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Common Australian mosquitoes can't spread Zika

  • Written by: Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney

New research from Australian scientists shows common local mosquitoes aren’t able to spread Zika virus. This means Australia is unlikely to see a major outbreak of the disease. But a risk remains in northern Queensland.

Since the World Health Organisation’s declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in February,...

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The $4.8 trillion dollar question: will an 'investment approach' to welfare help the most disadvantaged?

  • Written by: Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
imageChristian Porter is championing a new approach to the way welfare is distributed in Australia.AAP/Lukas Coch

Social Services Minister Christian Porter on Tuesday released a report on the lifetime costs of the social security system for the Australian population, putting it at close to A$4.8 trillion.

The report was an initiative of the 2015-16...

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Could Clinton win Utah?

  • Written by: Bryan Cranston, PhD Candidate in Politics and History, Swinburne University of Technology
imageEPA/Jim Lo Scalzo

The last time Utah gave its Electoral College votes to a Democratic presidential candidate was 1964. This was also the last time the Republican Party nominated a nationalist candidate who was unpalatable to a majority of the population.

Like Donald Trump in 2016, the underlying premise of the 1964 campaign was that Barry Goldwater...

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'Not fit to be president': Hillary Clinton and our problem with older women

  • Written by: Michelle Smith, Research fellow in English Literature, Deakin University
imageThe #HillaryZombie hashtag pervades Twitter with criticism of her aged and tired appearance.skyhookmike/Twitter

Since Hillary Clinton launched her first US Presidential campaign in 2007, the vitriol directed towards her has been heavily grounded in sexism. Former President Barack Obama recently commented on the key challenge to Clinton’s...

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  4. Perspectives on migrants distorted by politics of prejudice
  5. From placeholder to pathfinder: innovative temporary site uses help us reimagine city spaces
  6. Turnbull should drive a regional refugee solution
  7. Invasive predators are eating the world's animals to extinction – and the worst is close to home
  8. Gold Coast light rail study helps put a figure on value capture's funding potential
  9. Recognition: Yes or No? The ABC asks the wrong questions of the wrong people
  10. To move forward on reconciliation, Australia must recognise it has a race relations problem
  11. Explainer: what are cataracts?
  12. Academics are unhappy – it's time to transform our troubled university system
  13. The OzAsia Festival is young and confident – here are the shows to watch
  14. Barnaby Joyce's challenge: applying the whip to the Nationals' whip
  15. FactCheck Q A: Is Australia one of the few countries worldwide to accept foreign political donations?
  16. Can an app help us find mindfulness in today's busy high-tech world?
  17. FactCheck Q A: would the Constitution need to be changed to ban political donations from unions?
  18. Health Check: how do I know if I drink too much?
  19. The Paralympics is changing the way people perceive disabilities
  20. To cut urban sprawl, we need quality infill housing displays to win over the public
  21. The silencing of the seas: how our oceans are going quiet
  22. Australia's educational policies both embody and entrench low expectations of students
  23. Full response from a spokesperson for Doug Cameron
  24. Private resettlement models offer a way for Australia to lift its refugee intake
  25. Australia has an internationalisation, not an innovation and R D problem
  26. A degree doesn't count for South Sudanese job seekers
  27. Today's leaders could learn from Menzies, who built modern Australia without acting in haste
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  29. Gaps in education data: there are many questions for which we don't have accurate answers
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  31. Disruption over Macquarie Island calls for some clever Antarctic thinking
  32. 'Grotesque spectacle'? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible
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  34. Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?
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  36. WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position
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  38. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  39. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  40. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
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  44. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
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