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China’s falling space station highlights the problem of space junk crashing to Earth

  • Written by: Brad E Tucker, Astrophysicist, Australian National University
China’s falling space station highlights the problem of space junk crashing to EarthChina's Tiangong-1 space station is due to hit Earth, and Australia is in the crash landing zone.Cindy Zhi/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Any day now, the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is expected to fall back to Earth – but it’s uncertain where it will crash land. We know that Australia is in the potential zone, and we have been hit...

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What happens when companies remove expiry dates on gift cards?

  • Written by: Saurav Dutta, Head of School at the School of Accounting, Curtin University
What happens when companies remove expiry dates on gift cards?giftcardsWikimedia, CC BY

From April 1 onwards, new Woolworths gift cards will no longer have an expiry date, and all gift cards sold in New South Wales will have a three-year minimum expiry date. But these policies aren’t a clear win for either consumers or retailers.

Consumers will get more flexibility from the elimination of expiry dates,...

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With affection and humour, Patricia Piccinini probes the boundaries of human and other

  • Written by: Chari Larsson, Lecturer of art history, Griffith University
With affection and humour, Patricia Piccinini probes the boundaries of human and otherPatricia Piccinini, Kindred 2017, Silicone, fibreglass, hair, Ed. 1 of 3, 103 x 95 x 128cm Courtesy the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco. Natasha Harth, QAGOMA.

Patricia Piccinini’s sculptures are deeply disquieting. Walking through Curious Affection, her new solo...

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Africa's great migrations are failing but there is a solution

  • Written by: Penny van Oosterzee, Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
Africa's great migrations are failing but there is a solutionA Wildebeeste, or GnuWikimedia Commons

Until I went to southern Africa last year, I couldn’t imagine an African savanna without its awe-inspiring migrations. But Africa’s plains are increasingly empty of wildlife. My subsequent investigation showed that fences are marching across the savannas instead.

An audit of 24 large mammal species,...

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  1. Government defers company tax cut vote for want of numbers
  2. Is counter-attack justified against a state-sponsored cyber attack? It's a legal grey area
  3. The West increases pressure with diplomatic expulsions, but Russia is unlikely to cave
  4. Why schools become battlegrounds during conflict
  5. Start resetting your kids' body clocks before daylight saving ends – here's how
  6. Australia would be better if we'd heeded Pauline Hanson's message more: Tony Abbott
  7. Rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment: what’s the difference?
  8. What governments can learn from Perth's property market
  9. Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own
  10. Australia expels two Russian spies as part of international push against Russia
  11. Climate policy is a fiendish problem for governments – time for an independent authority with real powers
  12. Why Australians need a national environment protection agency to safeguard their health
  13. Men and young people more likely to be ageist: study
  14. Kids with autism less likely to be fully vaccinated
  15. Darwin's paying the price after Cyclone Marcus
  16. when religious freedom and LGBTI rights intersect
  17. Lisa Reihana's Emissaries is a vital retelling of colonial history
  18. how elite schools are struggling with the pressure to excel
  19. Pensioners would retain cash refunds on franked dividends under Labor backdown
  20. Why China is a leader in intellectual property (and what the US has to do with it)
  21. We're still playing catch up with academia's longstanding #MeToo sexual harassment problem
  22. The day Australian cricket lost its integrity and a country reacted with shock and anger
  23. How birth interventions affect babies' health in the short and long term
  24. Future 'ocean cities' need green engineering above and below the waterline
  25. Full response from a spokesperson for Paul Fletcher for a FactCheck on electricity prices and renewable energy policy
  26. are South Australia's high electricity prices 'the consequence' of renewable energy policy?
  27. Australia should steer clear of the sanction fight between the US and China
  28. satirist Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin
  29. Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin reveals the anxieties of team Putin
  30. why ball tampering is cheating
  31. The off-topic Conversation #157
  32. how some NZ brands are shortchanging domestic customers
  33. Coalition trails 47-53% in 29th consecutive Newspoll loss
  34. Should lab-grown meat be labelled as meat when it's available for sale?
  35. You're paying too much for electricity, but here's what the states can do about it
  36. Sexual harassment is too much – and not enough – about sex
  37. Is it true that male seahorses give birth?
  38. Low attendance in Year 7 may mean you're less likely to finish school
  39. Your asthma puffer is probably contributing to climate change, but there's a better alternative
  40. Is it a surprise women aren't keen on investing when the stock market language is so male oriented?
  41. what are authorities so afraid of?
  42. Vikings exhibit hangs up the sword, and gives us a welcome insight into domestic life
  43. Some 'bloody' rocket science gives Pacific Rim Uprising an extra lift
  44. Michelle Grattan on musical chairs in the Senate
  45. Not getting a social licence to operate can be a costly mistake, as coal seam gas firms have found
  46. My Favourite Album: Dead Letter Circus’s Aesthesis
  47. Post-truth politics and why the antidote isn't simply 'fact-checking' and truth
  48. Google and Facebook cosy up to media companies in response to the threat of regulation
  49. Native forest protections are deeply flawed, yet may be in place for another 20 years
  50. The way banks are organised makes it hard to hold directors and executives criminally responsible

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