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'I can live with either one': Palestine, Israel and the two-state solution

  • Written by: Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
imageIn leaving open the option of a single-state solution, Donald Trump recently broke with two decades of international diplomacy.Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

President Donald Trump has effectively abandoned long-standing US policy on how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Appearing alongside visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last...

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In the rooms of power and ordinary people, Bligh's banking appointment is a masterstroke

  • Written by: George Rennie, PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne
imageAnna Bligh is now the chief spokesperson for an industry that fares poorly in the public eye.AAP/Dan Peled

The Australian Banking Association (ABA), backed by the banks’ financial and political clout, has not yet made its mark in the way the mining or gaming industries have. But this is threatening to change. The appointment of Anna Bligh to...

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Some brain training programs are backed by evidence. Here's how to pick them

  • Written by: Tejal Shah, Visiting Fellow , Edith Cowan University
imageBrain training programs support healthy brain ageing – but you've got to choose the right one. from www.shutterstock.com

Brain training has been touted as a way to prevent age-related cognitive decline. Many products are available for purchase. But are any actually effective?

We reviewed the merits of peer-reviewed clinical intervention...

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WA's decision to allow internet voting in state election is a very positive step

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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The WA Electoral Commission has made a significant move towards internet voting for all by allowing people with an incapacity or disability making it difficult to vote, or vote in secret, to vote in the upcoming state elections via the internet.

The iVote system developed by the New South Wales Electoral...

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  1. A critical guide to the Oscar Best Pic contenders – and why Moonlight should win
  2. Gambling lobby gives big to political parties, and names names
  3. Why there's no legal barrier to a Melbourne drug injecting room, despite political setbacks
  4. Too hot to learn – why Australian schools need a national policy on coping with heatwaves
  5. Push for longer hours makes headlines, but more Australians want to work less
  6. Seven Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting a nearby star
  7. Australia’s 2016 environment scorecard: rains return but in some cases too late
  8. Shorten goes on front foot over renewables 50% 'target'
  9. Fact or fiction – is sugar addictive?
  10. New physics syllabus raises the bar, but how will schools clear it?
  11. No mandatory novels or poetry – what you need to know about the new HSC English curriculum
  12. Dutton blows Turnbull's credibility – for now and perhaps for later
  13. Yes, we can do on-the-spot drug testing quickly and safely
  14. How South Australia can function reliably while moving to 100% renewable power
  15. Business students willing to sacrifice future salary for good corporate social responsibility: study
  16. City streets become a living lab that could transform your daily travel
  17. Intrigue, lucky charms and painful longing: the art of Helen Britton
  18. Life imprisonment raises questions about proportionality, equity and human dignity
  19. Essendon air crash: what will the investigators be looking for?
  20. Playing politics with renewables: how the right is losing its way
  21. Trump, déjà un mois, et ce n’est que le début…
  22. How predictable are the Oscars? More than you might think
  23. Netanyahu's visit prompts Australia to rethink its relationship with Israel
  24. No animal required, but would people eat artificial meat?
  25. Tax and dividend: how conservatives can grow to love carbon pricing
  26. What's most likely to kill you? Measuring how deadly our daily activities are
  27. Why algorithms won't necessarily lead to utopian workplaces
  28. Government losing the argument on energy, according to poll
  29. Trump and the cycle of dehumanisation
  30. How we kept disease-spreading Asian Tiger mozzies away from the Australian mainland
  31. Trainspotting on stage brings a disturbing reality vividly to life
  32. Mount Isa contamination 'within guidelines' but residents told to clean their homes
  33. There are some difficult questions to ask Netanyahu, but boycotting his visit won't answer them
  34. APRA fiddles on bank risk while Rome burns
  35. Which supplements work? New labels may help separate the wheat from the chaff
  36. Labor's climate policy could remove the need for renewable energy targets
  37. Bystanders often don't intervene in sexual harassment – but should they?
  38. PewDiePie, new media stars and the court of public opinion
  39. WestConnex audit offers another $17b lesson in how not to fund infrastructure
  40. Morrison's tanty over bankers hiring Anna Bligh was arrogant and absurd
  41. Australia's march towards corporatocracy
  42. The anatomy of an energy crisis – a pictorial guide, Part 2
  43. Explainer: trickle-down economics
  44. FactCheck Q A: was it four degrees hotter 110,000 years ago?
  45. Response from a spokesman for Jacqui Lambie for a FactCheck on climate change
  46. Health Check: are naps good for us?
  47. Diminishing city: hope, despair and Whyalla
  48. Emotional fallout: Little Emperors brings China's one-child policy to the stage
  49. Imaging study confirms differences in ADHD brains
  50. Should Victoria introduce a swifter model of sentencing family violence offenders?

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