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Editor's note
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With just days to go before the same-sex marriage postal vote closes, more than three-quarters of the survey papers sent out have been returned.
Early on the polls had the Yes campaign out in front, but a study that’s looked at the thousands of Tweets posted on the issue last month shows it could actually be a very close result.
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Michael Lund
Deputy Editor: Science + Technology
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Top story
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An Australian Bureau of Statistics postal vote for marriage law reform, yes or no.
AAP Image/Sam Mooy
David Tuffley, Griffith University; Bela Stantic, Griffith University
Plenty of debate on Twitter about the marriage reform survey, and data from that can be crunched to predict the result. So what is it?
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Politics + Society
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Lillian De Bortoli, Swinburne University of Technology; Margaret Nixon, Swinburne University of Technology
Parents killing their children is uncommon, but there are some risk factors around the crime such as mental illness, previous abuse and domestic violence.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Stephen Parry's departure is feeding into the current's tensions between the Nationals and the Liberals.
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David Smith, University of Sydney
Neither the spurious 'facts' about killings of police nor the supposedly 'colour-blind' logic of the backlash against Black Lives Matter hold up under scrutiny. Instead, they confirm its point.
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Arts + Culture
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Sabine Cotte, University of Melbourne
In 1983, Mirka Mora painted a 21-metre mural in the forecourt of the Perth Concert Hall. The story of this remarkable painting's creation is fascinating.
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Colleen Nordstrom, La Trobe University
Australia has few public rituals around death, leaving people to figure out how to process grief alone. But Mexico's Day of the Dead, with its focus on art and community, could help us cope better.
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Business + Economy
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Dimaz Wijaya, Monash University
A digital Australian dollar could remove the role of middlemen and creates a cheaper electronic currency system, while at the same time enabling the government to fully regulate the system.
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Health + Medicine
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Anna Collins, University of Melbourne
Our study found people held narrow, often inaccurate and outdated understandings of palliative care.
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Cities
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Rob Roggema, University of Technology Sydney
A massive residential development in a flood-prone inner-city suburb sounds like a recipe for disaster. But good urban design can deliver higher density and reduce the flood risk.
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Environment + Energy
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Aparna Lal, Australian National University; Rebecca Colvin, Australian National University
Extreme weather events are inevitably followed by disease outbreaks. So why not team health professionals with climate experts?
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Blake Chapman, The University of Queensland
Fatal shark bites are very rare. But the stats do suggest that the likelihood of an attack proving fatal is higher in Australia - probably because our waters are home to the "big three" dangerous species.
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Science + Technology
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Jenny Graves, La Trobe University
Like it or not, evidence now shows that men and women differ genetically far more profoundly that we previously recognised. An analysis from the 2017 winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science.
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