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A woman in charge: Susan Kiefel to become chief justice of the High Court

  • Written by: Kcasey McLoughlin, Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle
imageSusan Kiefel after she was sworn in as a High Court judge in 2007. She is now Australia's first female High Court chief justice.AAP/Andrew Sheargold

It has taken a little over a century, but for the first time a woman will preside as chief justice of Australia’s High Court. The announcement that justice Susan Kiefel will replace Robert French...

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It's not just about Melbourne: why we need a national approach to 'thunderstorm asthma'

  • Written by: Guy Marks, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Australia
imageWhy didn't we learn the lessons from earlier thunderstorm asthma events? from www.shutterstock.com

The tragic deaths of at least six people, apparently from thunderstorm asthma, highlights the risk from environmental hazards, even in seemingly safe urban centres in developed nations like Australia.

Events such as these, and others like the Hazelwood...

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Will a UK-style lottery system really take Australia back to its Olympic glory days?

  • Written by: Lisa Gowthorp, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Bond University
imageThe Australian Sports Commission's John Wylie has reignited discussions about a UK-style lottery system to fund sport in Australia.AAP/Julian Smith

Australia recorded its lowest medal tally in 24 years at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. This prompted calls to examine the current funding model and seek alternative revenue streams.

Reports suggest...

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Seeing Ms Dhu: how photographs argue for human rights

  • Written by: Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia
imageA light graffiti image of Ms Dhu is projected on a building in Perth.Ethan Blue

Ms Dhu was a 22-year-old Yamatji woman who died in custody in the South Hedland Police Station in August 2014. Arrested for unpaid fines, she was already suffering from pneumonia and septicaemia caused by a broken rib, inflicted by her partner some months earlier. She...

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  3. Domestic violence also has an economic penalty – we need to tackle it
  4. How much coral has died in the Great Barrier Reef's worst bleaching event?
  5. 'It's your fault you got cancer': the blame game that doesn't help anyone
  6. Explainer: the good, the bad, and the ugly of algorithmic trading
  7. Aboriginal communities embrace technology, but they have unique cyber safety challenges
  8. Brandis and Turnbull stay mum on what the Attorney-General told the Solicitor-General
  9. How we built an Arduino-powered ping pong scoreboard
  10. Thanksgiving space dinners, threading Saturn’s rings and impossible warp drives
  11. FactCheck Q A: what are the facts on funding for domestic violence legal services in Australia?
  12. Full response from Nakkiah Lui
  13. Cooling-off periods for consumers don't work: study
  14. No politician can singlehandedly bring back coal – not even Donald Trump
  15. Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
  16. Health Check: why men wake up with erections
  17. Islamic religious texts must be read in context to understand blasphemy
  18. Comments on mobile
  19. A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
  20. Backpacker tax deal finally – at One Nation's 15% rate
  21. Australia is discriminating against investors and we're the poorer for it
  22. New laws are not necessarily the answer to counter the real threat pornography poses
  23. Why adult children stay at home: looking beyond the myths of kidults, kippers and gestaters
  24. Why music is not lost
  25. The Australian manufacturing industry is not dying, it's evolving: CSIRO study
  26. More Australians are behind on their housing loans, how worried should we be?
  27. The ten things Australia needs to do to improve health
  28. China's plan to increase coal power by 20% is not the climate disaster it seems
  29. Sanitation projects will go down the toilet unless we ask people what they really want
  30. A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
  31. New model for school funding that won't break the budget
  32. Turnbull takes charge on water in bid to get ABCC deal
  33. Good riddance to innovation talk, in Abbott's view
  34. I used to be 'neoliberal', but I'm 'hard left' now
  35. Farewell Fidel: Castro dies aged 90
  36. Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway
  37. Banking inquiry findings – ask the wrong questions get the wrong answers
  38. Changes to Radio National are gutting a cultural treasure trove
  39. Why we require real names
  40. If Trump pulls America out of the TPP, the question is: what next?
  41. Research Check: can eating aged cheese help you age well?
  42. We could've seen thunderstorm asthma coming and there are ways to prepare
  43. Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
  44. A new phonics test is pointless – we shouldn't waste precious money buying it from England
  45. Reinventing density: bridging the live-work divide
  46. Please, Donald Trump, don't send climate science back to the pre-satellite era
  47. Smash it up, burn it down: should Joe Corré set fire to punk history this weekend?
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