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Australia among the world's worst on biodiversity conservation

  • Written by: Noel D Preece, Adjunct Principal Research Fellow at Charles Darwin and, James Cook University
imageA long-term monitoring project in Simpson Desert provides crucial information about the ecosystem.Mina Guli/Flickr, CC BY-NC

Australia is among the top seven countries worldwide responsible for 60% of the world’s biodiversity loss between 1996 and 2008, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature.

The researchers examined...

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Grattan on Friday: Turnbull government reels from new twist in the Parry affair

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageThe Prime Minister's current mood about how all this is playing out can be easily imagined.Dan Peled/AAP

The sudden exit from parliament of Senate president Stephen Parry has turned into a toxic blame game, in a further sign of a government crumbling into chaos.

Malcolm Turnbull and deputy Senate leader Mathias Cormann lashed out at Parry for not...

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Trump's tour of Asia-Pacific is vital for the stability of the region

  • Written by: Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
imageFrom an Australian perspective, Donald's Trump Asian tour could hardly be more important.Reuters/Yuri Gripas

Not for several presidential cycles, and perhaps not since Richard Nixon’s visit to China to initial the Shanghai Communique in 1972, has a visit to Asia assumed such significance – and one that is potentially fraught.

US...

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