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Palmer's party has good support in Newspoll seat polls, but is it realistic?

  • Written by: Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Palmer's party has good support in Newspoll seat polls, but is it realistic?Support for Clive Palmer's UAP in recent polls is likely overstated.AAP/Dave Hunt

With 23 days to go until the May 18 election, Newspoll had seat polls of Herbert, Lindsay, Deakin and Pearce. All four polls were conducted April 20 from samples of 500-620. Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) had the support of 5% in Deakin, 7% in...

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Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics as it tries to restore the universe

  • Written by: Michael Milford, Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics as it tries to restore the universeEven Thanos has a retirement plan...Marvel Studios

At the end of Avengers: Infinity War half the people (including heroes and villains) in the universe were gone in the snap of a finger from Thanos (Josh Brolin).

So how can Avengers: Endgame (in cinemas from this week) try to bring them back?

Well, with that tried and tested movie plot device: time...

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Psychedelics to treat mental illness? Australian researchers are giving it a go

  • Written by: Martin Williams, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
Psychedelics to treat mental illness? Australian researchers are giving it a goResearch has shown psychedelic drugs can have a positive effect on a range of mental health conditions, but there are side effects.From shutterstock.com

An estimated one in ten Australians were taking antidepressants in 2015. That’s double the number using them in 2000, and the second-highest rate of antidepressant use among all OECD...

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capturing the reverberations of loss

  • Written by: Kevin Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
capturing the reverberations of lossNettie Palmer's ’s 1916 poem, Birds, was a love song from a wife to a soldier-husband.photographer unknown. State Library of Victoria

Just as fiction’s George Smiley made sense of the world - and even made his baffling way about a world at war through knowing the works of minor German poets - our own very real Michael Sharkey (who has...

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  2. Caroline Fisher on the spin machines of #AusVotes19
  3. What happens now we've found the site of the lost Australian freighter SS Iron Crown, sunk in WWII
  4. Telling the forgotten stories of Indigenous servicemen in the first world war
  5. Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostable
  6. House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come
  7. Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it
  8. how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia
  9. Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar
  10. The government and tech companies can't prevent 'fake news' during the election – only the public can
  11. Why Pluto is losing its atmosphere: winter is coming
  12. Get set for take-off in electric aircraft, the next transport disruption
  13. Joyce could be facing waves at a judicial inquiry after the election
  14. here's what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks
  15. Never know what to write in your mother’s day card? You need to read this!
  16. Ethnic media are essential for new migrants and should be better funded
  17. Rift between NZ government and aid agency over naming of nurse captured by ISIS
  18. Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the 'disappointing' banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers
  19. Sri Lanka has a history of conflict, but the recent attacks appear different
  20. The budget's dirty secret is the hikes in tax rates you're not meant to know about
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  22. Crackdown on foreign workers is part of Shorten's wages campaign
  23. why the a⁠b⁠s⁠e⁠n⁠c⁠e⁠ ⁠o⁠f⁠ ⁠e⁠v⁠i⁠d⁠e⁠n⁠c⁠e⁠ ⁠can be a useful thing
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  25. MONA's Eat the Problem is possibly well-meaning but ultimately exquisitely elitist
  26. Logged native forests mostly end up in landfill, not in buildings and furniture
  27. Can $55 million get Clive Palmer back into parliamentary game?
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  29. Malcolm Turnbull's home truths on the NEG help Labor in the climate wars
  30. Chris Lilley's Lunatics has deadpan cringe, great dialogue but is more mawkish than outrageous
  31. How the UK is leading the world on flu research, ready to kick in quickly when the next pandemic hits
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  33. the 'ball-tampering' budget trick they don't want you to know about
  34. three things to consider if you're thinking about homeschooling your child
  35. Adani, economics and personality politics
  36. Antibiotic shortages are putting Aboriginal kids at risk
  37. What and where is heaven? The answers are at the heart of the Easter story
  38. What is hell, exactly? We might joke it's other people, but the Bible has a more complicated answer
  39. In Abdul-Rahman Abdullah's Pretty Beach, a fever of stingrays becomes a meditation on suffering
  40. Going to the beach this Easter? Here are four ways we're not being properly protected from jellyfish
  41. a tale of amazing people, amazing creatures and rising seas
  42. how we value the fruits of our labour over instant gratification
  43. Climate change is hitting hard across New Zealand, official report finds
  44. Joko Widodo looks set to win the Indonesia election. Now, the real power struggle begins
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