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They're rich, unelected and shaping public policy

  • Written by The Conversation
imageDo the unelected super-rich exercise a strong influence on public policy?AAP/Mick Tsikas

In the United States, businessman-turned-presidential-hopeful Donald Trump has been leading the pack for Republican pre-selection. In Australia, we have seen billionaire miner Andrew Forrest take the front seat in policy development when the prime minister,...

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What to believe in the new world of open access publishing

  • Written by The Conversation
imageEven in science the adage rings true: don't believe everything you read.from www.shutterstock.com.au

It’s never been easy for readers to know what to believe in academic research. The entire history of science publishing has been riddled with controversy and debate from its very beginning when Hobbes and Boyle, scientists at the Royal Society...

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How to make sense of big, scary climate costs

  • Written by The Conversation
imageClimate costs can seem scary, but it's all in how you look at them. Bills image from www.shutterstock.com

The Daily Telegraph yesterday published a set of Big Scary Numbers around ambitious action on climate change, leading to lower economic growth, lower wage growth and the winding down of the coal industry.

In response the federal environment...

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  1. Odds keep rising for a big El Niño in 2015
  2. Your questions answered on donor conception and IVF
  3. The politics of fear have trumped the politics of courage – more's the pity
  4. Don't panic, but the universe is slowly dying
  5. Why the silence of moderate conservatives is dangerous for race relations
  6. How the bomb has kept the peace between India and Pakistan
  7. Scientists at work: cracking sea lions' high-thrust, low-wake swimming technique
  8. Why organised crime should not be used to shape anti-doping policy
  9. Why porn stars should be forced to wear condoms
  10. Why we'll all learn to love genetically modified Salmonella in the end
  11. Where will the next generation of Nobel Prize winners come from?
  12. What tiki-taka football can teach us about boosting innovation
  13. How science lost one of its greatest minds in the trenches of Gallipoli
  14. Monoclonal antibodies: the invisible allies that changed the face of medicine
  15. Abbott facing crunch over same-sex marriage bill
  16. Why do we pay so much attention to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
  17. Japan's way of remembering World War II still infuriates its neighbours
  18. How Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter taught us not to look away
  19. There's no code of ethics to govern digital forensics – and we need one
  20. What if it happened again? What we need to do to prepare for a nuclear event
  21. How can we support kids in learning more than one language?
  22. Foxtel's bundle of pain could come sooner than it thinks
  23. Explainer: how European states shift responsibility for asylum claims
  24. French policies have caused migrants to seek a way through the Channel tunnel
  25. Can genetics find a 'cure' for autism?
  26. How international criminal justice was born in the shadow of the atomic bomb
  27. Sex in Class: Liekens is right to teach teenagers about sexual pleasure
  28. Health Check: how do you catch – and get rid of – head lice?
  29. Celebrity activists get it wrong on Amnesty International's sex work policy
  30. Double shot with a swirl: latte art influences how much we pay for coffee
  31. Holding the Man, and bringing HIV/AIDS in Australia to a mainstream audience
  32. Out of Israel: Ausraelis re-invent the diasporic identity
  33. New Speaker Tony Smith promises a less partisan approach
  34. Full responses from Senator Scott Ludlam and Senator George Brandis
  35. FactCheck: will the Arts Minister need to publicly disclose who he funds?
  36. What if Google bought Twitter?
  37. The off-topic Conversation #55
  38. The Conversation to fact check panellists on Q A
  39. Killing Hitler: when is assassination justified?
  40. Weapons of maths destruction: are calculators killing our ability to work it out in our head?
  41. Recycling rules: carnival of coal is a blast from the PR past
  42. We need to move beyond the medical model to address Indigenous suicide
  43. Public transport is always greener on the other side
  44. Antarctica may hold the key to regulating mining in space
  45. Trump, Misogyny and Menstrual Misunderstandings
  46. Holding our devices hostage. Can we stay safe against the threat of ransomware?
  47. Labor improves lead in Newspoll, as cabinet looks at carbon targets
  48. Unpacking the difference between feminist and women's movements in Africa
  49. Why promoting green infrastructure in Africa may be bad for development
  50. Barbaric and futile: world must do away with state-sponsored killing
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