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As the world pushes for a ban on nuclear weapons, Australia votes to stay on the wrong side of history

  • Written by: Tilman Ruff, Associate Professor, International Education and Learning Unit, Nossal Institute for Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
imageMore than 70 years after the Hiroshima bombing, a majority of countries are pushing for a legally-binding treaty against nuclear weapons.Tim Wright/ICAN/Flickr, CC BY-NC

In early December, the nations of the world are poised to take an historic step forward on nuclear weapons. Yet most Australians still haven’t heard about what’s...

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Three good reasons to worry about Trump having the nuclear codes

  • Written by: Richard Slade, PhD Candidate (International Law), Monash University

Among the more alarming aspects of Donald Trump’s election is that he will soon have command of thousands of nuclear weapons. This poses a new and unknown threat to global peace and security, but it also provides an urgent incentive for all states to join the humanitarian initiative to ban nuclear weapons.

The humanitarian initiative is a...

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Give prisoners internet access for a safer and more humane community

  • Written by: Mirko Bagaric, Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology
imageDenying prisoners internet access seriously damages their prospects of rehabilitation.Lightspring from www.shutterstock.com

The reflexive and illogical ban on internet use by prisoners makes society less safe, damages families and is another appalling example of the gratuitous suffering we inflict on prisoners. It also highlights the primitive...

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  6. Explainer: how do our bodies balance themselves?
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  8. Humans are still evolving but in ways that might surprise you
  9. The government shouldn't use super to help low-income savers
  10. Raimond Gaita on Donald Trump's America: a cloud cuckoo land devoid of fact, evidence and argument
  11. Banks are hedging their bets on costly branch networks
  12. Forty years of measuring the world's cleanest air reveals human fingerprints on the atmosphere
  13. Change section 18C? Critics should do this crash course first
  14. Women aren't the problem in the film industry, men are
  15. Why virtual reality won't replace cadavers in medical school
  16. Nothing to see here? The abuse and neglect of children in care is a century-old story in Australia
  17. Hurt by sea: how storm surges and sea-level rise make coastal life risky
  18. If smoking doesn't kill, Mike Pence, neither does the plague
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  21. Why was Shakespeare's death such at non-event at the time?
  22. Australian business should hold fire in reacting to Trump election
  23. Scabies: a neglected parasitic disease we already know how to treat
  24. Xenophon tells voters he's still considering lifetime ban bill
  25. World set for hottest year on record: World Meteorological Organization
  26. Be prepared, always: the tsunami message from New Zealand's latest earthquake
  27. What happened in New Zealand's magnitude 7.5 earthquake
  28. Health Check: is cheese good for you?
  29. Trump’s victory spells trouble but also exciting, unimagined opportunities
  30. Policy uncertainty continues to hamper carbon emissions management
  31. To understand how storms batter Australia, we need a fresh deluge of data
  32. Plan to reduce Indigenous suicides finally acknowledges lack of evidence and need for hope
  33. Clinton's loss was not because of sexism, but because she wasn't radical enough
  34. Fossil fuel emissions have stalled: Global Carbon Budget 2016
  35. US deal is a good news story for refugees -- here's why it took so long
  36. Turnbull's asylum seeker ban violates Australia's human rights obligations
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  39. David Hockney interrogates space and time
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