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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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  2. Health Check: do cough medicines work?
  3. Free speech: would removing Section 18C really give us the right to be bigots?
  4. I won't be giving my name to census: Xenophon
  5. Explainer: what is the census, and why does it matter?
  6. FactCheck: do welfare recipients owe the Australian government about $3.5 billion?
  7. Can you 'teach' workers to be more emotionally resilient?
  8. India's GST promises growth, reform and opportunities
  9. Size is largely in the mind: how your body image can change in two minutes
  10. The new Senate looms as a serious problem for a damaged Malcolm Turnbull
  11. Death by dingo: outsourcing pest control raises uncomfortable questions
  12. Without action, Asia-Pacific ecosystems could lose a third of their value by 2050
  13. Can we learn from Thucydides' writings on the Trump of ancient Athens?
  14. What if intelligent machines could learn from each other?
  15. Why technology makes us dishonest: ways to reduce cheating at self-service checkouts
  16. Further Senate results and analysis
  17. The 'no' campaign on marriage equality owes us better arguments
  18. Capitalism and Democracy [part 3]
  19. Whither anarchy: the fantasy of natural law
  20. Whither anarchy: ownness as a form of freedom
  21. Turnbull inquiry-lite bank plan falls short
  22. Latest PBO costings won't hold any parties to account
  23. Here's how you beat 'indestructible' head lice
  24. One Nation's Malcolm Roberts is in denial about the facts of climate change
  25. Whither anarchy: perspectives on anarchism and liberty
  26. Whither anarchy: freedom as non-domination
  27. Are university flagship courses actually workable? And will they be a disaster for equity?
  28. The white man's burden: Bill Leak and telling 'the truth' about Aboriginal lives
  29. Fast food companies use social networking sites to target children
  30. So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice?
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  32. The man who brought science and a touch of humanity to Australia's Olympic swimming hopes
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  34. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the new Senate
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  38. One of Marlowe's finest plays roars into the 21st century
  39. Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
  40. Explainer: who's who on the new Senate crossbench?
  41. Survival of the fittest: the changing shapes and sizes of Olympic athletes
  42. In no mood for games: the pale Olympic flame of Rio 2016
  43. Pay doctors to keep patients healthy rather than just for treating illness
  44. Friday essay: why a building and its rooms should have a human character
  45. Reimagining NSW: how a happy, healthy regional and rural citizenry helps us all
  46. How we used a particle accelerator to find the hidden face in Degas's Portrait of a woman
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