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Queensland Liberal Ross Vasta joins race for Speaker

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imageQueensland MP Ross Vasta flanks Prime Minister Tony Abbott, with Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane.Dan Peled/AAP

Queensland Liberal MP Ross Vasta has thrown his hat in the ring for the speakership.

Vasta joins a field that includes South Australian Andrew Southcott, Victorians Tony Smith and Russell Broadbent, and Philip Ruddock from NSW. Smith and...

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Spot the difference: Labor vs the Coalition on asylum seekers

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imageLabor, like the Coalition, would retain the offshore processing framework and the option of turning back asylum-seeker boats. AAP/Eoin Blackwell

At the ALP national conference in July, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten unveiled a suite of measures on asylum seeker policy. This included some that addressed the protection needs of asylum seekers and...

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'Zero-day' stockpiling puts us all at risk

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imageOnce a software maker learns about a "zero-day" vulnerability, there's usually no time left to fix it. Midnight via www.shutterstock.com

“Zero-days” are serious vulnerabilities in software that are unknown to the software maker or user. They are so named because developers find out about the security vulnerability the day that it is...

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Explainer: why volcanoes erupt

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imagePiton de la Fournaise or "Peak of the Furnace" on Reunion Island is one of the world's most active volcanoes, shown erupting in August 2015.AAP/NewZulu/Vincent Dunogué

Some people believe volcanic eruptions are caused by fate. Others believe a volcanic eruption is a sign that a mountain is upset because residents living nearby have sinned.

But...

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  5. Why legal challenges to the EPA Clean Power Plan will end up at the Supreme Court
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  7. What psychology says about how you should respond to racist behaviour
  8. New Speaker must lead the way in restoring parliamentary ethics and trust
  9. My fellow Aus-tra-aliens: Aleks Danko at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art – review
  10. Why we should all care about cyber crime: the risk to you and me
  11. Australia lags behind the evidence on special schools
  12. Polling is more complex than Fox News boss Roger Ailes wants you to know
  13. Four things that you should know about the EPA Clean Power Plan
  14. South Sudan's spiritual father would weep at the state of his country
  15. Obama builds legacy on climate change with EPA Clean Power Plan
  16. Now advertising billboards can read your emotions ... and that's just the start
  17. The future of rail travel, and why it doesn’t look like Hyperloop
  18. Explainer: the difference between asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants
  19. Q A: what is the Libor scandal and why does it matter?
  20. New Israel law risks making force-feeding of hunger strikers respectable worldwide
  21. Government accelerates warship building in bid to prop up South Australian economy
  22. Louis le Prince shot the first film – but did he invent movies?
  23. A year after massacre by Islamic State, Iraq's Yazidis are clinging on
  24. Can corporate America solve growing problem of youth unemployment?
  25. Pushing students to take Advanced Placement courses does not help anyone
  26. Why Medicare should reimburse doctors for end-of-life care conversations
  27. Big Data analyses depend on starting with clean data points
  28. The autonomous killing systems of the future are already here, they're just not necessarily weapons – yet
  29. What happened to MH370? Prediction markets might give us the answer
  30. Why Corbyn is winning – and how Labour’s moderates can stop him
  31. We're only just starting to understand the side-effects of driverless cars
  32. Running hot and cold: sardines and anchovies in the Pacific
  33. Shark safety tips: sorting out fact from fiction
  34. Why white men still dominate the top echelons of South Africa's private sector
  35. Universities need to adapt to become part of shaping a better future
  36. Why communism appears to be gaining favour in South Africa
  37. Australia-Indonesia relationship is back to 'normal', meaning fragile as ever
  38. Change penalty rates, reform work agreements, urges Productivity Commission: experts respond
  39. Hospital patients are more likely to die at weekends but seven-day rosters are no panacea
  40. Obama takes 'biggest step' on US climate policy: experts react
  41. Sundays are similar to Saturdays for workers: Productivity Commission
  42. Windows 10 is not really free: you are paying for it with your privacy
  43. When Racism Masquerades as “Equality”: The Adam Goodes Furore
  44. Food democracy: why eating is unavoidably political
  45. How Australian dystopian young adult fiction differs from its US counterparts
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  48. The green and the gold: can we soften the environmental impact of the Olympics?
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