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Explainer: what is the Adler shotgun? And should restrictions on it be lifted?

  • Written by: Samara McPhedran, Senior Research Fellow, Violence Research and Prevention Program, Griffith University
imageLiberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm is among those pushing for restrictions on the Adler shotgun to be lifted.AAP/Mick Tsikas

The controversy whether Australia should allow the importation of the Adler A110 lever-action shotgun has certainly delivered some over-the-top political theatre. If you believe hyperventilating sectors of the media,...

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Babies born to overweight mothers more likely to get age-related diseases sooner

  • Written by: Jocelyn Wright, Editorial Intern, The Conversation
imageNew research shows a high BMI in mothers before pregnancy may impact the health of their child. Jessica Pankratz/Flickr, CC BY

Overweight women have a higher risk of delivering biologically older babies. This means they are more susceptible to age-related conditions such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes in later life, a new study shows.

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Arts training is an essential part of an innovative nation

  • Written by: Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), University of Melbourne
imageMore than 50 arts training programs across the nation, including circus, may no longer be supported by the federal government. Julian Smith/AAP

The past two years have not been happy ones for the arts sector in Australia. It all began in early 2014 with federal Ministers Brandis and Turnbull telling artists at the Sydney Biennale that they were...

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Can the private rental sector provide a secure, affordable housing solution?

  • Written by: Gavin Wood, Professor of Housing, RMIT University
imageIn the unregulated Australian rental housing market, rental leases are almost always short term.AAP/David Crosling

Despite a relatively healthy supply-side picture for the general housing market, the expected trickle down of housing opportunities to low-income households in Australia has failed to materialise.

The UK Department for Communities and...

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  2. What went wrong with Pokémon Go? Three lessons from its plummeting player numbers
  3. How we discovered the 'Higgs bison', hiding in plain sight in ancient cave art
  4. How women historians smashed the glass ceiling
  5. No it's not your imagination, it actually is colder on the weekend (if you live in a city)
  6. Death on the Great Barrier Reef: how dead coral went from economic resource to conservation symbol
  7. Is social media turning people into narcissists?
  8. How the dictionary is totes taking up the vernacular
  9. When truth is the first casualty of politics and journalism
  10. Unusual conditions: what is Rapunzel syndrome and why do some people eat hair?
  11. Turnbull walks right into Shorten's gun-sight
  12. Politics podcast: Stirling Griff and Skye Kakoschke-Moore on life in the Senate
  13. Paying a heavy price for loving the Neanderthals
  14. Crown employee arrests show danger of assumptions about China
  15. How a saviour of the ozone hole became a climate change villain – and how we're going to fix it
  16. Australians have little to fear from terrorism at home – here's why
  17. Teaching in higher education – there isn't enough evidence to tell us what works and why
  18. Bacchus Marsh baby deaths: Australia should learn from the UK and publish clinician performance data
  19. Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach
  20. Catching the waves: it's time for Australia to embrace ocean renewable energy
  21. Queensland's renewable target isn't 'aggressive', it's entirely achievable
  22. Executive's short-term outlooks the real killer of Australian innovation
  23. Why has Trump succeeded where others would have failed?
  24. How investigative journalists are using social media to uncover the truth
  25. Steel from old tyres and ceramics from nutshells – how industry can use our rubbish
  26. Man Up: inspired genius or half-baked celebrity expertise?
  27. If Google Assistant or Siri aren't smart enough for you, you can build your own AI
  28. Politics podcast: Tanya Plibersek on marriage equality and education funding
  29. Health Check: what determines whether we're night owls or morning larks?
  30. There is one way to put a stop to BHP's tax avoidance
  31. Family First's Bob Day quits Senate following business collapse
  32. 12 deadly Indigenous Australian social media users to follow
  33. Full response, Jane McAdam
  34. FactCheck Q A: what are the real numbers on refugees and other migrants coming to Australia?
  35. Slow start to new standards requirements for financial advisers
  36. How the housing boom is remaking Australia’s social class structure
  37. Why auctions are a better way to resolve business splits
  38. Breast self-examination: should you really 'pledge to check'?
  39. Social media and crime: the good, the bad and the ugly
  40. Brain stimulation is getting popular with gamers – is it time to regulate it?
  41. We need to rethink recruitment for men in primary schools
  42. Not really Hollywood: the media’s misleading framing of Islamic State videos
  43. More tropical cyclones likely for Australia this year: here’s why
  44. The risks in Australia's housing market shouldn't be downplayed
  45. Dystopian Donald: the horror and the hope in Trump's presidential campaign
  46. Government targets ALP's Kitching over union past
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