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Hidden stars, baby planets and blowup spaceships

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imageExcept for a few blue foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way’s nuclear star cluster, the most massive and densest star cluster in our galaxy.NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA, Acknowledgment: T. Do, A.Ghez (UCLA), V. Bajaj (STScI)

Each fortnight I get the amazing opportunity to speak about my top stories in space...

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Interactive: profiles of the cabinet and shadow cabinet

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In this election year, there will be much focus on the performance of the prime minister and opposition leader respectively, as Australian election campaigns have tended to become increasingly presidential. This deflects attention from the important role that members of the cabinet and shadow cabinet play in the running of the...

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There's a good reason we're so interested in the US election: it matters

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imageDonald Trump has been highly critical of trade liberalisation, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.Reuters/Jim Young

Kim Beazley was Australian ambassador to the United States from 2010 until January 2016, and a former leader of the federal Labor Party. He is now a senior fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. This is the first of an occasional...

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  3. How to reform primary health care to close the gap
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  8. The halving sounds like a horror story and may well turn out to be one for Bitcoin
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  31. Turnbull’s plan to fix the federation is bold – but can he deliver?
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