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Murky waters: why is Japan still whaling in the Southern Ocean?

  • Written by Indi Hodgson-Johnston, Antarctic Law Researcher, PhD Candidate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania
imageA photo from Sea Shepherd allegedly shows a Japanese whaling vessel with a dead minke whale on board. EPA/GLENN LOCKITCH / SEA SHEPHERD HANDOUT

Photographs allegedly showing Japanese whaling operations in the Southern Ocean emerged this week. Coinciding with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Australia, critics have called for grea...

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Turnbull makes a good start on expenses, but needs to go further

  • Written by Colleen Lewis, Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
imageMalcolm Turnbull is to be congratulated for taking action to curb expenses scandals.AAP/Michael Wade

It is regrettable that the path leading to the establishment of an independent body to oversee the work-related expenses of parliamentarians has been so tortuous. It is also regrettable that it took such an inordinate amount of time for a political...

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Taking a VR trip in Shaun Gladwell's floating planetoid skull

  • Written by Kit Messham-Muir, Associate professor in Art, Curtin University
imageA still image from Orbital Venus.Shaun Gladwell

You’re in orbit. Beneath you is the Earth, almost completely in darkness, and in the distance an object momentarily eclipses the sun. It comes closer – it’s a human skull – and it swallows you whole.

You spend the next few minutes skirting its cavernous interior, narrowly...

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What’s the point of sex? It frames gender expression and identity – or does it?

  • Written by Jayne Lucke, Professor & Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
imageSocial definitions of sex tend to oversimplify the biological determinants of gender and anatomy. renawgraphy/flickr , CC BY-SA

The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there’s more to sex than just the meeting of two sets of genes. The...

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  1. Why learn spelling or maths if there's an app for that?
  2. Brexit, Trump and the TPP mean Australia should pursue more bilateral trade agreements
  3. Australia needs to make sport a more equal playing field: here's why
  4. When politicians become pundits
  5. When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing
  6. The trouble with 'microaggressions'
  7. Let's kill the Australian identity card zombie once and for all
  8. Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players
  9. Elevated lead levels in Sydney backyards: here's what you can do
  10. When care becomes control - financial abuse cuts across cultures
  11. What's the point of sex? It's good for your physical, social and mental health
  12. Who was Mary? And how plausible is Colm Tóibín's reconstruction of her?
  13. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?
  14. A new twist on fusion power could help bring limitless clean energy
  15. What we can all learn from the VW emissions saga
  16. Scents, sensibility and the smell of a city
  17. ASIC needs a win in 2017, but it's not likely to come from the banks
  18. How wearable devices are reinventing our cities as open-air gyms
  19. Health Check: is snoring anything to worry about?
  20. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder finally hits the big-data highway
  21. Heed Hawke's call – Australian federalism is an idea whose time has ended
  22. The mosquito-borne Zika virus can also be transmitted by sexual activity
  23. What's the point of sex? It's communication at a biological level
  24. Game, set and match-fix: what more can be done to stop corruption in tennis?
  25. What can the medieval King Roger teach us about tolerance?
  26. Thinking about a sustainable retrofit? Here are three things to consider
  27. Australia must make the environment integral to economic decision-making
  28. Why did US President Obama seek to punish female Russian hacker Alisa Shevchenko?
  29. WA ReachTEL: 52-48 to Labor, but One Nation at 10.8%
  30. Ley goes, and Turnbull's reforms pave way for fewer expenses scandals
  31. Centrelink data-matching problems show the need for a government blockchain
  32. Should over 50’s avoid that afternoon coffee? Maybe.
  33. Trump, Putin and the new international order
  34. Indonesia’s Minangkabau culture promotes empowered Muslim women
  35. 9 ways 'won’t-power' is better than 'willpower' for resisting temptation and helping you eat better
  36. What is heart failure? It's not as common a cause of death as reports would have us believe
  37. How the insights of the Large Hadron Collider are being made open to everyone
  38. Is FIFA expanding the football World Cup for the good of the game?
  39. Are our busy doctors and nurses losing empathy for patients?
  40. For gangs with a social media presence like Apex, there’s no such thing as bad publicity
  41. Myuran Sukumaran's voice in his first exhibition is raw, premature and unsettling
  42. Hot dogs and cool cats: keeping pets cool without blowing your energy bill
  43. We need to find new ways to measure the Australian labour force
  44. Five things to consider when designing a policy to measure research impact
  45. How to manage Russia becomes one of the most pressing questions in US, and world, affairs
  46. Shorter or longer tennis matches: what's the right balance?
  47. Putin, the political technologist
  48. Explainer: why has Rod Culleton been disqualified from the Senate?
  49. Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
  50. 'I'm not a mind reader': understanding your partner's thoughts can be both good and bad

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