In the third volume of The Official History of ASIO series, historians Dr John Blaxland and Dr Rhys Crawley examine the organisation's role in the years leading to the end of the Cold War.
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In a globalised world, the credibility of the birthright lottery as grounds for excluding people from protection may be diminishing.
With gas prices high, coal-fired power has been increasing, which is bad news for carbon emissions.
In the absence of any more sophisticated options, drug consumers are resorting to drug testing kits they can access themselves.
The uneven provisioning of poker machines across Victoria may be contributing to the incidence of domestic violence in areas with many poker machines.
For more than three decades an egg found in a remote Australian desert was thought to be from a rare nocturnal parrot. So what happened when scientists decided to double-check?
A report from Habitat III in Ecuador, where 50,000 delegates are trying to change the world.
On Q&A, panellists duelled over the numbers of migrants Australia takes a year. Is it 200,000 or 800,000? How many permanent and how many temporary? Let’s check the facts.
More needs to be done to protect women against sexual violence perpetrated in war.
There were seven highly regarded and qualified women who could have been selected as the next UN secretary-general. So why did the job go to another man?
The Paris Agreement will come into force on November 4. Will Australia be part of the pack?
Australia has the third largest marine jurisdiction in the world, a vast ocean territory that contains important natural and biological resources. And it needs protecting.
Storage is the issue politicians must deal with if we are to transition away from coal and gas based power generation.
Freezing light in mid-air isn’t just the realm of Star Wars, as new research shows. But what do you do with the light once it’s trapped? One option is to use it to develop new forms of computers.
South Australia is recovering from a state-wide blackout, and fingers are pointing at the state’s renewable energy industry and climate change.
Under proposed changes, the war crime offence of murder, in a non-international armed conflict, would not apply to collateral civilian deaths resulting from an otherwise lawful attack.
Australia is pumping 6.5 times more carbon into the atmosphere than the land can absorb.
After record-breaking amounts of sea ice in Antartica, this year we’re seeing record lows.
Donald Trump’s confusion about rights is perhaps no greater than that of many people, who are given little reason by political leaders to understand rights seriously.
Manuka honey could prevent serious urinary tract infections caused by catheters – tubes used to drain patients’ bladders, new laboratory research has found.
Authors
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Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Psychology, Australian National University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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PhD student, Department of International Relations, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of History, School of History, ANU, Australian National University
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PhD Candidate, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University
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Deputy Director, Global Institute for Women's Leadership, Australian National University
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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DECRA/Research Fellow, Climate Science, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Restorative Justice, Australian National University
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Researcher, Sign on Screen Project, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Anthropology, Australian National University
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Emeritus Professor of History, Australian National University
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Associate Lecturer, Australian National University; Deakin University