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The impending disaster for Julia Gillard’s government at the federal election could also spell trouble for the hopes of the Greens in the Senate.
AAP/Alan Porritt
The publicly available opinion polls are in agreement about the fate of the Labor government. A landslide defeat in the House of Representatives is looming, the magnitude of which might place Julia Gillard…
Our attitudes towards religious institutions - in particular the Catholic Church - has changed as scandal and controversy afflicts the former bastion of faith.
AAP/Simon Mossman
As a young girl in the 1960s, I attended a Catholic boarding school. The nuns could be scary. When they walked the wintry and un-illuminated corridors of the convent, their knee-length rosary beads jangled…
Australia’s media culture gets in the way of asking politicians serious questions about climate change.
AAP Image/Dean Lewins
Four months ago, the big media proprietors were fighting proposed federal government press reforms, arguing that “the press” needs freedom if it is to defend the public interest. But these arguments were…
An expanding population means more cars on the road than ever before. So how can maths help ease traffic congestion?
Mr. T in DC
Mathematics may not be the first thing your mind turns to when you are caught in a traffic jam. Yet mathematics holds the key to understanding how traffic congestion develops, and how to prevent it. Perhaps…
Hands-on problem solving methods will help students become - and stay - engaged with maths and science.
Thompson Rivers
MATHS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION: We’ve asked our authors about the state of maths and science education in Australia and its future direction. In this instalment, Chancellor of Monash University Alan Finkel…
Precautionary labels are present on more than half of all packaged processed foods in Australian supermarkets.
Bruce A Stockwell
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation and Pauline Ernesto, The Conversation
Parents of children with a history of the potentially life-threatening allergic reaction anaphylaxis often ignore precautionary labels on foods because they find them unhelpful and confusing, research…
Does Julia Gillard’s record on gender advancement actually stack up when compared to her attacks on opposition leader Tony Abbott?
AAP/Tony McDonough
Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser had his war on Gough Whitlam by trying to roll back Medibank and the overuse of Section 96 grants. Labor’s Bob Hawke had a war on childhood poverty. Paul Keating had…
Angelina Jolie has a double mastectomy after discovering she carried a mutation of the BRAC1 gene.
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
Millions of women in the US will have access to affordable genetic screening for cancer after the US Supreme Court ruled that a commercial company cannot patent human genes. The screening tests for mutations…
If there is a ‘root and branch’ review of competition laws after the next election, it should be led by a group of sexagenarians. That is, people aged at least sixty. Why? Because they will remember how…
People with body dysmorphic disorder have an excessive fear of looking ugly or disfigured.
DeeAshley/Flickr
When people think of mental problems related to body image, often the first thing that comes to mind is the thin figure associated with anorexia. Body dysmorphic disorder is less well known, but has around…
The sexual activity of the southern bottletail squid involves choosy females eating losers’ ejaculate.
Saspotato
In romantic circles, reproduction is viewed as a harmonious venture between the sexes. After all, if you aim to produce the best offspring possible, wouldn’t it also be best to cooperate with your partner…
If we want to address the Sri Lankan asylum seeker in Australia, we need to invest in addressing problems at the source.
AAP Image/Ron D'Raine
Sri Lanka is at a crossroads. After the end of a long civil war, the country has an historic opportunity to draw on its strengths and riches to create a unified, prosperous and just society. But it is…
“Induced” out-of-body experiences differ from those occurring spontaneously.
Louish Pixel
Have you ever felt as though your sense of awareness was outside of your physical body? That you were looking back at yourself from another place in the same room? If so, you’ve probably had an out-of-body…
Their civil war may have ended, but the number of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka are on the increase.
EPA/Wisnu Adi
In the debate about Sri Lankan asylum seekers in Australia, one question seems to come up again and again. Why, when the bloody twenty-six-year conflict that caused so many to leave their homes has ended…
The demise of Better Place, shows the difficulty of moving between idea and commercial success. In particular, it illustrates how ‘radical’ change can be defeated by the ‘chicken and egg’ problem. Better…
A lot of the illness we think of being caused by the ‘flu’ is actually due to other viruses.
Kim Keegan
Facts about Flu - Perhaps the misery you feel when ill in winter isn’t the fault of the much-maligned influenza virus after all. RSV, hMPV, CoV… these may all sound like random acronyms, but they are influenza’s…
Should Australia go beyond exporting uranium “yellowcake” and consider fabricating nuclear fuel rods?
Flickr/NNSA News
It is not the first time in Australia’s economic history that a prevalent sector reaches its peak and gives way to a rapidly developing new one. However, while the mining and education sectors have apparently…
What manner of repercussions could Australia anticipate from any British withdrawal from the European Union?
EPA/Andy Rain
British divisions over Europe have something of a “groundhog day” feel to them, even if the current Conservative rift seems like a particularly damaging instance. The stakes are high: the United Kingdom’s…
Left: environment of the early tetrapod (Acanthostega) and tetrapodomorph fish (Eusthenopteron). Right: the axolotl and Australian lungfish.
Catherine Boisvert
Around 395 million years ago, the first tetrapod (four-legged animal) wandered out of its watery home and stepped onto land. This was made possible by the evolution of weight-bearing hips consisting of…
The deployment of the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile systems (pictured) to Syria has caused tensions to rise among Western powers.
LuchezarS.
As the civil war in Syria continues, several states are now decrying the potential deployment of the Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. Described as a move to cool “hothead” pro-interventionists…
Respiratory Allergy Stream member, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University