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New research has found that carbon intensive companies have lost focus on reducing emissions under Direct Action, when compared with the carbon tax.
What are ASIO’s powers in detaining and questioning terror suspects? Does it need more to be effective?
Today, there are more than 20 cryptomarkets selling illicit drugs, or more than 55 if single-vendor markets are included.
We need to have fewer teachers, to pay them more on scales differentiated by skill, and to have more restricted entry into teacher education programs.
A new “toolkit” of suggested climate policies looks politically feasible, but it’s too complicated and not ambitious enough to drive a real move to a low-carbon economy.
Mass tourism in Bali is causing the island to face imminent groundwater crisis.
Australian history is already a hotly contested discipline but is it time to broaden our definitions of the canon? Might an indigenous rock painting or a novel or a poem constitute a work of history?
What’s the best way to find out how people will cope with the journey to Mars and life on another planet? Lock a test crew up for a year in a simulation right here on Earth.
The press gallery’s mid-winter ball, held on Wednesday, has become an institution. It raises money for charities as well as being an all-round good knees-up for media and politicians.
In the first sitting of the new parliament, conservatives within the government have muscled a proposed amendment to the Racial Discrimination Act onto the agenda.
A rise in cases of the mysterious “Bairnsdale ulcer” in coastal Victoria has health authorities on alert and scientists investigating the role of mosquitoes in the spread.
Large-scale natural experiments such as oil spills, tsunamis and climate change are things you wouldn’t want to do on purpose. But that doesn’t mean they’re not scientifically useful experiments too.
Here’s to the Kodak camera, the transistor TV, the portable typewriter and other casualties of a throwaway age. They may be old hat but they are objects of beauty, as a new exhibition shows.
The debate around amending Section 18C is a furphy: the law is there to guard against the most-damaging vilification, and very few cases end up in court.
The Australian government should look to the private sector to fund, develop and run more urban rail projects.
What is meant by a ‘foreign’ political donation? And why should such donations be better regulated?
Ireland is the latest country to offer two years of preschool education to all children. Is it time Australia followed suit?
An Indonesian expert in Australian studies weighs in on the recent survey of Australian-Indonesian perceptions.
How do inequities of wealth and income manifest in Australia? And what are the implications for the nation’s health?
We all like to think we are free agents and have huge degrees of agency. But, in reality, our health reflects the environments we live in.
There is little evidence that external inspections and evaluation measures produce better teachers.
Amatrice’s still-standing ancient clocktower has become an iconic image from last week’s deadly earthquake. But it is not the only unusual survivor.
Change Agents: Establishing a national women’s football league
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Andrew Dodd talks to Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee about their fight to overcome prejudice and establish a national women's AFL competition.
If the world starts to restrict trade and crack down on foreign investment, it will affect China’s growth, which will in turn affect the world.