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Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump's ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump's ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flowsJoe Biden remains the favourite to win the Democratic nomination. AAP/EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo

After the first Democratic presidential debate on June 25-26, Joe Biden fell in Democratic national presidential polls, and Kamala Harris surged. In the lead-up to the July 30-31 debate, Biden recovered lost support while Harris lost some of her gains....


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what is China's United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?

  • Written by: Gerry Groot, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Adelaide
what is China's United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?According to the ABC, newly elected MP Gladys Liu is tied to an organisation that's part of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front, which exerts influence among the Chinese diaspora.Mick Tsikas/AAP

As China grows more powerful and influential, our New Superpower series looks at what this means for the world – how China maintains its...

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How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it

  • Written by: Jeff Seadon, Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology

Recycling in Australia used to be fairly simple. Our older readers may remember bottle drives, paper and cardboard collections, and the trip to the scrap metal merchant to sell metals.

This is called, in recycling parlance, sorting the “streams”. It creates very clean recycling that requires little sorting at a plant.

But recycling got...

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  1. Eleanor Anne Ormerod, the self taught agricultural entomologist who tasted a live newt
  2. why plants don't simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air
  3. Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison's climate policy
  4. Morrison needs to take control of China policy
  5. Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby
  6. Hong Kong fears losing its rule of law; the rest of the world should worry too
  7. how genes act differently in male and female brains
  8. young Indigenous Australians want to be heard – but will we listen?
  9. Regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon is hard given their bewildering complexity
  10. on the 'creeping crisis' in the public service
  11. Memory and attention difficulties are often part of a normal life
  12. Why an Australian charter of rights is a matter of national urgency
  13. where did rats first come from?
  14. Snow at the footy? Just how unusual was last weekend’s weather?
  15. Contemporary and medieval women's voices collide in My Dearworthy Darling
  16. coal is on the road to becoming completely uninsurable
  17. Queenslanders are among our heaviest drinkers on nights out, and changing that culture is a challenge
  18. How Indigenous fashion designers are taking control and challenging the notion of the heroic, lone genius
  19. Red tape in aged care shouldn't force staff to prioritise ticking boxes over residents' outcomes
  20. why don't people fall out of bed when they are sleeping?
  21. To restore trust in government, we need to reinvent how the public service works
  22. it’s time whistleblowers had better protection
  23. Australia has too few home-grown experts on the Chinese Communist Party. That's a problem
  24. helping former Colombian guerrilla fighters to become citizen scientists
  25. Here's why there should be no gestational limits for abortion
  26. you're probably worse at it than you realise
  27. Australia urgently needs real sustainable agriculture policy
  28. Dutton directive gives journalists more breathing space, but not whistleblowers
  29. If you have a low ATAR, you could earn more doing a VET course than a uni degree – if you're a man
  30. Here's how tech giants profit from invading our privacy, and how we can start taking it back
  31. Chinese propaganda goes tech-savvy to reach a new generation
  32. Why women are more likely to have dodgy hip implants or other medical devices
  33. Environmental destruction is a war crime, but it's almost impossible to fall foul of the laws
  34. Lessons from Queensland on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy
  35. It's not in the 'national interest' for the backbench to shut up about China
  36. Government tells police to lay off journalists in investigating leaks
  37. Governor Lowe points to even lower rates
  38. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the High Court's free speech ruling
  39. The meat-eating bladderwort traps aquatic animals at lightning speed
  40. what does this mean, and what are the challenges?
  41. Why is the Australian energy regulator suing wind farms – and why now?
  42. What is sepsis and how can it be treated?
  43. Millions of Muslims prepare to perform the hajj amid calls for a boycott
  44. Grandmother's case raises question whether NZ should adopt defence of 'diminished responsibility'
  45. Ooshies – a cautionary toy story about cashing in on childhood innocence
  46. Vegan food's sustainability claims need to give the full picture
  47. Are Trump's tariffs legal under the WTO? It seems not, and they are overturning 70 years of global leadership
  48. As Australia looks to join a coalition in Iran, the risks are many
  49. One in 10 Aussie kids care for someone with a disability or drug dependence – they need help at school
  50. why do I sometimes forget what I was just going to say?

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