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Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport

  • Written by: Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sportCaster Semenya is legally female, was from birth raised as female and identifies as a female.Jon Connell on flickr , CC BY-NC

This essay is part of our occasional series Zoom Out, where authors explore key ideas in science and technology in the broader context of society and humanity.

Middle-distance runner Caster Semenya will need to take...

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When it came to the surplus, both Bill and Scott were having a lend

  • Written by: Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW

One of the more telling moments in the third and final election debate between Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten on Wednesday night was when moderator Sabra Lane asked if, faced with an economic downturn, both leaders would be able to maintain a budget surplus.

Remarkably, if not at all surprisingly, both leaders said they would.

This is the state of...

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A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?

  • Written by: Christine Adams-Hosking, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
A report claims koalas are 'functionally extinct' – but what does that mean?Koalas are facing serious threats in the wild.Mathias Appel/Flickr

Today the Australian Koala Foundation announced they believe “there are no more than 80,000 koalas in Australia”, making the species “functionally extinct”.

While this number is dramatically lower than the most recent academic estimates, there’s no doubt...

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Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threat

  • Written by: Andy Sheppard, Research Director CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO
Invasive species are Australia's number-one extinction threatBarking Owls are one of Australia’s 1,770 threatened or endangered species. Navin/Flickr, CC BY-SA

This week many people across the world stopped and stared as extreme headlines announced that one eighth of the world’s species – more than a million – are threatened with extinction.

According to the UN report from the...

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  1. Mine are bigger than yours. Labor's surpluses are the Coalition's worst nightmare
  2. Bill Shorten's moment of "connection" brings back memories of Beaconsfield
  3. why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail
  4. 'New low' for journalism? Why News Corp's partisan campaign coverage is harmful to democracy
  5. Creative arts therapies can help people with dementia socialise and express their grief
  6. Man Out of Time and the inheritance of suffering
  7. Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap
  8. Labor and Greens unlikely to win a Senate majority on current polling; Greens jump in Essential poll
  9. You know nothing about rehoming a pet, Jon Snow
  10. why do leaves fall off trees?
  11. Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform
  12. helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children
  13. NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
  14. Why suburban parks offer an antidote to helicopter parenting
  15. Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species
  16. Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
  17. Labor wants to pay childcare wages itself. A perfect storm makes it not such a bad idea
  18. We need to do more about cyberbullying against Indigenous Australians
  19. Why Australia needs to kill cats
  20. How Earth's continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years
  21. Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types
  22. Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders
  23. Shorten and Morrison make their final cases in third leaders' debate: our experts respond
  24. Passenger planes need enough cabin crew to operate all the exits in an emergency
  25. How camp was the Met Gala? Not very
  26. Shorten turns Daily Telegraph sledge to advantage
  27. Indigenous rangers don’t receive the funding they deserve – here's why
  28. Confirmation from NSW Treasury. Labor's negative gearing policy would barely move house prices
  29. There's nothing unfair about dividend imputation -- it refunds tax that shouldn't have been paid
  30. how new technologies are changing police surveillance
  31. It's hard to find out who Labor's dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn't the poor
  32. 3 Charts on the rise in cycling injuries and deaths in Australia
  33. If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?
  34. Labor wants to restore penalty rates within 100 days. But what about the independent umpire?
  35. Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let's use it as a chance to talk
  36. How highly sexualised imagery is shaping 'influence' on Instagram
  37. Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?
  38. Can we bend it? The challenge for Samsung and others to make flexible technology
  39. Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here
  40. are water crystals bad for the environment?
  41. why do we get motion sickness and what's the best way to treat it?
  42. Why Adani's finch plan was rejected, and what comes next
  43. 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age
  44. how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings
  45. Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign
  46. the big tech business model
  47. why don't horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?
  48. how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice
  49. Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology
  50. For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter

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