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Can foreign policy be freed from populist politicking?

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imageWhile Julie Bishop stays on as foreign minister, domestic political calculations might be less of a factor in policy if the government can put dire opinion polls behind it.AAP/Lukas Coch

How Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to prime minister might alter Australia’s foreign policy agenda has received relatively little attention in the...

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Technology will play a starring role in Australia's future story

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imageBroadband is one of the technologies that will feature heavily in Australia's future.

The new Turnbull government, which admirably seems to take a genuine interest in science and technology, has arrived just in time: Australia can no longer afford to not fully engage with new technologies. But which ones should it embrace? What will be their impact...

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The Horse: reframing the history of human progress

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imageLucy Kemp-Welch, Horses bathing in the sea, 1900. Oil on canvas. Estate of Lucy Kemp-Welch. National Gallery of Victoria, Author provided

Throughout history, the horse has occupied a powerful place in the emotional, spiritual and daily lives of human beings.

It is said that one day in 1889 when the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed...

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No place like home when playing in the Rugby World Cup

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imageKarne Hesketh, a product of New Zealand rugby, scores the winning try for Japan against South Africa.Reuters/Eddie Keogh

Japan’s “greatest upset ever in World Cup rugby” against South Africa was a signal moment for minnow nations, but highlighted the fluid nature of world rugby representative eligibility rules.

Japan’s...

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  2. What will changes to the national curriculum mean for schools? Experts respond
  3. Can the 'real Malcolm' survive being PM?
  4. More is less? Health in the Sustainable Development Goals
  5. Turnbull must break with past attempts to keep the future at bay
  6. Pyne leaves education having failed to sell a vision for the past
  7. Publish or perish culture encourages scientists to cut corners
  8. How corporates co-opted the art of mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable
  9. Redefining the (able) body: disabled performers make their presence felt at the Fringe
  10. Sustained economic growth: United Nations mistake the poison for the cure
  11. High-tech fertilisers and innovation have to come to the Great Barrier Reef's rescue
  12. Will Senate voting reform end up in the too hard basket?
  13. Politics podcast: Kim Carr on Labor's new higher education policy
  14. COP 21 : pourquoi Paris ne sera pas un autre Copenhague
  15. Pope works to reconcile Catholic teaching, population pressures and sustainable development
  16. Explainer: how does the immune system learn?
  17. Using family trusts to minimise tax is on the nose: so why are policy makers silent?
  18. The late Gordon Darling and the gentle art of philanthropy
  19. The war on online advertising is intensifying, and the ads are losing
  20. The wash-up from the Canning byelection
  21. Australia's VET system needs fundamental change – here's how it can be fixed
  22. All eyes on the Aussie dollar as Australia stalks recession
  23. What is this thing called reform?
  24. Senate Inquiry into arts funding: South Australia takes a bow
  25. Aged-care funding creates dependency and lowers well-being of residents
  26. Explainer: the world's new sustainable development goals
  27. Want your kids to learn another language? Teach them code
  28. Turnbull takes Coalition into lead and trounces Shorten in Newspoll
  29. Senate crossbencher's advice to new PM: come and walk the red carpet, Malcolm
  30. Labor's higher ed policy: focus on retaining students and increasing per-student funding
  31. Was it but a dream? Post Brandis, we need a reordering of national arts priorities
  32. Health Check: 'food comas', or why eating sometimes makes you sleepy
  33. When 'hand crafted' is really just crafty marketing
  34. Two visions of the 'new economy' collide where people and technology intersect
  35. Baobab trees trace the African diaspora across the Indian Ocean
  36. Building prisons is not making us safe – what can government do?
  37. From 'debt and deficit' to 'building prosperity': what's needed to shift the economic narrative
  38. The off-topic Conversation #61
  39. Selling sex in music videos and Video Music Awards
  40. Playing with fire: the economics and network of fire and haze
  41. Damned Whores and God’s Police is still relevant to Australia 40 years on – more's the pity
  42. Banks are training us to embrace their competitors
  43. Grade repetition: there are better ways to move kids forward than by holding them back
  44. Beware the multipack: it may hinder rather than help your diet
  45. Creative self-destruction: the climate crisis and the myth of 'green' capitalism
  46. Mauna a Wakea: Hawai'i's sacred mountain and the contentious Thirty Meter Telescope
  47. Turnbull has moved beyond the Howard era in some respects, and returned to it in others
  48. Godzilla - a tale of the times
  49. Turnbull's clean sweep in reshuffle, with Hockey likely for Washington
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