media are nonetheless obligated to report how he uses his power.
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Smart city thinking makes good use of rapidly developing technology to help make cities work better, easier-to-navigate, safer, healthier and more enjoyable places to live.
Health campaigns to reduce obesity have been accused of fat shaming, so how can we address this health issue without making people feel bad about themselves?
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Humpback whales are deterred from their migration routes by the noise of air guns used to survey the ocean floor for oil and gas deposits, a new study has found.
With the eligibility of the Nationals’ leadership under question, Malcolm Turnbull has had a nightmarish week.
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Dallas Rogers speaks with Nicole Gurran about the rise of AirBnb and what the limited data publicly available can tell us about how it's blurring the line between residential property and tourism.
Phone manufacturers, like the Dutch company Fairphone, require suppliers of raw materials used in their phones to improve employment conditions for their workers.
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Businesses can use their purchasing power to change the actions of their suppliers and help to eradicate slavery - both in Australia and across the world.
If you tell a robot secrets, you might want to make sure it can forget them too.
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The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it's better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
The decision reveals the striking breadth of the government’s power to deal with asylum seekers and refugees in ways that directly contravene international law.
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The Australian government had and has the power to do things necessary to establish and maintain its immigration detention facility on Manus Island, despite detention violating PNG law.
Some conditions should be classified as normal in some people and don’t need treatment.
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Today the phrase 'all roads leads to Rome' means that there's more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.
Donald Trump may not have been the 1%’s preferred candidate, but he embodied its message.
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The primacy given to the car has shaped our cities, the roads that serve them and our very thinking about the place of driving in our lives. And it's a mindset that leaves cyclists highly vulnerable.
Respect the people in any same-sex marriage debate, but you don’t have to respect their views.
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Your ideas are not immune to criticism just because you express them with sincerity: people are worthy of respect, ideas are not.
Phosphenes are an experience of seeing light without light entering your eye. Bionic eye recipients use these to map out a visual scene.
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