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Australia failing to safeguard cultural connections for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care

  • Written by: Alwin Chong, Associate Research Professor, University of South Australia

Child protection and out-of-home care have been the subject of multiple inquiries and reviews, and 2016 has been no exception. This year there have been fourseparateroyalcommissions into child protection and the related factors of family violence, child sexual abuse, juvenile detention and the systemic failures in these areas.

The Victorian...

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Radical overhaul needed to halt Earth’s sixth great extinction event

  • Written by: Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
imageThe great grey owl is imperiled by intensive logging of northern-hemisphere forests. Copyright Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock.

Life has existed on Earth for roughly 3.7 billion years. During that time we know of five mass extinction events — dramatic episodes when many, if not most, life forms vanished in a geological heartbeat. The most recent...

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The lessons we need to learn to deal with the 'creeping disaster' of drought

  • Written by: Anthony Kiem, Associate Professor – Hydroclimatology, University of Newcastle
imageThe Millennium drought had a huge impact on the Murray-Darling river system.suburbanbloke/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

The journal Climatic Change has published a special edition of review papers discussing major natural hazards in Australia. This article is one of a series looking at those threats in detail.


Droughts are a natural feature of...

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Scientists ponder the evolutionary urge to create - but where are the women?

  • Written by: Svenja J. Kratz, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, University of Tasmania
imageStatic No. 12 (seek stillness in movement), 2009–10©Daniel Crooks. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery

How does art help us survive?

This is a question that clearly fascinates MONA founder David Walsh. It is at the heart of the Hobart gallery’s new exhibition, On the Origin of Art.

Refuting a purely cultural basis for...

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  9. With its corruption crackdown, China is also stamping out innovation
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  13. Kids who watch porn won't necessarily turn into sex offenders
  14. Explainer: why an Australian trade deal with the UK could take a decade
  15. Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change
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  17. Natural disasters are affecting some of Australia's most disadvantaged communities
  18. Despite business' best efforts whistleblowers still lack protection under Australian law: new research
  19. What’s gender solidarity got to do with it? Woman shaming and Hillary Clinton
  20. Can private security companies improve responses to victims of family violence?
  21. Should family members of those with mental illness have access to their health information?
  22. Expansion is no longer the answer to improving the Australian education system
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  24. Under President Trump the misinformed citizen will reign supreme
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  26. How Jakarta's first Chinese Indonesian governor became an easy target for radical Islamic groups
  27. Hanson backs sending her senator to the High Court
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