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More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment

  • Written by: Nathalie Butt, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Queensland

According to records compiled by the campaign group Global Witness, 1,738 people described as environmental defenders were killed between 2002 and 2018, across 50 countries.

Their latest report for 2018, released last week, identified 164 killings

Although the figure is slightly down on that for 2017, the group says the number of reported deaths...

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Australia should explore nuclear waste before we try domestic nuclear power

  • Written by: Heiko Timmers, Associate Professor of Physics, UNSW

Last year Australia sold more than 7,000 tonnes of uranium, at a value of nearly A$600 million.

This uranium produced nearly as much energy as Australia uses in a year, but with less than 10% of the carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations.

Geoscience Australia has estimated Australia could mine up to 1.27 million tonnes of uranium at a...

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footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu

  • Written by: David Hocking, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University
footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menuA wild leopard seal on South Georgia.James Robbins, Author provided

Some people don’t like sharing their food – we all have a friend who gets cranky when you steal a chip from their plate. For wild animals, this makes sense, because any food shared is energy lost that could otherwise have been used to pursue more food.

So it was a big...

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Think your metadata is only visible to national security agencies? Think again

  • Written by: Damien Manuel, Director, Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University

It was bound to happen, and it did. Poorly crafted legislation – designed to allow national security agencies to collect information with the aim of protecting Australians from terrorists – is now reportedly being exploited by a range of different government agencies for other purposes.

It has been widely reported that the Veterinary...

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  4. Indigenous art centres that sustain remote communities are at risk. The VET sector can help
  5. Apartment life for families means living at close quarters, but often feeling isolated too
  6. The National Breastfeeding Strategy is a start, but if we really valued breast milk we'd put it in the GDP
  7. remembering and reflecting on Australia's biggest prison escape 75 years on
  8. Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia's threatened species protection
  9. Australia likely to tick off on US request to help protect shipping in Middle East
  10. Nuclear becomes latest round in energy wars
  11. Albanese says Voice must be in the Constitution
  12. Australia depends less on Chinese trade than some might think
  13. Beefing up security isn't the only way to make hospitals safer
  14. Want to avoid a botched beauty procedure? This is what you need to be wary of
  15. An astronomy expert explains how The Bachelor's research will help us discover new planets
  16. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Labor's hard reality
  17. The Hong Kong protesters have turned militant and more strategic – and this unnerves Beijing
  18. Who is Raheem Kassam? Calls to ban the far-right speaker blur line between free speech and hate speech
  19. How Hong Kong protesters have been winning the battle for public space
  20. International students rank Melbourne and Sydney in world's top cities – but we can make them feel safer
  21. Renters hold the key to low voter turn-out at federal elections
  22. 2℃ of global warming would put pressure on Melbourne's water supply
  23. There's no evidence 5G is going to harm our health, so let's stop worrying about it
  24. the battle for the soul of the US Democrats that's taking place before our eyes
  25. The Australian Dream is must-see for lovers of football and this country
  26. Labor battles to keep warm in a cold climate
  27. High Court challenge in Kooyong and Chisholm unlikely to win, but may still land a blow
  28. Australia can pick up its game and land a Moon mission
  29. What is herd immunity and how many people need to be vaccinated to protect a community?
  30. As question time becomes political theatre, does it still play a vital role in government?
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  37. New Zealand poised to introduce clean car standards and incentives to cut emissions
  38. Don't just blame government and business for the recycling crisis – it begins with us
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  41. High Court challenge to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg under section 44
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  45. A clever operatic adaptation of Oscar and Lucinda is let down by music that fails to captivate
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