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TV's top ten ear worms, from a television tragic

  • Written by: Derham Groves, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
imageBa-da-da-dum, dum-dum...the jingles, theme songs and commercials that stick in your head. ABC TV

In 1984, I lived in the USA. Until I found a place of my own, I bunked with an American friend who was about the same age as me. Our main topic of conversation was 1960s television.

Even though he had grown up in Minneapolis and I had grown up in...

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Australia's AAA rating affirmed by Moody's

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

Moody’s has reaffirmed Australia’s AAA credit rating, as Malcolm Turnbull seeks to put pressure on Labor and crossbenchers to pass measures to help repair the budget.

Moody’s Investor Services said in a statement on Wednesday that reasons for maintaining the status quo were the expectation that Australia’s...

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Neonicotinoids linked to wild bee and butterfly declines in Europe and US

  • Written by: Manu Saunders, Post-doctoral Research Fellow (Ecology), Charles Sturt University
imageHoneybees aren't the only wildlife affected by pesticides – wild bees and butterflies also feel the effect.Wild bee image from www.shutterstock.com

Two separate studies from the United States and England, both published today, show evidence that populations of butterflies and wild bees have declined in association with increased...

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The Nauru files: why don't we believe victims of sexual abuse?

  • Written by: Bianca Fileborn, Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University

The release of the “Nauru files” last week revealed more than 2,000 incidents of sexual assault, child abuse and self-harm of asylum seekers, and documented the appalling living conditions for those held in offshore detention on Nauru.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton dismissed many of the files, including those documenting sexual...

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