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Race to the White House – President-elect Donald J Trump

  • Written by: Brendon O'Connor, Associate Professor in American Politics at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

This week on Race to the White House, Brendon O’Connor, Tom Switzer and Emma Lancaster digest the news that Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States of America.

They discuss Trump’s path to victory, what a Trump presidency might look like and who will be on Team Trump as the campaign transitions from mobilising the...

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Australia to ratify the Paris climate deal, under a large Trump-shaped shadow

  • Written by: Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

Australia’s government has announced that it is to ratify the Paris climate agreement, which was struck 11 months ago and entered into force last Friday.

The move comes despite the election of Donald Trump, who has called climate change a Chinese-inspired hoax. Trump has pledged to turn his back on the Paris treaty after he takes office in...

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Brandis scraps direction to Solicitor-General

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

Attorney-General George Brandis has pre-empted his opponents in the Senate by rescinding his controversial direction that all requests to the Solicitor-General for advice must go through him.

After a scathing report from the non-government majority on a Senate inquiry into the events surrounding Brandis issuing the direction, the Senate numbers...

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The third global bleaching event took its toll on Western Australia's super-corals

  • Written by: Verena Schoepf, Research Associate, University of Western Australia

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef has suffered through the worst bleaching event in its history, part of the world’s third mass bleaching event.

However, coral reefs from the other side of the continent have also experienced unprecedented bleaching and coral death. This is bad news because the unique coral reefs of Western...

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  1. There is no female president this time, and women are divided about it
  2. Creating a healthy company requires more than good pay incentives
  3. Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?
  4. Trump can kill trade deals but he can't kill globalisation
  5. How did we get the result of the US Election so wrong?
  6. This Remembrance Day, digital commemoration makes it impossible to forget
  7. No matter where you look, the Trump presidency is worrying news
  8. What's in store for Asia under President Trump
  9. How Donald Trump used the media and the industry of outrage to win the US Presidency
  10. Trade with China or security with the US? Australia will have to choose
  11. We've learned a lot about heatwaves, but we're still just warming up
  12. Keeping warming below 1.5℃ is possible - but we can't rely on removing carbon from the atmosphere
  13. Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts?
  14. Are we expecting too much of our junior doctors?
  15. Ignore the doubters: here's why Christopher Marlowe co-wrote Shakespeare's Henry VI
  16. Turnbull government will seek early engagement with Trump administration
  17. US election: how did the polls get it so wrong?
  18. Trump defies expectations and takes the White House on a wave of populism
  19. President Trump will change the United States and the world, but just how remains to be seen
  20. The markets tell us President Trump is worse than Brexit
  21. Trump the demagogue looks set to rule
  22. Vital Signs: it's a Trumptastrophe
  23. Why all the super buzz about the supermoon?
  24. Why hundreds of thousands of Muslims rallied against the Jakarta governor
  25. Self control, the harms of pot, and fat genes: how the 44-year-old Dunedin study keeps on giving
  26. Election day arrives and the stakes are high, not just for the US but the world
  27. Timeline: Americans, the economy and elections
  28. Business Briefing: what Australia can learn from a Polish economist
  29. Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care
  30. Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event
  31. The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought
  32. Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?
  33. Why we're more likely to date someone who has an ex
  34. Tougher action needed in the fight against scientific fraud
  35. Advertising is driving social media-fuelled fake news and it is here to stay
  36. Senate report calls for disallowance of Brandis's direction to Solicitor-General
  37. Inquiry opens way for changing Section 18C and the Human Rights Commission too
  38. Politics podcast: Julian Leeser on section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  39. Equity crowdfunding requires a rethink on company structure
  40. Do we care about old people behind bars, and should we?
  41. With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation
  42. The plebiscite is dead, but the quest for marriage equality lives on
  43. Fifty standout articles in The Conversation's 2016 Yearbook
  44. Australian law needs a refresher on the science of HIV transmission
  45. Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders
  46. Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade
  47. Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change
  48. Planning for a rainy day: there's still lots to learn about Australia's flood patterns
  49. Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia's most disadvantaged communities
  50. Despite business' best efforts whistleblowers still lack protection under Australian law: new research

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