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The Conversation Australia

Headlines collected from the outlet’s public feed · official site: theconversation.com/au

World’s oldest shipwreck discovered off coast of Turkey

The Conversation Australia · 2 h ago

What was Australia’s first novel?

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

Australian scavengers don’t just eat everything and slink away. They approach a carcass like a buffet

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

Hordes of yabbies are trashing rivers in Africa. How did this happen?

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

NAZA: harrowing documentary shows how killing in Gaza became just another day’s work

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

School teachers are burning out at alarming rates. How can we help keep them happy in their jobs?

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

Australia urgently needs a national bushfire database. Here’s what it could look like

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

It’s no secret drug firms donate to political parties. But it’s still a secret exactly how much, and why

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

Australia has 3 competing migration policies. The problem? None are based in evidence

The Conversation Australia · 4 h ago

Why are there so many plants? New research reveals two key phases in Earth’s past

The Conversation Australia · 14 h ago

Senate throws out budget plan to remove health insurance top up for older people

The Conversation Australia · 15 h ago

View from The Hill: everyone is on the lookout for Albanese-Chalmers tension

The Conversation Australia · 17 h ago

DemosAU MRP poll has Labor winning clear majority of House seats on just 27% of primary vote

The Conversation Australia · 18 h ago

How the ‘digital duty of care’ bill could undermine vital sex and drug education online

The Conversation Australia · 19 h ago

Domestic violence is a national crisis in PNG. The Chiefs NRL team must do more to support women

The Conversation Australia · 20 h ago

Loops, flashbacks and fractured narratives: why filmmakers love to play with time

The Conversation Australia · 20 h ago

By making protests conditional on state approval, governments are eroding our democracy

The Conversation Australia · 21 h ago

Renters and home buyers are seeing AI-‘enhanced’ property photos. Now NSW is changing the rules

The Conversation Australia · 22 h ago

Manifesto of Silences reimagines opera from a Deaf perspective, as a space to process trauma communally

The Conversation Australia · 23 h ago

Our detection dogs are helping protect one of Australia’s most imperiled lizards

The Conversation Australia · 23 h ago

Voters want stronger action on AI. Can NZ afford to keep taking a soft approach?

The Conversation Australia · yesterday

Spawning coral release quintillions of eggs each year: new research

The Conversation Australia · yesterday

What is the Socratic method? Could it be used to test students in an age of AI?

The Conversation Australia · yesterday

How young people do democracy: pausing, questioning, creating and bringing others along with them

The Conversation Australia · yesterday