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Editor's note
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Jacqui Lambie’s resignation from the Senate this week after discovering she held dual citizenship is unlikely to be the last in the ongoing dual citizenship saga.
So now, writes Joe McIntyre, it’s time to recognise that section 44 of our Constitution is no longer fit for purpose, and needs to be changed by referendum as soon as possible.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top story
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Jacqui Lambie bids a tearful farewell in the Senate this week, after becoming the latest politician caught up in the dual citizenship saga.
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Joe McIntyre, University of South Australia
Changing the Constitution is the only way to draw a line under this chaos.
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Politics + Society
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Steven Feldstein, Boise State University
Mugabe and his powerful wife have been overthrown in an apparent coup orchestrated by Zimbabwe's vice president. Will the country transition into democracy or get strapped with yet another dictator?
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Despite its dubious ancestry, the popular vote has done its job, delivering an overall majority and majorities in all states and territories.
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John Keane, University of Sydney
The wars in Syria and Iraq are products of secretive decision-making by the executive. Their disastrous consequences are evidence of the need for war powers reform.
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Becky Batagol, Monash University
The proposed exemption for civil marriage celebrants undermines the aims and nature of Australia’s flourishing civil celebrant program.
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Arts + Culture
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Billy Griffiths, Deakin University; Lynette Russell, Monash University; Richard 'Bert' Roberts, University of Wollongong
Over the past half century, Australia has experienced a 'time revolution' with Indigenous history pushed back into the dizzying expanse of deep time. The latest discovery reminds us that science, like history, is an ongoing inquiry.
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Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia
The makers of Justice League embed the film in a post-9/11, post-global warming, post-Brexit, post-Trump context. But it is loud and disappointing with some genuinely unimaginative action sequences.
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Science + Technology
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Liz Allen, Australian National University
The same-sex marriage postal survey gave Australians a chance to create data for social change. And that's rare.
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Amy Binns, University of Central Lancashire
Facebook's record raises serious questions about whether it can be trusted with our most intimate images.
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Business + Economy
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Maria Yanotti, University of Tasmania
In the US "liar loans" have been identified as one of the key reasons behind the 2008 financial crisis. But how big a problem are poor loan checking practices in Australia?
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Richard Holden, UNSW
The narrative that Australia has "transitioned from the mining boom successfully" seems a lot like wishful thinking.
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Dirk Baur, University of Western Australia; Niels Van Quaquebeke, Kühne Logistics University
You may have imagined the blockchain would lead to a world without governments or institutions veryifying transactions, research shows that it probably won't.
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Health + Medicine
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Gina Ravenscroft, University of Western Australia; Michelle Farrar, UNSW; Nigel Laing, University of Western Australia; Royston Ong, University of Western Australia
Cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X syndrome are serious diseases, and most couples carrying the genetic mutations for these don't know it. Should they all be tested?
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Ronelle Welton, University of Melbourne; Kymble Spriggs, University of Melbourne
While bee sting deaths are rare, bees cause more hospitalisations than any venomous creature.
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Environment + Energy
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Noel D Preece, James Cook University; Penny van Oosterzee, James Cook University
The failed attempt to reinstate land clearing regulations in Queensland has prompted 'panic clearing', pushing Australia into the global top-ten deforesters.
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Cities
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Leila Mahmoudi Farahani, RMIT University; Cristina Garduño Freeman, University of Melbourne; David Beynon, Deakin University; Richard Tucker, Deakin University
Low-density suburbs can cause social isolation that's harmful for individual and community well-being. But research confirms we can plan neighbourhood centres so they become vibrant social hubs.
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Education
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Radhika Gorur, Deakin University; Steven Lewis, Deakin University
NAPLAN is good at measuring some aspects of education, including knowledge difference between demographics, but has not produced a positive effect on student learning outcomes.
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FactCheck
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Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University
Queensland Labor claimed it has 'created 122,500 jobs – more than four times the number of jobs created under the Newman-Nicholls government'. Is that right? We asked the experts.
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