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Why 'green-black' alliances are less simple than they seem

  • Written by: Timothy Neale, Research Fellow, Deakin University
imageCertain traditional owners and conservation groups allied to stand against a planned gas hub in Western Australia's Kimberley region.AAP Image/Tim Gentles

In Australia and across the world, Indigenous people are resisting developments that threaten their lands. Wangan and Jagalingou people stand in opposition to the planned Carmichael coalmine in...

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Grattan on Friday: One Nation blows WA campaign but will Hanson’s supporters care?

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Saturday’s Western Australian election will be decided overwhelmingly on state factors but its outcome will rumble into Canberra.

If the Barnett government is defeated, not only will Malcolm Turnbull have to contend with one more state Labor government but the Coalition backbench and the wider conservative constituency will become even more...

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Politics podcast: WA election – Mark McGowan accuses Turnbull of bluffing

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The end of the mining boom has hit many people in Western Australia hard, and this has flowed strongly into the election. Debt and deficit are besetting the state budget. In this final podcast from Perth, we talk to economist Alan Duncan about the challenges for the state’s economy and for whoever forms government after Saturday, as WA...

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Research Check: will using lice products give my children behavioural problems?

  • Written by: Ian Rae, Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
imagePyrethroids can be found in some head-lice products.from shutterstock.com

Reports of a French study claimed last week that exposure to certain insecticides during pregnancy were linked to “abnormal behaviour” in children.

Called pyrethroids, these chemicals are present in some common treatments for dog ticks and head lice. The Daily Mail...

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  4. Democracy needs more trees and less Trump
  5. Weekly Dose: while the media panic about ice, we should worry about carfentanil
  6. FactCheck: does Western Australia have the highest unemployment in the country?
  7. The great movie scenes: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  8. Contested spaces: we need to see public space through older eyes too
  9. Face Value: sentiment analysis shows business leaders are positive about the year ahead
  10. DNA reveals Aboriginal people had a long and settled connection to country
  11. Roe 8: Perth's environmental flashpoint in the WA election
  12. Indonesia vows to tackle marine pollution
  13. Selective schools increasingly cater to the most advantaged students
  14. Banning orders won't solve alcohol-fuelled violence – but they can be part of the solution
  15. Here's Looking at: Brook Andrew's Sexy and dangerous
  16. Health Check: do men really sweat more than women?
  17. Politics podcast: WA poll – Kim Beazley on One Nation
  18. ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, February 2017
  19. Warm for the human form, from Rodin's bronzes to stone slabs
  20. Why 'digital gold' won't ever kill off the real thing
  21. Here's how citizen power can drive mental health reform
  22. Contested spaces: a user's guide to shared paths
  23. WikiLeaks Vault 7 reveals staggering breadth of 'CIA hacking'
  24. Why we're marching for science in Australia
  25. FactCheck Q A: are there laws to protect against 'revenge porn' in Australia?
  26. The Science of Leading
  27. The fragility of women's rights: how female guilds wielded power long ago
  28. Unconscious bias is keeping women out of senior roles, but we can get around it
  29. Girls with early first periods become women with greater risk of gestational diabetes
  30. Contested spaces: you can't stop the music – the sounds that divide shoppers
  31. Speaking with: Peter Green on saving the Christmas Island red crab
  32. The eyes have it: how vision may have driven fishes onto land
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  35. Is there a test your child can take before getting vaccinated, as Pauline Hanson said?
  36. ABC restructuring: leaner, but hopefully not meaner
  37. Explainer: what are chemical weapons and how do soldiers guard against them?
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  39. Why women make the best stock traders
  40. Australia's almost a world leader in home building, so that isn't a fix for affordability
  41. Five-yearly environmental stocktake highlights the conflict between economy and nature
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  43. Millennials in the workplace: not as different as you think
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  46. Company results: how competition is transforming Australia's retail sector
  47. How clergy became scapegoats of the sex abuse crisis in the Anglican Church
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