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Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking

  • Written by: Nicole Rogers, Senior lecturer, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University

The phrase “climate emergency” became part of the political lexicon this year. Governments at all levels made declarations of a climate emergency, as did various organisations such as the Australian Medical Association. Even the Pope joined in.

But what has this meant in practical terms? Very little so far, given the continuing rise in...

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the idea behind Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving

  • Written by: Marcus Luigi Spiller, Associate Professor (Urban Planning) - honorary , University of Melbourne
the idea behind Labor's National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth savingThe Grattan Institute has condemned the National Rental Affordability Scheme as a $1 billion windfall to developers.www.shutterstock.com

Labor’s Rudd-era National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) has come under attack just when it might be needed.

The Abbott government stopped funding new deals under the scheme in 2014, but existing...

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Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal

  • Written by: Liam Lenten, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University

Tonight is the AFL’s annual night of nights, the red-carpet spectacular known as the Brownlow Medal vote count.

The Brownlow is awarded to the season’s “fairest and best” player. But is the way the medal gets decided really the fairest?

Research I’ve done with Aaron Smith of Loughborough University suggests footballers...

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Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn't smart enough yet

  • Written by: Gianluca Demartini, Associate professor, The University of Queensland
Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn't smart enough yetshutterstock

The information we encounter online everyday can be misleading, incomplete or fabricated.

Being exposed to “fake news” on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can influence our thoughts and decisions. We’ve already seen misinformation interfere with elections in the United States.

Facebook founder Mark...

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  1. City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on
  2. In a chatty world, losing your speech can be alienating. But there's help
  3. How Australians talk about tucker is a story that'll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant
  4. 'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time
  5. 10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools
  6. From crime fighters to crime writers
  7. young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life
  8. To go to China you have to be invited: Morrison
  9. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the family law inquiry
  10. why don't we have electric aircraft?
  11. how ancient virtues can guide our responses to the climate crisis
  12. A shot of hope in the face of climate despair
  13. It's safest to avoid e-cigarettes altogether – unless vaping is helping you quit smoking
  14. What is the charge of concealment of birth and why is it still happening in Australia?
  15. We want to learn about climate change from weather presenters, not politicians
  16. on the ending of a friendship
  17. Ignoring young people's climate change fears is a recipe for anxiety
  18. Another stolen generation looms unless Indigenous women fleeing violence can find safe housing
  19. Why do men have nipples?
  20. putting government money where policy needs to go
  21. We don't need another inquiry into family law – we need action
  22. NBN's new price plans are too little, too late
  23. The big budget question is why the surplus wasn't big
  24. It's Newstart pay rise day. You're in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts
  25. Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions
  26. Morrison government solid on industrial relations reform but bootlicks One Nation on family law
  27. How rising temperatures affect our health
  28. How the Biloela Tamil family deportation case highlights the failures of our refugee system
  29. Stop calling young people apathetic. For many, volunteering and activism go hand-in-hand
  30. investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer, who led the Panama Papers tax exposé
  31. inquiry underway to determine any wrongdoing by New Zealand troops in Afghanistan
  32. the evolution of Goth subculture in sub-tropical Brisbane
  33. There's a good reason we're moderating climate change deniers: uninformed comments undermine expertise
  34. it's almost all about housing
  35. For routine breast screening, you may not need a 3D mammogram
  36. two reef scientists share their climate grief
  37. Iran wants to create chaos in the Middle East. But conflict with the US remains a limited, if worrying, possibility
  38. NZ was first to grant women the vote in 1893, but then took 26 years to let them stand for parliament
  39. 3 keys to getting the policy mix right
  40. Cable ties probably won't stop magpie attacks – here are a few things to try instead
  41. Ever wondered what our curriculum teaches kids about climate change? The answer is 'not much'
  42. Why would anyone shiver their timbers? Here’s how pirate words arrr preserving old language
  43. family loss and sorry business that invokes laughter and tears
  44. Now the senators are taking on John Setka
  45. How do you know if your child has hay fever and how should you treat it?
  46. How big is the International Space Station?
  47. sporting statues can enshrine players and also capture pivotal cultural moments
  48. Why attending a climate strike can change minds (most importantly your own)
  49. why we won't be heading into an ice age any time soon
  50. our anxiety over China's influence is hurting Chinese-Australians

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