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We need a single list of all life on Earth – and most taxonomists now agree on how to start
Only after a species is identified and listed by taxonomists can it be protected. Yet we still don’t have one globally agreed-upon list of every species. A new 74-nation survey points to the solution.
View from The Hill: is the political system letting down the Australian public?
At a time when many are disillusioned with politics, Michelle Grattan’s Speakers Lecture explores how the political system is letting down the Australian public and how it can do better.
Two questions, hundreds of scientists, no easy answers: how small differences in data analysis make huge differences in results
246 scientists looked at the same data sets and drew very different conclusions.
Is Australia in the grips of a youth crime crisis? This is what the data says
Certain offences have shown increases in Victoria, NSW and Queensland over the past couple years, but the overall youth crime trend lines have been declining in the past decade.
Does Australia need dedicated sexual assault courts?
Sexual assault trials can compound a victim/survivors trauma, drag on for years and bring them face to face with their attacker. Is having dedicated sexual assault courts the answer?
We discovered three new species of marsupial. Unfortunately, they're already extinct
We found three previously unknown species of mulgaras hiding in museum collections – but all three have been driven to extinction since European colonisation of Australia.
Will the Israel-Hamas war become a regional conflict? Here are 4 countries that could be pivotal
Countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Qatar all have a stake in the outcome of the war – but none want to be actively involved in fighting.
A red card could ruin the Rugby World Cup final – the game needs fairer, safer rulings on the field
A conflict resolution expert – and rugby fan – explains how the game can restore spectacle and avoid farcical and dangerous mismatches due to players being sent off.
Ping-pong diplomacy: Australian table tennis players return to China, five decades after historic tour
Now in their 70s and 80s, the team recalls being labelled as communists in Australia after their trip. But what mattered most to them was friendship.
Despite its inflammatory rhetoric, Iran is unlikely to attack Israel. Here's why
Iran’s direct entry in the Israel-Hamas war could have military and political repercussions that would prove too risky for the ruling regime.
Most data lives in the cloud. What if it lived under the sea?
Could the data centres that power the internet be moved to the bottom of the ocean? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
Grattan on Friday: Cost-of-living crisis is the dragon the government can't slay
Wednesday’s September-quarter figures, showing inflation is still uncomfortably high, set off speculation about whether the Reserve Bank will increase interest rates again
Bruce Lehrmann named as the 'high profile' figure in Toowoomba rape allegation
Lehrmann is charged with two counts of rape alleged to have occurred in Toowoomba in October 2021.
Drug detection dogs often get it wrong, and it's a policing practice that needs to stop
New research shows that not only is the use of drug detection dogs ineffective, it may in fact increase the risk of drug-related harm.
Legal in one state, a crime in another: laws banning hate symbols are a mixed bag
Queensland is the latest state bring in laws banning neo-Nazi and far-right symbols, but no one knows yet precisely what will be banned. Here’s how the laws differ across the country.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Don Farrell's high noon for European free trade deal, and hopes for lobster exports to China
In this podcast, the Minister for Trade and Special Minister of State Don Farrell joins The Conversation to canvass Australia's prospective trade agreement with the EU, relations with China, and electoral reform