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Government agrees to change its Senate voting reforms as Shorten replaces Gary Gray

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

The government is making a major change to its legislation to reform the Senate voting system after a recommendation from a brief parliamentary inquiry.

Optional preferential voting will be brought in for below-the-line voting, to match the original plan in the bill for it to apply above the line.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Special Minister...

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Lady Gaga vs Lorde: why both tributes captured the essence of David Bowie

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On January 10, 2016, I received a text message from a friend who is a devoted David Bowie fan: “There was an Internet death hoax about Bowie. I’m still shaking,” she exclaimed. Hesitantly, she decided,

There’s no official news as yet, so I think it’s safe to assume that it is fake.

Her skepticism was warranted, given...

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Hidden housemates: we live with a zoo of harmless mini-beasts

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imageFungus gnats are one the many arthropods that find their way into our homes. Gnat image from www.shutterstock.com

Do you take pride in a clean house? They may not be obvious, but a recent US survey has shown that each of our homes harbours a fauna of perhaps hundreds of species of insect and other terrestrial arthropods such as mites, millipedes...

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  7. How the political crises of the modern Muslim world created the climate for Islamic State
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  9. Cuts to WaterNSW's science staff will put Sydney's water quality at risk
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  16. Fifield wants media ownership changes passed before the election
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  22. Rethinking 'small' business could drive a real ideas boom
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