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Arctic birds face disappearing breeding grounds as climate warms

  • Written by: Hannah Wauchope, Research assistant, The University of Queensland
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Next month, the cruise ship Crystal Serenity will embark on a controversial voyage, becoming the first cruise liner ever to sail Canada’s Northwest Passage – a formerly icebound route that only became navigable in 2007. It’s a dramatic symbol of the change that is currently taking place in the Arctic, which is warming more...

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Seven ways Australia can boost its connection with Indian universities

  • Written by: Trent Brown, Research Assistant, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne
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India has a high and growing demand for tertiary education that can’t currently be met by Indian institutions alone.

The government’s goal to fill 40 million university places by 2020 means India will need to recruit an extra 14...

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Australia expands Iraq role to training law enforcement authorities

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

Australia has agreed to expand its training work in Iraq to include not just the army but also law enforcement authorities.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the change in role following a request from the United States and Iraq for extra help, and after his talks on Tuesday with visiting US Vice-President Joe Biden. At their joint news...

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Liberals deride quotas for women MPs but how are they going to make targets work?

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

Before the election Malcolm Turnbull had no trouble calling himself a feminist but now his party has had its woman problem highlighted by the result.

There will only be 13 women among the 60 (assuming the party loses Herbert) Liberals in the House of Representatives. That’s 21.7%. In the last House there were 17 women among 75 Liberals...

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  4. Is the new Senate vote capture system as risky as electronic voting?
  5. Lighting spotfires under a palace of colonial power
  6. City calls on jury of its citizens to deliberate on Melbourne's future
  7. Blockchains could help restore trust in the food we choose to eat
  8. Nightmares and night terrors in kids: when do they stop being normal?
  9. Mums and dads of very preterm babies more likely to be depressed
  10. Can religious vilification laws protect religious freedoms?
  11. We need to talk about the bad science being funded
  12. A realistic strategy for federal budget repair
  13. 'If you don't have a beer you're not a man' – rural workplaces made more dangerous by drugs and alcohol
  14. Whimsy, intimacy and a few bum notes in Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host
  15. It’s not easy being green, especially when affordable help is so hard to find
  16. Three ways to reform research that won’t break the budget
  17. Brendan Nelson declares Kevin Rudd is 'tailor made' for United Nations secretary-general job
  18. All you need for quantum computing at room temperature is some mothballs
  19. Turnbull's reshuffle: Pyne, Nationals winners; conservatives get little
  20. The off-topic Conversation #102
  21. Philip Morris speaks at and promotes an obscure lung disease conference
  22. Health Check: why do we get dry skin in winter?
  23. High-speed rail? At $200 billion we'd better get it right
  24. FactCheck Q A: how unusual is compulsory voting, and do 90% of New Zealanders vote without it?
  25. Memo Steve Price: how 'hysteria' has been used to degrade and control women
  26. Overconfidence is responsible for a lot of mistakes, here's how to avoid it
  27. Pokémon Go puts pressure on when technology meets the law
  28. Internet of Things data will help us predict the future
  29. A snapshot of children's health in Australia
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  31. GPs unlikely to pick up certain cancers right away because it's not the most likely diagnosis
  32. What's next for asylum seekers under a re-elected Turnbull government?
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  34. A labour dump is unlikely under the China Australia free trade agreement
  35. Blockchain technology could be a game changer for developing communities
  36. How the Indian diaspora is shaping the battle for yoga's soul
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  38. New Evidence for BPA and Obesity? Not so fast!
  39. Peak Pokémon: Despite its success, Pokémon Go's decline is already under way
  40. Capitalism and Democracy [part one]
  41. Nice attack brings a difficult question into sharp focus: why France?
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  43. You scratch my back... the beneficial (and not so beneficial) relationships between organisms
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  45. Nice attack: how vulnerable are we to 'low-tech terror'?
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