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The silencing of the seas: how our oceans are going quiet

  • Written by: Ivan Nagelkerken, Associate Professor, Marine Biology, University of Adelaide
imageThe second-noisiest animal in the ocean, the snapping shrimp. Dr Tullio Rossi, CC BY-SA

Despite appearances, the oceans are far from silent places. If you dunk your head underwater you’ll hear a cacophony of sounds from wildlife great and small, crashing waves, and even rain. And it’s louder still for creatures attuned to these sounds.

Ho...

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Australia's educational policies both embody and entrench low expectations of students

  • Written by: Misty Adoniou, Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
imageNewly arrived English language learners are often not taught by qualified specialist teachers.Paul Miller/AAP

It was George W Bush who first described low educational expectations as a form of “soft” bigotry. But it is a mantra that has held a lot of appeal for Australian politicians and educational bureaucrats.

Sometimes the finger is...

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Full response from a spokesperson for Doug Cameron

  • Written by: Sunanda Creagh, Editor, The Conversation

When asked for sources in relation to this FactCheck on political donations, a spokesperson for Doug Cameron said:

Senator Cameron was speaking about proposals to ban all donations not made by persons on the electoral roll. The case he referred to was Unions NSW and Others v State of New South Wales(2013) 252 CLR 530; [2013] HCA 58 (‘Unions...

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Private resettlement models offer a way for Australia to lift its refugee intake

  • Written by: Susan Kneebone, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
imageCan and should Australia be doing more to resettle refugees?AAP/Orhan Tsolak

No-one disputes the urgent need for co-operative solutions to the global crisis of displaced people, estimated at 65 million people. But the chances of co-operation in the resettlement of recognised refugees seem slim.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has...

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  3. Today's leaders could learn from Menzies, who built modern Australia without acting in haste
  4. Child sex abuse doesn't create paedophiles
  5. Gaps in education data: there are many questions for which we don't have accurate answers
  6. The great movie scenes: Antonioni's The Passenger
  7. Disruption over Macquarie Island calls for some clever Antarctic thinking
  8. 'Grotesque spectacle'? Rio has a long way to go to become more accessible
  9. Hard to see compromise on same-sex marriage plebiscite
  10. Here she comes again – how do we handle Pauline Hanson?
  11. Humans can make rockfalls from earthquakes more dangerous
  12. WA ReachTEL: Liberals stage big recovery to election winning position
  13. Community wellbeing best measured from the ground up: a Yawuru example
  14. Climate Policy’s House of Cards
  15. The strange case of Stephen Conroy's invisible resignation
  16. Politics podcast: Peter Jennings on Turnbull's trip to the US
  17. Why we run Author Q As
  18. Paralympian role models: media hype, political rhetoric or the real deal?
  19. Attacks on renewable energy policy are older than the climate issue itself
  20. Lionel Shriver and the responsibilities of fiction writers
  21. The world's carbon stores are going up in smoke with vanishing wilderness
  22. Callinan review largely backs Sydney lockout laws, but alcohol's role in family violence is a blind spot
  23. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government's week of success
  24. Technology matters in the Paralympics, but the athlete matters more
  25. Unusual conditions: what are gigantism and acromegaly?
  26. Why are there so many species of bugs, but so few species of human?
  27. Rules of the Game: a disparate mix of ping-pong balls, paper and Pharrell Williams
  28. How Airbnb is reshaping our cities
  29. iPhone hack attack shows why we need to rein in the trade in spyware
  30. Crossroads program: should we teach children that gender identity is fluid? Here's what the research says
  31. Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims? The numbers tell a different story
  32. Insults, offence and words that wound: why language needs to be handled with care
  33. When globalisation meets entrepreneurship it can be a force for good
  34. Are we expelling too many children from Australian schools?
  35. Friday essay: science fiction's women problem
  36. Fashion police: new Queensland laws continue Australia's misguided war on bikies
  37. Explainer: how to prepare for a tsunami
  38. Bulging ear drums and hearing loss: Aboriginal kids have the highest otitis media rates in the world
  39. Drilling in the Bight: has BP learnt the right lessons from its Gulf of Mexico blowout?
  40. Kangaroo Island's choice: a new cable to the mainland, or renewable power
  41. Vital Signs: flat employment remains worrying for Australia
  42. What comes after the Paralympics? How sport and study can enhance each other
  43. Grattan on Friday: The Turnbull government begins to wash its face
  44. Winners and losers from the government's compromise on superannuation
  45. Valerie Amos: 'academic freedom and freedom of speech must be protected and respected'
  46. State aid lessons for Australia from the Apple EU tax case
  47. Why Australians should say 'Yes' to the same-sex marriage plebiscite
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