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Australia needs better policy to end the alarming increase in land clearing

  • Written by: Megan C Evans, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Policy, The University of Queensland

Land-clearing laws are being fiercely debated in both Queensland and New South Wales. These two states are responsible for the majority of cleared land in Australia’s recent history.

The latest assessment from Queensland shows that 296,000 hectares of vegetation was cleared in 2014-15. More than a third of this is remnant vegetation that has...

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Here’s looking at: 'Boy with a straw hat ...' by Diane Arbus

  • Written by: Ted Snell, Professor, Chief Cultural Officer, Cultural Precinct, University of Western Australia
image'Everything is sharply defined; we can even count his freckles.' Detail of Diane Arbus, Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N.Y.C., 1967. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia

What did Diane Arbus say to this young boy with his ill-fitted Boater hat and barn door ears before she lifted her twin-lens Rolleiflex,...

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Explainer: the mysterious missing magnetic monopole

  • Written by: T'Mir Danger Julius, Data Scientist, Swinburne University of Technology
imageAll the magnets we've ever seen have a north and a south, but there might be some out there that have only one end.Shutterstock

You’ve probably heard of the Higgs boson. This elusive particle was predicted to exist long ago and helped explain why the universe works the way it does, but it took decades for us to detect.

Well, there’s...

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Costello questions what the Turnbull government can achieve

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

Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello has raised questions about how much the Turnbull government can achieve given its political situation, and warned of the risk of a defection.

Costello said he had no doubt the government, which has a majority of just one seat, could survive last through the term. But “what will it be able to do? Will it...

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  5. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
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  8. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
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  13. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
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