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Editor's note
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Turkey has wasted little time launching an attack on northern Syria, just days after President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw US troops from the region.
So what is it Turkey wants? Mehmet Ozalp writes that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has three main issues in mind in moving his troops further into Syria. The first is the prospect of the free Kurdish states near its borders inspiring the sizeable Kurdish populations in the south east of Turkey to seek the same. The second is the reported 3.5 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey, with many within Turkey now calling for them to be
returned. And Erdogan’s third aim is an investment in his re-election prospects.
Whatever happens next, there is obviously much at stake, including for Turkey itself, which risks being drawn into the long-running Syrian civil war. Kurdish populations in Turkey may then become involved, threatening Turkey with what it fears the most – a Kurdish insurrection within its own borders.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Top stories
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Turkish armoured vehicles drive down a road during a military operation in Kurdish areas of northern Syria.
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Mehmet Ozalp, Charles Sturt University
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, Turkey may be sinking deeper in the Syrian conflict.
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Australia’s overall emissions are rising, high electricity prices remain a burden, and there is nervousness about the summer power supply.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The climate policy has become an article of faith within Labor, and among many supporters. It's also a policy that in the election split voters Labor needed, attracting some but driving away others.
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It can be difficult to get pain from endometriosis under control.
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Mike Armour, Western Sydney University; Kenny Lawson, Western Sydney University
Women with endometriosis pay an average of $1,200 in out-of-pocket health costs a year. When you add lost wages and productivity, the costs add up to $30,000 per sufferer every year.
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Josh Adams of Wales scores one of four tries during the Rugby World Cup match between Wales and Fiji on Wednesday. They earned Wales a bonus point.
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Liam Lenten, La Trobe University
The Rugby World Cup an tell us a lot about banking.
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Health + Medicine
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John Jackson, Monash University; Ben Urick, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pharmacies are paid a set amount to dispense most medicines, so the more they dispense, the greater their income. But there's a better way to pay pharmacists and improve health care at the same time.
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Business + Economy
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Kevin Davis, University of Melbourne
Evidence for the prime minister's contention that the banks are "profiteering" is thin on the ground.
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Environment + Energy
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Fabio Mattioli, University of Melbourne; Kari Dahlgren, London School of Economics and Political Science
Labor will not win an election by cozying up to coal or weakening its climate target. Instead, it must find the common ground uniting workers in the cities and the regions - job insecurity.
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Education
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Peter Young, Griffith University
A work placement is integral to a degree in social work. But many people who have a history with the justice system would be denied a working with children check, which most placements require.
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Science + Technology
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Keith Chappell, The University of Queensland
Koala retrovirus is a menace to koalas, but by watching it at work scientists are finding out how the genome defends itself
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Mark Blaskovich, The University of Queensland
Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough and Akira Yoshino created a safe, light, rechargeable battery that has revolutionised society and is probably powering the device you're reading this on right now.
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Arts + Culture
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Jacinta Koolmatrie, Flinders University
The Flinders Ranges in South Australia is Adnyamathanha Country. A country of 600 million-year-old fossils and 45,000-year-old living culture.
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Jo Caust, University of Melbourne
Among growing feelings of despair in the Australian arts sector, more than 700 leading artists and arts-workers have signed a petition calling for the Major Performing Arts framework to be abolished.
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Cities
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Rebecca Bentley, University of Melbourne; Hannah Badland, RMIT University
We just need shops, cafes and other services within easy reach to get us walking extra minutes in our busy days.
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David Kelly, Deakin University; Kate Shaw, University of Melbourne; Libby Porter, RMIT University
It's time to tackle the shortage of public housing head-on, rather than skirt around the problem. Public housing is the single most cost-effective way to turn around the rise in homelessness.
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Politics + Society
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Writing in the American progressive journal Democracy, Swan, a former treasurer, warned that the US Democrats could be at risk of the overloaded agenda trap that helped defeat the ALP in May.
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Meanwhile, the polls indicated that support for impeachment has shifted markedly, with most Americans now supporting it.
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